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North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

$230M
Granted FY2025still arriving
131
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$39MYouth Development$9kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 131 grants below total $4,643,018, the rows itemized in this filing. The $230,380,042 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $225,737,024 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 $10k83 grants · $288k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $722k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $950k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$191M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
SHARING LIFE COMM OUTREACH$842,349
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$840,957
AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY$116,081
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS$107,943
HEART OF THE CITY$102,500
FAITH AT WORK MINISTRIES$96,908
CHASE OAKS CHURCH LEGACY CAMPUS$96,300
RESOURCE CENTER$91,000
KAUFMAN CHRISTIAN HELP CENTER$81,175
ALL COMMUNITY OUTREACH$77,250
BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND$63,250
THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER$61,498
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS$56,250
NEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORS$44,659
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITYSQUARE PARIS: $3k → 15%ROCKWALL HELPING HANDS: $24k → 5%FANNIN CO COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $7k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3k → 23%NORTH TEXAS FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 8%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRY: $8k → 14%SIR KENDRICK'S SMILE FOR AUTISM: $2k → 23%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $27k → 8%TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER: $3k → 11%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $116k → 5%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $6k → 8%LOVEPACS: $3k → 5%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $91k → 5%HOPE FOR THE CITIES: $2k → 5%COMMUNITY LIFELINE CENTER: $62k → 5%SOUPMOBILE: $2k → 14%HOPE FOR YOU: $20k → 5%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON CTY INC: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $216k → 14%HOPE FOR YOU: $2k → 5%HEART OF THE CITY: $103k → 8%HEART OF THE CITY: $250 → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $23k → 5%COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF MCKINNEY: $22k → 5%SVDP FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 5%SVDP FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $2k → 5%THE PEOPLE'S SERVANT MINISTRY (RON BIVENS): $35k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMM OUTREACH: $842k → 14%MT ZION CHURCH OF SANDBRANCH: $2k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS: $24k → 14%NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $3k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 14%NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $2k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $6k → 14%COUNCIL OF DALLAS SVDP: $3k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMM OUTREACH: $1.2M → 14%COUNCIL OF DALLAS SVDP: $2k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $71k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $11k → 14%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 71 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

71 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
30

Total granted

$34M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

59%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $595k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • SL
    SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +30%
  • TS
    THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $173k · revenue +33%
  • CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $169k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • NP
    NTFB - PEROT FAMILY CAMPUSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3.5M · revenue +621% · 100% of their budget
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $216k · revenue -20%
  • CM
    CHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $176k · revenue 0%
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
Hays County Food Bank

To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.

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2
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
3
South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement
4
Tillman County Food Bank Foundation
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5
Bread for Our Children

Provide nutrition meals for communities in the Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas areas

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6
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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7
Homeless Coalition of Dallas

Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area

Human Services
8
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.

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9
Eastside Ministries of Ft Worth

As a 501 (c) 3 organization that was incorporated in 1981 to provide free food and clothing to unhoused and underserved individuals and families on the east side of Fort Worth without discrimination.

Human Services
10
Brookshire Pattison Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition
11
North East Texas Benevolence Inc

Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.

Food & Nutrition
12
Community Care Food Pantry

Our mission is to eradicate food insecurity in our community by serving the people of Henderson County with hope and love.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sharing Life Community Outreach Inc; the most unlike its peers is We Care Adult Daycare Center Inc We Care Adult Daycare. 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

122 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. 122 of the 145 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/122
Grantees still filing
45/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEEDING NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $15,841,284 · Food & NutritionFEEDING NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATIONCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,692,380 · Food & NutritionCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC+14 more: $733,056 · Food & NutritionVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $10,835,117 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $873,073 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE+77 more: $1,866,403 · Other+77 moreNTFB - PEROT FAMILY CAMPUS: $3,507,070 · PhilanthropyNTFB - PER…+1 more: $3,557 · PhilanthropySHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $2,049,467 · Human ServicesSHARING L…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $216,130 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…Amazing Grace Food Pantry: $206,695 · Human ServicesAmazing G…+32 more: $666,009 · Human Services+32 moreKAUFMAN CHRISTIAN HELP CENTER INC: $103,475 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $91,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $24,200 · Health+2 more: $10,300 · HealthCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $168,516 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $14,154 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $15,300 · Housing & ShelterCHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION: $175,779 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Denison Texas: $8,895 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth Development
Food & Nutrition$18,266,720Other$13,574,593Philanthropy$3,510,627Human Services$3,138,301Health$228,975Housing & Shelter$197,970Youth Development$187,174

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 budgetFEEDING NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $15,841,284 over 5y, 100% of budgetNTFB - PEROT FAMILY CAMPUS: $3,507,070 over 1y, 100% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $2,049,467 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,692,380 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $216,130 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmazing Grace Food Pantry: $206,695 over 2y, 41% of budgetCHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION: $175,779 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $172,945 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $168,516 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEQUAL HEART: $159,087 over 2y, 1.7% of budget5 LOAVES FOOD PANTRY: $147,375 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $145,290 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAITH AT WORK MINISTRIES: $129,211 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORS: $125,442 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetKAUFMAN CHRISTIAN HELP CENTER INC: $103,475 over 2y, 22% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY: $102,750 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIES: $97,831 over 2y, 68% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $91,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $82,001 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC: $74,245 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $69,790 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMILES OF FREEDOM: $64,424 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFELINE CENTER: $61,783 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCedar Hill Shares Inc: $58,871 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION: $57,063 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPLEASANT GROVE FOOD PANTRY INC: $39,570 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $38,773 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHomeward Bound Inc: $33,739 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL FORT WORTH DIOCESAN COUNCIL: $33,009 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCrisis Ministries: $31,057 over 2y, 24% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $26,440 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $25,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION DBA COMPASSION CORSICANA: $24,284 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $24,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR YOU INC: $22,300 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMANNA HOUSE: $22,172 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $21,642 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetIRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $16,580 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC: $14,920 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $14,154 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY GARDEN KITCHEN OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $13,673 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCUMBY FOOD PANTRY: $12,150 over 2y, 40% of budgetMASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $11,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $10,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Denison Texas: $8,895 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIrving Cares Inc: $8,146 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $7,814 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF DALLAS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Hillcrest FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Communities Foundatio…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Coserv Charitable Fou…Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationKatherine C Carmody C…Crossroads Community …Dallas Mavericks Foun…Texas Women's Foundat…Hattie Mae Lesley Fou…
Hillcrest FoundationTX69.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Coserv Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Crossroads Community Services Inc · Dallas Mavericks Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation 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 North Texas Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Texas Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 145 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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