BREAD LINE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 73715

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• IN 2025, THE BREAD LINE SERVED 73,580 MEALS FROM ITS DOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN, THE STONE SOUP CAFE. THIS MARKS A 10% INCREASE IN SERVICE OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR, MAKING IT THE BUSIEST YEAR IN THE BREAD LINE'S 42-YEAR HISTORY OF "FEEDING PEOPLE & AFFIRMING LIVES" IN FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. TO MEET THE COMMUNITY NEED, THE BREAD LINE RELIES HEAVILY ON VOLUNTEERS AND FOOD DONATIONS. OVER 200 LOCAL VOLUNTEERS PUT IN OVER 2,500 SHIFTS, SERVING MORE THAN 6,000 HOURS ACROSS THE BREAD LINE'S ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAMS. MUCH OF THE DONATED FOOD USED IN THE BREAD LINE'S ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAMS IS DONATED BY THE FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK. THE REMAINDER COMES FROM INDIVIDUAL FOOD DONORS & AREA BUSINESSES. IN TOTAL, THE BREAD LINE RECEIVED 71,514 POUNDS OF DONATED FOOD - OVER 6,000 MORE POUNDS THAN WERE DONATED THE PREVIOUS YEAR. COMMUNITY MEALS, A FREE DINNER PROGRAM IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY FARMERS MARKET, WAS BROUGHT ON AS AN OFFICIAL PROGRAM OF THE BREAD LINE IN 2025. BREAD LINE STAFF INCREASED WEEKLY MEAL PRODUCTION FOR COMMUNITY MEALS TO 300 MEALS A WEEK THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. THE STONE SOUP COMMUNITY GARDEN CONTINUES TO GROW, EXPANDING THE PERENNIAL "FOOD FOREST" BY ANOTHER EIGHT BEDS & PLANTING APPLE TREES & BERRY BUSHES. THE GARDEN CONTINUES TO MEET ITS ROLLING GOAL OF GROWING ENOUGH FOOD TO SUPPLEMENT THE BREAD LINE'S ANTI-HUNGER WORK WHILE PROVIDING FRESH VEGETABLES TO LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS & ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES.

  Expenses $435,422 · Revenue $100,765

• STONE'S THROW, THE BREAD LINE'S CULINARY TRAINING PROGRAM, GRADUATED SIX ADULT STUDENTS ACROSS TWO COHORTS. BREAD LINE CHEFS ALSO TAUGHT 20 TEENAGERS INCARCERATED IN THE DETENTION WING OF THE FAIRBANKS YOUTH FACILITY. THEY ALSO PROVIDED CULINARY INSTRUCTION TO THE YOUTH PARTICIPANTS AT CALYPSO FARM'S "COMMUNITY ROOTS" PROGRAM & ENGAGED IN PUBLIC OUTREACH WITH COMING DEMONSTRATIONS AT AREA FARMERS MARKETS. KID'S CAFE CREATES A SAFE SPACE FOR ALASKAN CHILDREN TO CONNECT WITH CULINARY OPPORTUNITIES AT THE BREAD LINE. IN 2025, BREAD LINE STAFF COLLABORATED WITH THE FAIRBANKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, CLASSES RANGING FROM 3RD TO 8TH GRADE ACROSS SEVERAL SCHOOLS, THREE SEPARATE GIRL SCOUT TROOPS & INDIVIDUAL ALASKAN FAMILIES. THE KIDS AT KID'S CAFE LEARN IMPORTANT LIFE SKILLS, TRY NEW FOODS, ENGAGE IN VOLUNTEERISM & GAIN CULINARY CONFIDENCE.

  Expenses $161,606 · Revenue $24,617

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,016,790

  Expenses

  $820,309

  Contributions

  $860,076

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $868,970

  Expenses

  $688,631

  Contributions

  $723,350

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $847,009

  Expenses

  $638,246

  Contributions

  $721,478

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $875,561

  Expenses

  $757,797

  Contributions

  $763,129

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2025 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $673,793

  Expenses

  $586,816

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,194,912

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $915,808

  Expenses

  $551,698

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,108,553

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $357,392

  Expenses

  $429,287

  Assets (EOY)

  $750,710

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $397,182

  Expenses

  $519,228

  Assets (EOY)

  $816,652

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $459,637

  Expenses

  $460,388

  Assets (EOY)

  $938,463

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $438,764

  Expenses

  $370,001

  Assets (EOY)

  $938,855

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $428,467

  Expenses

  $337,477

  Assets (EOY)

  $874,131

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $222,331

  Expenses

  $130,542

  Assets (EOY)

  $788,004

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $239,415

  Expenses

  $117,557

  Assets (EOY)

  $731,341

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $251,000

  2022 · Operational Support

• RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC

  $87,895

  2023 · MEETING AN ELEVATED NEED - MEALS & COMMUNITY EVENTS

• INTERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

  $48,022

  2023 · IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR THE HIGHER RISK UNDERSERVED IN THE FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH. ADDRESSED: INDIVIDUALS/FAMILIES WHO FACE FOOD INSECURITY, FINANCIAL INSECURITY, AND HOUSING INSECURITY BY FUNDING WINTER SUPPLIES FOR THOSE ATTENDING THE BREADLINE'S SOUP KITCHEN.

• UNITED WAY OF THE TANANA VALLEY INC

  $38,705

  2022 · General Support

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $21,800

  2023 · HEALTH

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $21,200

  2024 · HEALTH

• NATIVE MOVEMENT

  $20,000

  2024 · RE-GRANT FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $15,600

  2022 · HEALTH

• FORGOOD INC

  $12,427

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $11,642

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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