Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Capital Area Food Bank Inc
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
- $79M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $923k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 65
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $100M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Capital Area Food Bank Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionHealthHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 66 | $923k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $1.1M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $1.0M | 77% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $16M | 98% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $27M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2.5M | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Food & Nutrition$48MReligion$1.4MHuman Services$583kHousing & Shelter$174kCommunity Improvement$169kHealth$144kInternational$136kPublic Safety & Disaster$81kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank Foundation | $46,500,000 | 4 | 98% |
| Urban Outreach Inc | $261,490 | 4 | 63% |
| The Salvation Army | $153,372 | 4 | n/a |
| New Hope and Life Church of God Inc | $115,319 | 4 | n/a |
| Icna Relief USA Programs Inc | $101,689 | 3 | 0% |
| St Anthony of Padua Catholic Church | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Plenty to Eat Inc | $95,900 | 2 | 81% |
| Saint Stephens Baptist Church | $80,967 | 3 | n/a |
| Shabach Ministries Inc | $78,852 | 4 | 1% |
| No Limit Outreach Ministries Inc | $74,500 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 151 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank Foundation | $46,500,000 | 4 | 98% |
| Urban Outreach Inc | $261,490 | 4 | 63% |
| The Salvation Army | $153,372 | 4 | n/a |
| New Hope and Life Church of God Inc | $115,319 | 4 | n/a |
| Icna Relief USA Programs Inc | $101,689 | 3 | 0% |
| St Anthony of Padua Catholic Church | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Plenty to Eat Inc | $95,900 | 2 | 81% |
| Saint Stephens Baptist Church | $80,967 | 3 | n/a |
| Shabach Ministries Inc | $78,852 | 4 | 1% |
| No Limit Outreach Ministries Inc | $74,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Community Health Foundation In | $70,500 | 3 | 63% |
| Rising Hope United Methodist Church | $70,396 | 2 | 3% |
| Mother of Light Center | $65,664 | 4 | 2% |
| Community Outreach and Development | $63,634 | 4 | 16% |
| Friends of Douglass Cc | $63,444 | 3 | n/a |
| Royal Missionary Baptist Church of USA | $60,162 | 2 | n/a |
| The Upcounty Hub Inc | $57,000 | 2 | 1% |
| House of Mercy | $56,932 | 4 | 0% |
| Alexander Memorial Baptist Church | $54,816 | 3 | n/a |
| Nourish Now Foundation Inc | $50,017 | 3 | 1% |
| Harvest Intercontinental Ministries Unlimited | $48,988 | 3 | n/a |
| Thrive DC | $47,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Purity Baptist Church | $47,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mission of Love Charities Inc | $46,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ebenezer COG Community Outreach Ministries | $42,700 | 2 | 26% |
| Washington Spanish Bilingual Seventh-Day Adventist Church | $39,727 | 3 | n/a |
| Sixth Presbyterian Church | $39,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Extended Hands Inc | $38,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chrisma Charities Inc | $38,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Thomas United Methodist Church | $37,587 | 3 | n/a |
| No Limits Outreach Ministries Inc | $37,145 | 1 | n/a |
| Bishop Alfred Owens Jr Family Life | $37,064 | 3 | n/a |
| YWCA National Capital Area | $34,357 | 4 | 2% |
| General Council on Finance & Admins of the United | $33,117 | 1 | n/a |
| Builders Inc | $32,645 | 2 | n/a |
| Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc | $32,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Fairfax Christian Ministries | $31,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Action in Community Through Service of Prince William | $31,102 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington Inc | $29,890 | 2 | n/a |
| Church of the Atonement | $29,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Christ House | $29,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family and Medical Counseling Service Inc | $27,518 | 2 | 0% |
| The ARK Foundation | $27,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Royalhouse Chapel International | $27,065 | 2 | n/a |
| Martha's Table Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Faith Village of Greater Laurel | $26,952 | 2 | n/a |
| Church of the Living God-Full Gospel Ministries Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nourishing Bethesda Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| United Community Ministries Inc | $24,267 | 1 | 0% |
| Mid-County United Ministries Inc | $24,007 | 2 | 4% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Islamic Relief USA | $22,345 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornerstones Inc | $22,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Holy Mountain International Ministries | $20,759 | 3 | n/a |
| Christian & Missionary Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Covenant House Washington DC | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Celestial Church of Christ-Majemu Parish | $19,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Church of the Epiphany | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| N Street Village Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Francis on the Hill in Washington DC Onl | $19,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Doorways for Women and Families Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Some Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 0% |
| House of Ruth | $19,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church | $18,344 | 2 | n/a |
| Lifehouse Church | $17,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Lorton Community Action Center Inc | $17,704 | 2 | 0% |
| Grace Baptist Church of Bowie Maryland | $17,329 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Multi Services Inc | $16,885 | 2 | 0% |
| Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Inc (AMURT) | $16,810 | 2 | 2% |
| So What Else Inc | $16,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Centreville United Methodist Church | $16,320 | 2 | n/a |
| Laurel Advocacy & Referral Services Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Seneca Creek Community Church | $15,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Gaithersburg Help Inc | $15,285 | 2 | 1% |
| Mount Rainier Seventh Day Adventist Spanish Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holiness Tabernacle Church of God in Christ Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allen Chapel a M E Church Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cottage City Mennonite Church | $14,987 | 1 | n/a |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | $14,944 | 2 | n/a |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $14,795 | 1 | 0% |
| Freedom Community Church | $14,237 | 2 | n/a |
| City of David Ministries | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Impact One Church | $13,911 | 2 | n/a |
| Hughes Wheaton United Methodist Church | $13,078 | 2 | n/a |
| Fort Foote Baptist Church | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Divine Grace Mission World Outreach | $12,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Union Mission | $12,400 | 2 | 0% |
| General Assembly of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ Inc | $12,349 | 1 | n/a |
| ALIVE Inc | $12,292 | 2 | 0% |
| Reaching the World Community Development Inc | $12,200 | 1 | 16% |
| Saint Paul United Methodist Church | $12,150 | 2 | n/a |
| She Believes in Me | $11,442 | 1 | 2% |
| Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington | $11,152 | 1 | n/a |
| Haymarket Regional Food Pantry | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Hope Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Food for Others Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolis Club | $9,996 | 1 | n/a |
| Montgomery College Foundation | $9,930 | 1 | 0% |
| Weserve | $9,640 | 2 | n/a |
| Little David Baptist Church | $9,636 | 1 | n/a |
| Oxon Hill United Methodist Church | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church of Highland Park Inc | $9,439 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple Hills Church of God | $9,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Rehoboth International Church | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kingdom Fellowship African Methodist Episcopal Church | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Yehuda of Greater Washington Inc | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latin American Youth Center | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Spanish Catholic Center Inc | $8,898 | 1 | 0% |
| Clifton Park Baptist Church Inc | $8,700 | 1 | n/a |
| New Macedonia Baptist Church | $8,461 | 2 | n/a |
| Living Faith Vietnamese Baptist Church | $8,370 | 1 | n/a |
| Sydenstricker United Methodist Church | $8,200 | 2 | n/a |
| The Father McKenna Center Inc | $8,135 | 2 | 1% |
| Destiny Driven Incorporated | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Springfield Christian Church | $7,761 | 1 | n/a |
| Mt Ennon Baptist Church | $7,741 | 1 | n/a |
| Lindaben Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Foundry | $7,432 | 1 | n/a |
| Ebenezer Baptist Church | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater New Hope Baptist Church | $7,135 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St John's Community Services | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Success Christian Church | $6,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Rainbow Community Development Center Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Antioch Baptist Church of Clinton | $6,079 | 2 | n/a |
| Centro de Apoyo Familiar | $6,043 | 2 | 0% |
| Brighter Day United Methodist Church | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mt Ennon Development Corporation | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kings & Priests Court Intl Ministries Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Muslim Found | $5,995 | 2 | 2% |
| Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $5,991 | 1 | 0% |
| Dupont Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church | $5,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Ebenezer Baptist Church of Woodbridge Va | $5,890 | 1 | n/a |
| Dumfries United Methodist Church | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| True Vine Center Inc | $5,413 | 1 | n/a |
| Boat People S O S Inc | $5,375 | 1 | n/a |
| River Jordan Project Inc | $5,040 | 2 | 4% |
| Woodbridge Church of the Nazarene | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | $3,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Calvary Baptist Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Baptist General Association of Virginia | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sterling United Methodist Church | $2,135 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| General Conference of Seventh Day Adventist | $1,900 | 1 | n/a |
| St Philips Episcopal Church | $1,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Dale City Church of Christ | $1,293 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Refuge Ministries Incorporated Church of God in Chri | $1,099 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Capital Area Food Bank Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 59.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
United Way of the National Capital AreaVA45.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Greater DC Diaper Bank · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Rainbow Community Development Center Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Act for Alexandria
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Capital Area Food Bank Inc
- How much does Capital Area Food Bank Inc give?
- Capital Area Food Bank Inc reported 69 itemized grants totaling $923,118, out of $79,396,322 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Capital Area Food Bank Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (94%), Religion (3%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Capital Area Food Bank Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Capital Area Food Bank Foundation ($47M), Urban Outreach Inc ($261k), The Salvation Army ($153k).
- Does Capital Area Food Bank Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Capital Area Food Bank Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the National Capital Area, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Greater DC Diaper Bank.
- Where is Capital Area Food Bank Inc based?
- Capital Area Food Bank Inc is based in DC.
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