Alaska · Nonprofit
THE BREAD LINE INC
THE BREAD LINE INC (Alaska) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,396,196 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($406,763). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $869k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What The Bread Line Inc does
Mission
Feeding people & affirming lives
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, the bread line served 73,580 meals from its downtown soup kitchen, the stone soup cafe. This marks a 10% increase in service over the previous year, making it the busiest year in the bread line's 42-year history of "feeding people & affirming lives" in fairbanks, alaska. To meet the community need, the bread line relies heavily on volunteers and food donations. Over 200 local volunteers put in over 2,500 shifts, serving more than 6,000 hours across the bread line's anti-hunger programs. Much of the donated food used in the bread line's anti-hunger programs is donated by the fairbanks community food bank. The remainder comes from individual food donors & area businesses. In total, the bread line received 71,514 pounds of donated food - over 6,000 more pounds than were donated the previous year. Community meals, a free dinner program in collaboration with the southside community farmers market, was brought on as an official program of the bread line in 2025. Bread line staff increased weekly meal production for community meals to 300 meals a week throughout the summer. The stone soup community garden continues to grow, expanding the perennial "food forest" by another eight…
$435,422 spent$100,765 earned by the program73% of program spendingStone's throw, the bread line's culinary training program, graduated six adult students across two cohorts. Bread line chefs also taught 20 teenagers incarcerated in the detention wing of the fairbanks youth facility. They also provided culinary instruction to the youth participants at calypso farm's "community roots" program & engaged in public outreach with coming demonstrations at area farmers markets. Kid's cafe creates a safe space for alaskan children to connect with culinary opportunities at the bread line. In 2025, bread line staff collaborated with the fairbanks children's museum, big brothers big sisters, classes ranging from 3rd to 8th grade across several schools, three separate girl scout troops & individual alaskan families. The kids at kid's cafe learn important life skills, try new foods, engage in volunteerism & gain culinary confidence.
$161,606 spent$24,617 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $597,028.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $751k to $1.1M (+48%).
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: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Hannah Hill
Executive director
Board chair
Kristina Miller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $24k → $126k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 THE BREAD LINE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
THE BREAD LINE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 THE BREAD LINE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 64% · 2020 55% · 2021 24% · 2022 68% · 2023 31% — 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
54% of THE BREAD LINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
83% of THE BREAD LINE INC's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $684k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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In Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BREAD LINE INC?
- THE BREAD LINE INC (Alaska) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,396,196 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($406,763). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BREAD LINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,396,196 in grants to THE BREAD LINE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BREAD LINE INC?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $406,763 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BREAD LINE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 29 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing