Wisconsin · Nonprofit
TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC
TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,827 to it, the largest being MAIHAUGEN FOUNDATION INC AGENCY XXXXXX2262 ($71,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $345k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $614k
What Tricklebee Cafe Inc does
Mission
Pay-what-you can community cafe offering healthy meals, food service training, and spiritual nourishment. Summer youth gardening interns. Hosting of free healthy eating workshops each spring for neighbors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Spent $70,604 on food supplies and merchandise in 2025 to prepare meals for over 10,000 customers in our pay-what-you-can cafe. And spent $3,016 in programs 2025.
$73,620 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $73,620.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $420k to $508k (+21%).
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.
62% of TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Rev Christie Melby-Gibbons
Executive director
Board chair
Jasmine Harke
Chairman of the borad
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $34k.
2 of 8 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 TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $327 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
TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRICKLEBEE CAFE 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRICKLEBEE CAFE 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 TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC?
- TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,827 to it, the largest being MAIHAUGEN FOUNDATION INC AGENCY XXXXXX2262 ($71,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $98,827 in grants to TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC?
- MAIHAUGEN FOUNDATION INC AGENCY XXXXXX2262 is the largest funder on record, with $71,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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