How many funders does Standish Food Pantry have?

IRS filings report 7 grantmakers giving $42,973 in grants to Standish Food Pantry, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.

Who is the largest funder of Standish Food Pantry?

Good Shepherd Food Bank is the largest funder on record, with $22,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.

How can an organization like Standish Food Pantry find more funders?

Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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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Maine · Nonprofit

Standish Food Pantry

Standish Food Pantry (Maine) is funded by 7 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $42,973 in grants to it, the largest being Good Shepherd Food Bank ($22,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$625k

Revenue FY2024

Funders on record

$43k

Grants received

$492k

Net assets

5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

Standish Food Pantry's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin5% · below the median

Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,877 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

01The organization over time

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

The base broadened — 2 funders to 4 as grant income moved $6k → $12k.

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'21

'22

'23

'24

total

Good Shepherd Food Bank

$23k

Brooks Family Foundation

$9k

Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc

$8k

Three Desert Winds Foundation

$2k

Murray Family Foundation

$800

Open Society Institute

$750

Amazonsmile FoundationDAF

$73

funders

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Standish Food Pantry’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

Standish Food Pantry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

53%

largest funder

92%

top three

effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 99% · 2023 85% · 2024 64% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

Standish Food Pantry is locally rooted: 55% of its grant income comes from Maine funders.

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

board members

100%

independent

✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Operates in 1 state

Questions and answers

Who funds Standish Food Pantry?: Standish Food Pantry (Maine) is funded by 7 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $42,973 in grants to it, the largest being Good Shepherd Food Bank ($22,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Standish Food Pantry have?: IRS filings report 7 grantmakers giving $42,973 in grants to Standish Food Pantry, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Standish Food Pantry?: Good Shepherd Food Bank is the largest funder on record, with $22,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Standish Food Pantry find more funders?: Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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. view filing

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