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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.

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$626k
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$22M
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $3,706,003, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,664,307 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,958,304 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $89k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
$197,786
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM$626,322
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$614,311
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$539,442
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA$260,660
PHILABUNDANCE FOOD BANK$252,829
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF LEHIGH VALLEY & NE PA$222,999
HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK$221,073
YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK$197,786
WEINBERG NE PA REGIONAL FOOD BANK$176,468
GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD BANK$152,832
WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK$152,431
FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$85,531
INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$62,268
MERCER COUNTY FOOD BANK$51,642
FOOD FOR FAMILIES - CAMBRIA$47,276
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 (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $67k → 6%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $54k → 7%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $62k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $86k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $42k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $53k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $77k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $38k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $45k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $75k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $33k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $43k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $65k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $30k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $40k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $63k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $30k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $37k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $63k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $30k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $35k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $63k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $27k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $35k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $62k → 17%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $20k → 6%INDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $34k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $54k → 17%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 17 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$26M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+39%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SF
    SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +572%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +59%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • MC
    Montgomery County Community Action Development Commission
    one grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue -42%
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +39%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR NONPROFIT RESOURCES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +76%
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
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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2
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
San Francisco Food Bank

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…

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4
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
8
Manna On Main Street
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9
Harvest Hope Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Emergency Food Bank

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…

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12
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 143 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Pennsylvania Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $4,430,477 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAMCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $4,034,993 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANKGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,871,591 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANKPhilabundance: $2,704,176 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC: $1,851,150 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INCWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $1,026,437 · Food & NutritionFOOD HELPERS: $736,145 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $668,450 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $1,684,943 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION …HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK: $1,383,108 · OtherHELPING HARVEST F…YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $910,242 · OtherYORK COUNTY FOOD …BUTLER COUNTY SENIOR AIDES PROGRAM-TRI COUNTY WIBCAREER TRACK: $144,572 · OtherFAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $607,650 · Human ServicesINDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $385,238 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $318,281 · Human ServicesMontgomery County Community Action Development Commission: $53,966 · Human ServicesCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1,285,729 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE FOR NONPROFIT RESOURCES INC: $19,342 · Public Benefit
Food & Nutrition$19,323,419Other$4,122,865Human Services$1,365,135Housing & Shelter$1,285,729Public Benefit$19,342

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $4,430,477 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $4,034,993 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,871,591 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,704,176 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC: $1,851,150 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $1,684,943 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK: $1,383,108 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1,285,729 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $1,026,437 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $910,242 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetFOOD HELPERS: $736,145 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $607,650 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $385,238 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetFOOD FOR FAMILIES INC: $340,075 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $318,281 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY: $303,892 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetMontgomery County Community Action Development Commission: $53,966 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $24,483 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR NONPROFIT RESOURCES INC: $19,342 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

Feeding PennsylvaniaCentral Pennsylvania …American Water Charit…Geisinger Health PlanFeeding AmericaTuscarora Wayne Mutua…PhilabundanceFirstenergy FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…Farmlink ProjectUpmc GroupThe Cigna Group Found…
Feeding PennsylvaniaPA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pennsylvania Association of Regional Food Banks funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Association of Regional Food Banks. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 20 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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