Spirit of Matthew 25
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994558336
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Coon Rapids, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7637556990
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,951
- Expenses
- $84,384
- Assets
- $72,823
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sue Lehrer (President & Chair)
People named in this filing
- Sue Lehrer (President & Chair)
- Evelyn Nelson (Vice-chair)
- Tammy Gallagher (Secretary)
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
Spirit of Matthew 25 is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Specifically, the purpose of Spirit of Matthew 25 is to renew hope through generosity and love by offering food to people in need in the region surrounding Coon Rapids, Minnesota, while reducing the environmental impact of food waste.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program goal is to give away food to people in need while reducing the impact of food waste on our environment. In 2025, Spirit of Matthew 25 donated $1.51 million dollars' worth of food and supplies to 36,968 people with the help of 14,062 volunteer hours. The food was acquired via food rescue from our food donation network. In addition to 116 food giveaway events, Spirit of Matthew 25 delivered food monthly to two subsidized apartment complexes, packed culturally relevant food in the backpacks of kids at Mississippi Elementary during the school year, provided snacks to three addiction recovery groups, and provided food and hygiene supplies to the Dignity Pantry at Coon Rapids High School. We also offered 16 community garden plots to the public and had our own garden space to produce food for our giveaways. Our community garden program allowed us to provide 2,300 extra servings of fresh produce at our food giveaway events. 98% of our food is rescued food. We had 52% more visits in 2025 than in 2024. Our food rescue and composting efforts resulted in the avoidance of 628 metric tons of CO2e from being released into the environment. This has an effect equivalent to removing 149 passenger cars from the road for a year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.1%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 70.5%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.1% of revenue deployed · 70.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.