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NORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE

EIN 46-3139547 MINNEAPOLIS, MN

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Revenue 2023
$724,482
Expenses 2023
$739,682

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 7074

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

The mission of North Country Food Alliance is to strengthen food sovereignty in the Twin Cities Metro Area. We do this through two main program areas: foodshare and gardening. Our foodshare program rescues overstock food that would otherwise go to waste at farms, grocery stores, and distribution centers, and delivers it to community food shelves and kitchens. We also purchase produce from BIPOC-run farms to share for free with community groups. Our garden program increases access to land for food production and shares fresh, healthy produce with people in the neighborhood. We also educate the public on issues of food waste and food sovereignty.

Activities or mission (Part I)

North Country Food Alliance (NCFA) is a worker-run non-profit that takes action to strengthen food sovereignty in the Twin Cities Metro Area. We share healthy, culturally appropriate food; build community gardens; support local farmers; and reduce commercial and local food waste.

  • The outreach and education program has approximately 12,500 conversations in the Twin Cities Metro raising awareness of commercial food waste. These conversations don't just affect people's view of the world but also drive fellow community members into action. Business owners, store managers, farmers, gardeners, and other people participate with the foodshare and community garden program because of their contact with canvassers. In addition we find and start communication with local nonprofit workers that guide the focus of our work. Our other programs are informed by the outreach program. We educate our neighbors and they return in kind.

    Expenses $3,245

  • Foodshare: We partner with businesses metro wide including but not limited to grocery stores, food coops, distributors, farmers markets, and food production facilities. We take the perishable food products such as fresh produce, meat, bread, and dairy that these businesses would ave to waste without our help. Our workers ensure rapid and safe transportation of the food to Twin Cities nonprofits every weekday. This fiscal year, we rescued 441,337lbs of rescued food from our grocery partners, 54,975lbs of food from farmers markets, and purchased $63,605 worth of food directly from local BIPOC farmers.

    Expenses $638,671 · Grants $538,362

  • Community Gardens: We plant gardens in neighborhoods with restricted access to fresh produce. These gardens give people the opportunity to learn how to grow their own healthy food and provide free produce to folks in the neighborhood. In 2021, we worked with the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to transfer management of this community garden to the Somali American Farmers Association (SAFA). Horn Towers is home to many Somali elders, and SAFA grows East African greens and crops like millet and okra in traditional ways that include regenerative practices. We also manage a garden in North Minneapolis, which has grown to house 24 circular raised beds and 16 rectangular ones. This is the largest it's been since its founding in 2017. In spring 2022, we also started managing the community garden at Walker Church and we also cultivate a plot at the Merriam Station Community Garden in St. Paul.

    Expenses $6,376

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.

  • Samuel Madrigal

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $21,658
    From this org
    $21,658
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alison Hoyer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Devin Lavey

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emma Dubay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Devin Lavey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shannon Nordby

    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
    $724,482
    Expenses
    $739,682
    Contributions
    $724,482
    Grants paid
    $538,362
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $689,415
    Expenses
    $789,538
    Contributions
    $689,415
    Grants paid
    $497,422

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
    $777,268
    Expenses
    $734,248
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,783

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $756,613
    Expenses
    $737,604
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,604

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $567,741
    Expenses
    $486,982
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,240

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.

Grants made

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

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Grants received

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.