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EMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION ECHO

EIN 41-1429214 MANKATO, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2023
$4,172,698
Expenses 2023
$4,446,345

Program services were 98.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1014 S FRONT ST

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 · 2023

Mission

TO PROVIDE FOOD ASSISTANCE TO HOUSEHOLDS IN NEED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FOOD SHELF TO FACILITATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF DONATED FOOD AND OTHER ITEMS TO PERSONS IN NEED.

  • EMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION, INC. DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO NEEDY PEOPLE. DISTRIBUTED APPROXIMATELY 1,225,470 POUNDS OF FOOD.

    Expenses $4,383,559

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ed Babel

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Dave Schostag

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • John Knox

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Jane Kohler

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Kyle Berry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Diane Deeren

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sara Frederick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Carolyn Hankins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Victoria Hanson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marlene Houg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Suzanne Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    45
  • Kris Madsen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Fr Paul Van De Crommert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,172,698
    Expenses
    $4,446,345
    Contributions
    $4,152,408
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,250,496
    Expenses
    $3,414,816
    Contributions
    $3,209,660
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,558,280
    Expenses
    $3,268,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,896,435
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,204,945
    Expenses
    $4,685,001
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,641,378
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,460,159
    Expenses
    $3,217,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,112,616
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,140,599
    Expenses
    $2,928,923
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,854,656
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,788,612
    Expenses
    $2,748,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,640,772
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,023,831
    Expenses
    $2,926,644
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,611,039
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,476,069
    Expenses
    $2,402,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,521,409
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,055,021
    Expenses
    $2,038,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,456,561
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,100,818
    Expenses
    $1,964,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,423,292
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,746,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,285,650

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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.