Ohio · Public charity
Freestore Foodbank Inc
Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.
- $358k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $348k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,658
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $69,150
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $72M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Freestore Foodbank Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $348k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $440k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $1.7M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $18M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $6.1M | 79% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $151k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $77k | 91% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $127k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fg-Hope Inc | $17,804,100 | 1 | 99% |
| The Freestore Foodbank Foundation | $7,630,000 | 2 | 78% |
| Queen Mother's Market Cooperative | $298,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Your Store of the Queen City | $98,020 | 2 | 18% |
| Inter Parish Ministry Inc | $89,165 | 3 | 1% |
| Isaiah 55 Inc | $83,750 | 2 | 13% |
| Community Economic Advancement Initiative Inc | $82,867 | 1 | n/a |
| Monarch Global Management Group LLC | $68,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Hands in Christian Service Inc | $55,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Community Church | $48,067 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 56 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fg-Hope Inc | $17,804,100 | 1 | 99% |
| The Freestore Foodbank Foundation | $7,630,000 | 2 | 78% |
| Queen Mother's Market Cooperative | $298,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Your Store of the Queen City | $98,020 | 2 | 18% |
| Inter Parish Ministry Inc | $89,165 | 3 | 1% |
| Isaiah 55 Inc | $83,750 | 2 | 13% |
| Community Economic Advancement Initiative Inc | $82,867 | 1 | n/a |
| Monarch Global Management Group LLC | $68,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Hands in Christian Service Inc | $55,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Community Church | $48,067 | 3 | n/a |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Council | $42,459 | 5 | 0% |
| Potters House Ministries Inc | $27,930 | 3 | 6% |
| The Healing Center | $23,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Liberty Chapel Umc | $21,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Cain Cincy | $18,109 | 3 | 1% |
| West Fork Baptist | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Be Concerned Inc | $17,935 | 4 | 1% |
| Adventist Outreach Ministries Inc | $16,400 | 1 | 40% |
| Mt Orab United Methodist Church | $16,306 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan Outreach Services of Highland County | $15,665 | 1 | n/a |
| Dearborn County Clearing House for Emergency Aid Inc | $14,459 | 2 | 4% |
| Generations Church | $14,095 | 3 | n/a |
| Olivet Baptist Church | $13,981 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Products Llc-Central Restaurant Products | $12,658 | 1 | n/a |
| Scioto Christian Ministry Inc | $12,537 | 1 | 2% |
| May's Lick Baptist Church | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tikkun Farm Inc | $10,880 | 1 | 4% |
| Loveland Inter Faith Effort Inc Life Food Pantry | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Food From the Heart | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Emergency Program | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Christ's Community in College Hill | $9,650 | 1 | 9% |
| Community Action Committee of Pike County Inc | $9,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Moms Food Pantry | $9,411 | 1 | 12% |
| Church of the Advent | $9,243 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $8,880 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati | $8,756 | 1 | 0% |
| Because He Lives Food Pantry Inc | $8,729 | 1 | n/a |
| Xavier University | $8,690 | 1 | 0% |
| Church on Fire Ministries | $8,330 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area | $7,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Brighton Center Inc | $7,523 | 1 | 0% |
| The Pike County Outreach Council of Churches Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Lincoln Heights Outreach Inc | $7,199 | 1 | n/a |
| Archdiocese of Cincinnati | $6,315 | 1 | n/a |
| United Ministries | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Whitewater Community Food Pantry | $6,117 | 1 | n/a |
| Islamic Association of Cincinnati | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Vision Missionary Baptist Church | $5,989 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Give Back | $5,879 | 1 | 1% |
| St Monica St George Parish Newman Center | $5,769 | 1 | n/a |
| Mt Healthy City School District | $5,552 | 1 | n/a |
| Madisonville Education and Assistance Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Maria Community Services Inc | $4,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Wilmington Church of God | $3,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Southbend United Methodist Church | $2,199 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln Heights Valley Boosters Club | $2,101 | 2 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Freestore Foodbank Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Matthew 25 Ministries Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Peoples Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation
How this is measured
About Freestore Foodbank Inc
- How much does Freestore Foodbank Inc give?
- Freestore Foodbank Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $347,748, out of $357,748 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Freestore Foodbank Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%), Community Improvement (0%).
- Who are Freestore Foodbank Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Fg-Hope Inc ($18M), The Freestore Foodbank Foundation ($7.6M), Queen Mother's Market Cooperative ($299k).
- Does Freestore Foodbank Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Freestore Foodbank Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Matthew 25 Ministries Inc, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
- Where is Freestore Foodbank Inc based?
- Freestore Foodbank Inc is based in OH.
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