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Massachusetts · Public charity

Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low income seniors. Last year, we distributed over 109 million pounds of food, the equivalent of over 90.9…

$135M
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$844k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$844,329
Largest grant, FY2022
$844,329
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2022
Total assets, FY2022
$85M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Greater Boston Food Bank Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$844k100%
FY20171$76Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$77M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2022.

APPROXIMATELY 627 MEMBER AGENCIES$844,329

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About Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

How much does Greater Boston Food Bank Inc give?
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $844,329, out of $135,260,922 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Greater Boston Food Bank Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Does Greater Boston Food Bank Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc based?
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $141M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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