Bipoc Foodways Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883661356
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122754327
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,820
- Expenses
- $69,017
- Assets
- $34,377
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Katie Myhre (Board Chair)
- Carol Bouska (Board Treasurer)
- Mary Quinn McCallum (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The educational and charitable purpose of BIPOC Foodways Alliance is to document and disseminate learned histories of cultural food and culinary traditions in order to share the unheard and underrepresented stories of persons including women of color, elders, immigrants, and other historically marginalized individuals. The programs help eliminate prejudice and discrimination, and create unity and empathy between cultures by sharing and recording food stories that have deep cultural legacies attached to them.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, BIPOC Foodways Alliance had a year of growth - hosting an estimated 8-10 Immigrant Kitchen and BFA Table events in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, bringing together audiences of roughly 70 guests per event to share meals and stories with BIPOC home cooks and cultural knowledge keepers. The year's programming represented at least 8-10 distinct cultures and communities, including Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan, Cambodia, Somalia, Hawaii, Mexico, India, and the historic Black Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, centering primarily women, elders, and immigrants as the storytellers. On a digital newsletter - which has grown to over 1,000 subscribers - BFA published approximately 20-25 posts in 2025, including deeply reported cultural food stories, event recaps, newsletters, and a beloved year-end "Favorite Stories" series, collectively archiving more than a dozen individual community narratives. These stories are also distributed on Instagram and YouTube. The year also saw a notable c
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.