- Revenue 2024
- $44,691,635
- Expenses 2024
- $46,016,758
Program services were 98.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- X20
- Classification
- 7000
- Street
- 5833 PECAN 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 · 2024
Mission
The Organization's primary mission is to distribute surplus food to Midwest communities, particularly in rural areas.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Distribute surplus food to Midwest rural communities
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Ruby's Pantry:The Organization runs a food distribution program that distributes donated corporate surplus food through over 87 church-sponsored distribution sites in the Midwest. In 2024, there were 241,967 families served in these distributions; 19,571,202 pounds of food received from donors. As is our practice, $603,284 was donated to sponsoring churches to be used for benevolence and other expenses.
Expenses $45,036,602 · Grants $40,627,544 · Revenue $186,926
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Ruby's Second Hand:The Organization operates a thrift store in Siren, WI that provides donated clothing and other items at low prices. It also has a program where teachers from the local school district that the Organization serves can send home a list for students in need of clothing, and Ruby's Second Hand will fill the order without cost.
Expenses $208,597 · Revenue $219,103
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Nicole Schwidder
Chair, Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Megan Griffin
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Garrett Novak
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Charles Schreffler
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Kimberly Brown
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
RoxAnn Sahr
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $89,718
- From this org
- $78,826
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,892
- Hours/week
- 40
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $44,691,635
- Expenses
- $46,016,758
- Contributions
- $44,158,899
- Grants paid
- $40,627,544
-
2023
- Revenue
- $48,496,469
- Expenses
- $45,509,160
- Contributions
- $47,601,500
- Grants paid
- $39,662,804
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2022
- Revenue
- $41,562,771
- Expenses
- $40,813,747
- Contributions
- $40,814,611
- Grants paid
- $35,724,746
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
- $42,419,971
- Expenses
- $41,271,719
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,723,249
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $52,113,051
- Expenses
- $51,047,859
- Assets (EOY)
- $21,493,426
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $41,245,055
- Expenses
- $40,362,089
- Assets (EOY)
- $20,434,609
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $33,748,774
- Expenses
- $34,796,321
- Assets (EOY)
- $19,467,965
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $28,139,396
- Expenses
- $30,814,411
- Assets (EOY)
- $19,236,621
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $27,784,889
- Expenses
- $27,649,302
- Assets (EOY)
- $22,098,990
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $27,079,829
- Expenses
- $24,772,727
- Assets (EOY)
- $21,260,548
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
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Hilltop Community Church
$34,978
2022 Donation
-
2022 Food donation
-
Eagles Duluth
$0
2022 Food Donation
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Rush City
$0
2022 Food donation
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The Giving Tree
$0
2022 Food donation
-
Ally Force Ministries
$0
2022 Food donation
-
2023 Food donation
-
Cerro Gordo Veterans Affairs
$0
2023 Food donation
-
2023 Food donation
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The Giving Tree
$0
2023 Food donation
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
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$30,000
2023 SUPPORT EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 FOOD, AGRICULTURE & NUTRITION
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$7,200
2022 RUBY'S FOOD SHELF, GENERAL OPERATING
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$7,000
2024 RELIGION
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 TO PROVIDE HEALTHY FRESH PRODUCE TO FAMILIES IN NEED
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LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
no cash amount reported
2023 RELIEF
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LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
no cash amount reported
2024 RELIEF
-
LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
no cash amount reported
2022 RELIEF
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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.