Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC
THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,946 to it, the largest being HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ($44,824). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $297k
What The Staples Area Food Shelf Inc does
Mission
The mission of the staples area food shelf is to serve the families in need in our area, whether the need be from lack of work, low income, or disaster. We will carry out this misson without question or criticism of our clients. Our purpose is to serve those in need until their circumstances improve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide food and basic living necessities to those in need to promote a healthy lifestyle.
$109,177 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,177.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $66k to $134k (+103%).
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.
98% of THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $22k.
1 of 4 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 THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 99% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC?
- THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,946 to it, the largest being HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ($44,824). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $72,946 in grants to THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC?
- HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $44,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE STAPLES AREA FOOD SHELF INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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