Tennessee · Nonprofit
Trudy's Kid's Cafe
Trudy's Kid's Cafe (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,450 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($91,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $724k
What Trudy's Kid's Cafe does
Mission
"...the corporation is organized for the provision of food to poor, distressed, or underprivileged children and adults through systems and procedures meeting the requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture feeding and nutrition programs..." This is an excerpt from the Trudy's Kids Cafe Charter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
"...the corporation is organized for the provision of food to poor, distressed, or underpriveleged children and adults through systems and procedures meeting the requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture feeding and nutrition programs..." This is an excerpt from the Trudy's Kids Cafe Charter.
$543,125 spent100% of program spending"...the corporation is organized for the provision of food to poor, distressed, or underpriveleged children and adults through systems and procedures meeting the requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture feeding and nutrition programs..." This is an excerpt from the Trudy's Kids Cafe Charter.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $543,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $196k to $724k (+270%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 84% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 98% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Trudy's Kid's Cafe’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $27k.
From the IRS filings of Trudy's Kid's Cafe’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
Trudy's Kid's Cafe leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 Trudy's Kid's Cafe.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 87% — 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
Trudy's Kid's Cafe draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Trudy's Kid's Cafe runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Trudy's Kid's Cafe
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Trudy's Kid's Cafe: 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 Trudy's Kid's Cafe?
- Trudy's Kid's Cafe (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,450 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($91,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Trudy's Kid's Cafe have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $105,450 in grants to Trudy's Kid's Cafe, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Trudy's Kid's Cafe?
- SHARE OUR STRENGTH is the largest funder on record, with $91,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Trudy's Kid's Cafe find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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