Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SPOONFULS
SPOONFULS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,334,774 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,379,046). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Spoonfuls does
Mission
Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. Spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and resources where it can have the greatest impact. Spoonfuls is committed to addressing the health, environmental and economic impact that food waste has on our community. Headquarted in boston, ma, Spoonfuls is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Add the following: the plenty program at Spoonfuls will provide beneficiaries and those that they serve with the education, tools and know-how they need to store, prepare and further utilize the food that we deliver to them. The primary goals include fresh, resourceful preparation and the simultaneous efficiency and minimization of kitchen waste and excess.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Delivering food with purpose:in the u.s, one third of all food goes unsold or uneaten.across massachusetts alone, 1 in 3 ma households face food insecurity.Spoonfuls keeps good food from going to waste. Through food recovery and distribution, education, and advocacy, we work to address the health, environmental, and economic impact that wasted food has on people and the planet.since our founding, we have recovered over 40 million pounds of food and distributed it across massachusetts.we source unsold, fresh food (like fruits and veggies, dairy, lean protein, and baked goods) from food retailers like grocery stores, wholesalers, and farms. Our team of food-safety certified drivers delivers, same day, to food programs (like pantries, meal programs, and more) reaching neighbors facing food insecurity.in 2025, we- worked with nearly 400 partners- recovered and distribute over 6.2 m pounds of food (valued at nearly $12,000,000) across the commonwealth and- launched a new route in southeastern ma, focused on bristol county, brockton, and bridgewater.the food we distributed in 2025 reached more than 500,000 people across 75 towns and cities, and our food recovery efforts prevented the…
$14,664,665 spent$35,246 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,664,665.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.2M to $4.4M (+37%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of SPOONFULS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ashley Stanley
Founder/CEO
Board chair
Lisa Fall
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 78 funders, grant income rose $379k → $2.7M.
29 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SPOONFULS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SPOONFULS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SPOONFULS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 24% · 2019 21% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 14% · 2023 5% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
41% of SPOONFULS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of SPOONFULS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SPOONFULS has grown faster than half of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding SPOONFULS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record — $40k federal, $50k state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$40k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SPOONFULS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPOONFULS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPOONFULS?
- SPOONFULS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,334,774 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,379,046). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPOONFULS have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $15,334,774 in grants to SPOONFULS, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPOONFULS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,379,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPOONFULS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 155 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing