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Manna Food Bank Inc

Mission: to involve, educate, and unite people in the work of ending hunger in western north carolina.

$36M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$2.0MHuman Services$432kHealth$146kArts & Culture$115kReligion$108kHousing & Shelter$89kRecreation & Sports$83kCommunity Improvement$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 51 grants below total $1,985,785, the rows itemized in this filing. The $35,890,513 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,904,728 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $702k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $1.3M
$48,988
Median grant
3
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOE RIVER AGGREGATION CENTER TRAINI$65,000
MITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERD'S STAFF FO$50,000
BRYANT FARMS$50,000
WNC FROM THE GROUND UP$50,000
TOE RIVER AGGREGATION CENTER TRAINI$50,000
ADAM MCCURRY DBA ROCKY HOLLOW FARM$50,000
RESTORATION HOUSE WNC$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - SHELTON LAUREL$50,000
THE TRIPLE B'S LLC DBA AGAINST THE$50,000
GEORGETOWN BAPTIST CHURCH$50,000
TYLER SCHNEPPER DBA ABUNDANT ACRES$50,000
BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITY KITCHEN$50,000
DARNELL FARMS LLC$50,000
LINDA SHELL DBA TATER HILL FARM$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MCDOWELL MISSION MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%HICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INC: $1k → 16%ONLY HOPE WNC- OLIVE BRANCH FOOD PA: $1k → 12%BEACON OF HOPE: $50k → 15%REACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $1k → 15%BEACON OF HOPE SERVICES: $2k → 15%PIGEON COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL DEVE: $47k → 12%BETHEL A BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 13%MITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERD'S STAFF FO: $50k → 16%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $5k → 12%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $3k → 12%MITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERD'S STAFF FO: $1k → 16%TRANZMISSION INC: $10k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE - FOOD P: $2k → 12%COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE: $25k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE - FOOD P: $240 → 12%GIVENS ESTATES: $170 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$672k · 27 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +90% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
94

Total granted

$672k
$942k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+90%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +57%
  • BI
    BIG IVY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +928%
  • BO
    Beacon of Hope Services Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCgraduated
    7× · 2017–2023 · $824k · revenue +86%
  • AC
    ABCCM - CRISIS MINISTRY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $5k
  • BA
    BOUNTY AND SOUL FRESH MARKET
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
2
Restoring Hope Center Inc

Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…

Human Services
3
Feed Your Neighbor Community Food Pantry Inc

To distribute emergency food assistance to individuals and families in the greenville area, and to cooperate with partnering agencies so that recipients have access to the greatest number of nutritional resources.

Food & Nutrition
4
Farmer Foodshare Inc

Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc

The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…

Food & Nutrition
6
Anderson County Community Action Inc

The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…

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7
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard serves the hungry in the Wilmington area through distribution of emergency food. This service is provided without discrimination by volunteers in collarboration with community organizations and businesses with…

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8
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc. mobilizes volunteers and resources to provide supplemental food assistance to the 1 in 5 children in New Hanover County who struggle with hunger. NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to enhance children's health and well-being by…

Food & Nutrition
9
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
10
Food Bank of Greenwood County

The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.

Food & Nutrition
11
Feed-a-Child Wnc Inc

Provide food and supplies for the low income and needy

Food & Nutrition
12
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western North Carolina Community Health Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wolf Creek Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

151 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. 151 of the 155 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
140/151
Grantees still filing
105/151
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $824,001 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc: $115,000 · Food & NutritionToe River Aggregation Center Training Organiz…THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $52,202 · Food & NutritionThe Community Table Inc: $51,821 · Food & NutritionBounty & Soul: $50,000 · Food & NutritionHunger Coalition of Transylvania Co: $48,988 · Food & Nutrition+13 more: $101,626 · Food & Nutrition+13 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $84,868 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NOR…WNC FROM THE GROUND UP: $65,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $53,749 · OtherBAPTIST STATE CENVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA: $53,075 · OtherADAM MCCURRY DBA ROCKY HOLLOW FARM: $50,000 · OtherTHE TRIPLE B'S LLC DBA AGAINST THE: $50,000 · OtherDARNELL FARMS LLC: $50,000 · OtherHARRELL HILL FARMS: $50,000 · OtherFLAVOR FULL FARMS INC: $50,000 · OtherELIZABETH SELF: $50,000 · OtherLINDA SHELL DBA TATER HILL FARM: $50,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN BAPTIST CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherNICOLE DELCOGLIANO DBA GREEN TOE GR: $50,000 · OtherTYLER SCHNEPPER DBA ABUNDANT ACRES: $50,000 · OtherBRYANT FARMS: $50,000 · OtherKATHRYN E SKELLEY-WATTS DBA DIRT PI: $50,000 · OtherMISTY MOUNTAIN GARDEN: $43,849 · Other+94 more: $411,884 · Other+94 moreBeacon of Hope Services Inc: $52,499 · Human ServicesMITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF: $51,452 · Human ServicesPigeon Community Development Center: $47,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTRANZMISSION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHaywood Christian Ministry Inc: $7,753 · Human Services+8 more: $10,055 · Human ServicesRESTORATION HOUSE WNC: $50,000 · HealthRecovery Ventures Corporation: $45,000 · HealthCornbread & Roses Community Counseling Inc: $44,761 · HealthBIG IVY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB: $52,593 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,109 · Community ImprovementHola Carolina: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,750 · Arts & CultureFINES CREEK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $45,988 · Recreation & Sports
Food & Nutrition$1,243,638Other$1,312,425Human Services$203,759Health$139,761Community Improvement$68,702Arts & Culture$53,750Recreation & Sports$45,988

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $824,001 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $84,868 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBIG IVY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB: $52,593 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetBeacon of Hope Services Inc: $52,499 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $52,202 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetThe Community Table Inc: $51,821 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF: $51,452 over 9y, 11% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSE WNC: $50,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetHunger Coalition of Transylvania Co: $48,988 over 5y, 39% of budgetFINES CREEK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $45,988 over 9y, 45% of budgetRecovery Ventures Corporation: $45,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetHaywood Pathways Center Inc: $41,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALUDA POP-UP PANTRY: $33,273 over 3y, 11% of budgetCLAY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $32,695 over 9y, 15% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetMCDOWELL LFAC: $17,317 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $14,009 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTRANZMISSION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHaywood Christian Ministry Inc: $7,753 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI: $3,079 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Inc: $2,601 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC: $2,455 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR FAIRVIEW INCORPORATED: $2,039 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY SHARING CENTER INC: $2,031 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte: $1,872 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMission Ministries Alliance: $1,821 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOOD PANTY INC: $1,812 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLoving Food Resources Inc: $1,755 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $1,701 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHURCH MOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $1,655 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $1,647 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Assistance Ministry Inc: $1,642 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,619 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS: $1,617 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMACON COUNTY CARE NETWORK: $1,479 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $1,357 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetThe Giving Spoon Inc: $1,277 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGRAHAM EMERGENCY FOOD BANK INC: $1,275 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INC: $1,248 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCentro Unido Latino Americano: $1,175 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetREACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $1,161 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetONLY HOPE WNC: $1,104 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNeighbors in Ministry Inc: $1,037 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bread of Life Inc: $1,025 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSTECOAH VALLEY ARTS CRAFTS & EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $958 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $879 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOCUS FOUNDATION INC: $766 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds BAPTIST STATE CENVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds BIG IVY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Beacon of Hope Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Community Table Inc ↗
  • Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF ↗
  • Who funds Hola Carolina ↗
  • Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION HOUSE WNC ↗
  • Who funds Hunger Coalition of Transylvania Co ↗
  • Who funds Pigeon Community Development Center ↗
  • Who funds FINES CREEK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Recovery Ventures Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Cornbread & Roses Community Counseling Inc ↗
  • Who funds Haywood Pathways Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SALUDA POP-UP PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds CLAY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOT CAUSE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds Bountiful Cities Project ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Dogwood Health TrustWnc Bridge FoundationPisgah Health Foundat…Impact HealthCommunity Foundation …The Cannon Foundation…United Way of Ashevil…North Carolina Commun…Nantahala Health Foun…Mission Hospital IncHenderson County Unit…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC174× affinity132 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Pisgah Health Foundation · Impact Health · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Nantahala Health Foundation · Mission Hospital Inc · Henderson County United Way Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Manna Food Bank Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Manna Food Bank Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 155 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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