How much does Food Lifeline give?

Food Lifeline reported 24 itemized grants totaling $1,829,139, out of $143,526,991 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Food Lifeline fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (87%), Arts & Culture (4%), Housing & Shelter (4%).

Who are Food Lifeline's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Lifeline Foundation ($3.1M), Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ($704k), Swinomish Indian Tribal Community ($628k).

Does Food Lifeline fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Food Lifeline?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Harvest Emm, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, United Way of King County.

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Washington · Public charity

Food Lifeline

FOOD LIFELINE's mission is to feed people experiencing hunger today while working to end hunger tomorrow.

$144M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Itemized grants FY2025: 31
Organizations funded FY2024: 19%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $45,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $449,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 55; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $30M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Food Lifeline funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther

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	24	$1.8M	29%
FY2024	31	$1.1M	19%
FY2023	55	$1.1M	58%
FY2022	23	$381k	26%
FY2021	27	$2.2M	26%
FY2020	29	$95k	41%
FY2019	17	$92k	24%
FY2018	20	$1.7M	30%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$8.9MArts & Culture$449kHousing & Shelter$401kHuman Services$177kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kEducation$84kAnimals$47kHealth$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food Lifeline Foundation	$3,090,000	2	96%
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank	$704,402	9	5%
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community	$628,000	6	n/a
Thurston County Food Bank	$499,679	9	2%
Hopelink	$458,135	9	0%
Archdiocese of Seattle	$415,700	9	n/a
South King County Food Coalition Skcfc	$374,191	1	n/a
Volunteers of America Western Washington	$359,002	9	0%
Lower Columbia Community Action Council	$336,810	9	2%
Mercy Housing Northwest	$282,319	7	1%

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All grantees of Food Lifeline by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food Lifeline Foundation	$3,090,000	2	96%
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank	$704,402	9	5%
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community	$628,000	6	n/a
Thurston County Food Bank	$499,679	9	2%
Hopelink	$458,135	9	0%
Archdiocese of Seattle	$415,700	9	n/a
South King County Food Coalition Skcfc	$374,191	1	n/a
Volunteers of America Western Washington	$359,002	9	0%
Lower Columbia Community Action Council	$336,810	9	2%
Mercy Housing Northwest	$282,319	7	1%
Community Action of Skagit County	$274,282	9	1%
Sea Mar Community Health Centers	$210,000	5	0%
Lhaq'Temish Foundation	$204,750	9	8%
The Silent Task Force	$188,505	4	5%
Black Farmers Collective	$151,000	3	7%
Operation Sack Lunch	$150,183	9	1%
Northwest Tribal Emergency Management Council	$140,000	3	n/a
Lifelong Health for All	$139,959	9	0%
Triumph Teen Life Center	$126,000	3	18%
Lummi Nation	$106,000	2	n/a
Plant Based Food Share	$101,000	2	n/a
Solid Ground Washington	$97,034	1	n/a
Corp of Catholic Archbishop of Seattle	$84,000	2	n/a
Tenino Community Service Center	$80,000	8	n/a
Northwest Indian College	$76,000	3	0%
Nourish Pierce County	$74,000	9	0%
Northwest Agriculture Business Center	$58,000	3	1%
Institute for Washingtons Future	$55,000	1	2%
South Park Merchants Associaiton	$52,500	3	n/a
Empower Next Generations Inc	$50,000	2	n/a
Port Angeles Food Bank	$48,970	9	1%
Northwest Animal Rights Network	$47,000	1	35%
St Charles	$46,000	1	n/a
Nations Social Services	$44,200	8	n/a
Gifts From the Heart Food Bank	$38,000	6	37%
Second Harvest Inland Northwest	$35,000	3	0%
Auburn Food Bank	$23,354	9	0%
Episcopal Parish Church of the Holy Cross	$20,946	1	n/a
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$20,684	9	0%
Archdiocesan Housing Authority	$20,500	9	0%
United States Catholic Conference	$20,162	9	n/a
Foothills Food Bank	$16,580	9	2%
Department of the Air Force	$15,000	1	n/a
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America	$14,000	8	n/a
Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergency Services	$13,050	9	0%
Making a Difference Foundation	$12,853	9	0%
White Center Emergency Food Association White Center Food Bank	$12,799	9	0%
Rainier Valley Food Bank	$12,230	9	0%
Kent Food Bank and Emergency Services	$11,812	9	0%
Carniceria Los Compadres	$10,000	1	n/a
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County	$10,000	5	n/a
Byrd Barr Place	$9,861	9	0%
Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association	$7,000	9	2%
Tukwila Pantry	$6,779	9	n/a
Federal Way Food Bank - Multi Service Center	$5,977	3	n/a
Sustainable Seattle	$5,795	1	0%
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank	$5,640	9	0%
Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank	$5,168	9	0%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley	$5,000	5	0%
Washington Coalition for Police Accountability	$5,000	1	2%
Seattle Indian Center	$5,000	9	0%
Des Moines Area Food Bank	$4,273	9	0%
Multi-Service Center	$4,250	3	0%
New Beginnings Christian Fellowship	$3,678	2	n/a
Kiwanis Club of Enumclaw Foundation	$3,569	9	1%
Northwest Washington Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Am	$3,380	9	n/a
Bremerton Foodline	$2,954	9	0%
Center for Multicutural Health	$2,941	6	0%
El Centro de la Raza	$2,940	9	0%
Restore & Repair Missionary Outreach	$2,821	6	n/a
The Prison Scholar Fund	$2,734	6	0%
Immanuel Community Services	$2,371	3	0%
Pacific Islander Community Association of WA	$2,351	6	0%
American Polynesian Organization	$2,343	7	n/a
Providence Health & Services Washington	$2,335	9	n/a
Cultivate South Park	$2,284	6	0%
Lutheran Community Services Northwest	$2,218	5	0%
Puget Sound Labor Agency Afl-Cio	$2,058	9	0%
West African Community Council	$1,894	6	0%
Haitian Christian United Church	$1,758	3	n/a
Vashon Maury Community Food Bank	$1,690	9	0%
The Salvation Army	$1,688	9	n/a
Sound Generations	$1,446	7	0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	$1,387	9	n/a
Kent Food Bank Annex at Birch Creek	$1,167	3	n/a
Lewis County Food Bank Coalition	$1,150	9	0%
Mercy Housing Inc	$777	3	0%
Pike Market Senior Center	$702	9	0%
Maranatha Adventist Church	$689	2	n/a
Ala Garifuna Women (Mfp)	$630	2	n/a
The Saint's Pantry Food Bank	$559	9	0%
Team Attitude	$387	1	n/a
Olympic Community Action Programs	$381	9	0%
Chief Seattle Club	$233	9	0%
Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle	$108	6	0%
Phinney Neighborhood Association	$55	9	n/a
International Drop in Center	$4	8	0%

Food Lifeline supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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 63.

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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.

Northwest Harvest EmmWA246.1× affinity154 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County · Harvest Against Hunger · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Lucky Seven Foundation

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.

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About Food Lifeline

How much does Food Lifeline give?: Food Lifeline reported 24 itemized grants totaling $1,829,139, out of $143,526,991 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Food Lifeline fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (87%), Arts & Culture (4%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are Food Lifeline's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Lifeline Foundation ($3.1M), Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ($704k), Swinomish Indian Tribal Community ($628k).
Does Food Lifeline fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Food Lifeline?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Harvest Emm, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, United Way of King County.
Where is Food Lifeline based?: Food Lifeline is based in WA.