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The Soup Kitchen Inc

The Soup Kitchen Inc (Florida) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,049,325 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($1,340,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.8M
Funders on record
67
Grants received
$6.0M
Net assets
$4.1M
36/67 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Soup Kitchen Inc does

Mission

Aid to disadvantaged people through the provision and distribution of food, baby supplies, education, immunizations, and other items at no cost to all who seek aid.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided food and supplies for the economically disadvantaged. For the year 200,000 hot meals were provided to over 90,000 families. In addition, 250,000 bags of groceries were distributed to needy individuals and families. Received donations of diapers, Thanksgiving turkeys, Christmas gifts, and other items valued at approximately $2,000,000 which were distributed free of charge to needy individuals and families.

    $1,864,435 spent
    85% of program spending
  2. Provided 41,000 meals and 22,750 snacks to home bound individuals through the organizations Meals on Wheels program.

    $311,470 spent
    14% of program spending
  3. Provided baby supplies, education, and new beginnings to 2,560 mothers and children through the organizations Taking Care of Our Babies program.

    $13,161 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. The program LiftUP takes care of aging out of foster care & young adults 18-25 who do not live with birth parents.

    $4,387 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,193,453.

02The 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 ($503k) Expenses 100 ($547k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 115 ($579k) Expenses 103 ($561k) Net assets 102 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 408 ($2.0M) Expenses 121 ($659k) Net assets 222 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 175 ($880k) Expenses 126 ($691k) Net assets 246 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 322 ($1.6M) Expenses 131 ($714k) Net assets 336 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 302 ($1.5M) Expenses 178 ($975k) Net assets 341 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 2783 ($14M) Expenses 2676 ($15M) Net assets 306 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 1550 ($7.8M) Expenses 1422 ($7.8M) Net assets 315 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 547 ($2.8M) Expenses 459 ($2.5M) Net assets 357 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (547)Expenses (459)Net assets (357)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $2.5M (+119%).

$1.1M
$1.2M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$3.8M
$3.9M
$3.5M
$3.6M
$4.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of The Soup Kitchen Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,200 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$44k
’17
$18k
’18
$1.4M
’19
$188k
’20
$904k
’21
$543k
’22
−$636k
’23
$22k
’24
$243k
’25
1.9
months of
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

Marlene Mejia

Chief Executive Officer Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed71111101110101010
Joined·+5+0+2+2+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·10314000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $246k → $531k.

12 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Soup Kitchen Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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 Soup Kitchen Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

22%
largest funder
53%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 74% · 2019 26% · 2020 32% · 2021 51% · 2022 56% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.

“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

57% of The Soup Kitchen Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

54% of The Soup Kitchen Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
RI
MO
VA
DE
TN
NC
TX
FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $574k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Soup Kitchen Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & 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 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 Soup Kitchen Inc?
The Soup Kitchen Inc (Florida) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,049,325 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($1,340,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Soup Kitchen Inc have?
IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $6,049,325 in grants to The Soup Kitchen Inc, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Soup Kitchen Inc?
LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Soup Kitchen Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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