· Public charity
Pennsylvania Association of Regional Food Banks
To strengthen its partner organizations and maximize their potential, advocate for public policy that is favorable and increase food that is available to its partner organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $3,468,580 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,895,677 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,427,097 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHARE FOOD PROGRAM | $626,094 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK | $572,905 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $501,447 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA | $246,835 |
| PHILABUNDANCE FOOD BANK | $243,232 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF LEHIGH VALLEY & NE PA | $206,868 |
| GREATER BERKS FOOD BANK | $204,230 |
| YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK | $179,189 |
| WEINBERG NE PA REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $165,679 |
| WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK | $144,196 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD BANK | $134,341 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $74,960 |
| INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $53,355 |
| BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL | $38,437 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY | $37,443 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SFSHARE FOOD PROGRAM8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +572%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +59%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +91%
Funded once
- MCMontgomery County Community Action Development Commissionone grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue -42%
- CCCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +39%
- AFALLIANCE FOR NONPROFIT RESOURCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Manna on main street is committed to ending hunger in the north penn region by providing food, fulfilling social service and education needs, and conducting community outreach. through a food pantry and soup kitchen, emergency financial…
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
The food bank of contra costa and solano (food bank) was incorporated on july 28, 1975. the food bank was established in order to efficiently gather, warehouse, and distribute food products to contra costa county charities meeting…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The mission of the emergency food bank is to build a stronger community by providing a safety net of food, nutrition and health education, job training and hope to residents of san joaquin county who find themselves in an emergency…
Rooted in faith and compassion we provide services that honor the dignity of all by striving to meet basic human needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery County Community Action Development Commission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD HELPERS ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Community Action Development Commission ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR NONPROFIT RESOURCES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Feeding Pennsylvania · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Geisinger Health Plan · Feeding America · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · Philabundance · Firstenergy Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Farmlink Project · Upmc Group · The Cigna Group Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pennsylvania Association of Regional Food Banks funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.