· Public charity
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLECREEK AREA COMMUNITY YMCA | $51,000 |
| SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH | $20,628 |
| CSO - CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES | $20,000 |
| SCCAP - GETTYSBURG | $15,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES | $11,500 |
| HARRISBURG BRETHREN IN CHRIST | $11,500 |
| REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD - LIVING SPRING | $11,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH - SVDP | $10,000 |
| MIDDLETOWN INTERFAITH PANTRY | $9,000 |
| GRANTVILLE AREA FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| PANTHER RAM NUTRIPACKS PROGRAM (SP) | $4,000 |
| KINGDOM EMBASSY | $4,000 |
| LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| MARANATHA MINISTRIES | $1,537 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
272 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 252 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFIRST FRUITS FARM INC4× · 2017–2020 · $278k · revenue +68%
- YCYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK8× · 2018–2025 · $268k · revenue +165%
- NHNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $256k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- CCCAMPUS CUPBOARD FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- LCLancaster County Chooses Lovegraduated3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +307%
- DDDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue -61%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide access to food for low-income families in the Sullivan County community in order to alleviate food insecurity and to improve the overall health and well-being of those served.
Providing food to the community from the food bank.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To administer food grants programs, to solicit and distribute food through a county-wide network of food pantries in greene county, pa and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.
The mission of the food cupboard is to nourish and feed those in our community who are unable to do so on their own primarily due to limited financial resources.
The Pantry seeks to offer the Bread of Life to our community by providing quality food and building quality relationships rooted in the love ofJesus. Due to the strong need in our community, The Pantry at Hamilton Mill was created to…
Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…
To provide, or make available, food products or other items to its patrons, donees, and/or beneficiaries.
To provide relief to those facing food insecurity.
Provides nourishing, well-balanced meals to homebound, elderly, and/or disabled persons throughout lackawanna county to improve the health and quality of life of the local community.
How this is measured
383 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 383 of the 416 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LOVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AGAPE LOVE FROM ABOVE TO OUR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE CARING CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE STATE COLLEGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds POWER PACKS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCHES ELIZABETHTOWN AREA ↗
- Who funds CHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Fulton County Food Basket Inc ↗
- Who funds Join Hands Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds YORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds TOWANDA AREA CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Aid Inc · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · York County Food Bank · United Way of Lancaster County · Partnership for Better Health · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Community Giving Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Central Pennsylvania Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.
- First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
How this is measured
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