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VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC

VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,620 to it, the largest being BRAD SETHNESS FOUNDATION ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$322k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$158k
Net assets
$662k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Vilas Food Pantry Inc does

Mission

To provide food to families in need and in emergency situations.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. The food pantry provides emergency food fills for families in need and also provides weekly food fills to economically disadvantaged persons. The pantry serves over 2000 people each year

    $271,503 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $271,503.

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 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($116k)2018 Revenue 101 ($180k) Expenses 102 ($182k) Net assets 98 ($114k)2019 Revenue 112 ($199k) Expenses 101 ($181k) Net assets 114 ($132k)2020 Revenue 106 ($189k) Expenses 102 ($182k) Net assets 120 ($139k)2021 Revenue 188 ($334k) Expenses 124 ($221k) Net assets 218 ($252k)2022 Revenue 164 ($292k) Expenses 93 ($166k) Net assets 326 ($377k)2023 Revenue 130 ($231k) Expenses 91 ($162k) Net assets 386 ($447k)2024 Revenue 135 ($240k) Expenses 108 ($193k) Net assets 434 ($502k)2025 Revenue 189 ($336k) Expenses 128 ($229k) Net assets 531 ($614k)2026 Revenue 181 ($322k) Expenses 154 ($275k) Net assets 572 ($662k)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (154)Net assets (572)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 2021 to 2022, from $252k to $377k (+50%).

$116k
$114k
$132k
$139k
$252k
$377k
$447k
$502k
$614k
$662k
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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
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$440
’17
−$2k
’18
$18k
’19
$7k
’20
$113k
’21
$126k
’22
$69k
’23
$47k
’24
$107k
’25
$47k
’26
25
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.

2017202120222023202420252026
Listed9777555
Joined··+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed··00300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $13k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 VILAS FOOD PANTRY 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

VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

57%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2020 62% · 2021 85% · 2022 85% · 2023 77% — 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

50% of VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.

IL
WI

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 73 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · below the median
Months of reserve25.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 73 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like VILAS FOOD PANTRY 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VILAS FOOD PANTRY 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 VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC?
VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,620 to it, the largest being BRAD SETHNESS FOUNDATION ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $157,620 in grants to VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC?
BRAD SETHNESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VILAS FOOD PANTRY 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 9 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