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TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC

TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,575 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($127,875). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$410k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$142k
Net assets
$-4594
0/7 repeat funders
01What it does

What Toups' Family Meal Inc does

Mission

To alleviate hunger and transportation insecurities by providing essential nourishment to families in need, with a focus on supporting children and individuals facing food insecurity in orleans parish. Recognizing the profound impact of our work, which (cont'd on sch. O) has included serving over 100,000 meals to date, we are steadfast in our commitment to continue our efforts through various initiatives such as our summer meal program, disaster relief, holiday meal distribution, and community outreach in food deserts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. A passion for helping families in need. Summer 2024, we focused on children who rely on the free/reduced school lunches during the school year, and successfully supplemented 70,500 meals from june 6 to august 16, while they were out of classes for the summer break. Fall 2024 season by delivering 600 pumpkins and 1,200 pizzas on october 5th in what we hope will become our annual pumpkin drive. 1,500 people were fed through our thanksgiving initiative, ingredient baskets delivered allowed our families to cook a full holiday meal to their taste. Continuing to grow with the needs of our community we were able to serve over 1800 new orleanians for christmas dinner.

    $419,137 spentof which $130 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $419,137.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 7 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

TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

95% 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 TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC.

90%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

95% of TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL 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 $7k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states.

IL
LA
AL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $142k to it.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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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

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

LA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC?
TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,575 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($127,875). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $141,575 in grants to TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC.
Who is the largest funder of TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC?
THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $127,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 7 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