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THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC

THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,441,371 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($1,108,920). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2024
54
Funders on record
$2.4M
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
35/54 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%

Against its field

THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($906k)2018 Revenue 95 ($1.4M) Expenses 95 ($1.5M) Net assets 93 ($847k)2019 Revenue 101 ($1.5M) Expenses 90 ($1.4M) Net assets 106 ($957k)2020 Revenue 174 ($2.6M) Expenses 108 ($1.7M) Net assets 207 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 180 ($2.7M) Expenses 120 ($1.9M) Net assets 296 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 167 ($2.5M) Expenses 137 ($2.1M) Net assets 335 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 159 ($2.4M) Expenses 139 ($2.2M) Net assets 359 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 150 ($2.2M) Expenses 127 ($2.0M) Net assets 387 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (127)Net assets (387)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$68k
17
$59k
18
$110k
19
$917k
20
$806k
21
$354k
22
$216k
23
$257k
24
5.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $123k → $345k.

11 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)71% 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 SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC.

45%
largest funder
67%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 47% · 2019 59% · 2020 58% · 2021 51% · 2022 42% · 2023 45%broadly stable.

“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

68% of THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $717k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 15 states.

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
VA
NC
TX
FL

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

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 54 funders put you typical 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.

Organizations like THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC?
THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,441,371 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($1,108,920). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $2,441,371 in grants to THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC?
Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $1,108,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 54funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing