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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$750k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$14MHousing & Shelter$50kEmployment$25kHealth$23k
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 83 grants below total $2,294,377, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,907,854 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $613,477 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 $10k57 grants · $388k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $361k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $796k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$7,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC$750,000
WESTMINSTER RESCUE MISSION$117,000
COLUMBIA COMMUNITY CARE$100,000
THE EPICENTER$75,000
ANNE ARUNDEL FOOD BANK$74,034
ASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES$71,575
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY- CHILDREN'S CENTER$70,000
WESTERN MARYLAND FOOD BANK$63,500
LADIES OF CHARITY CALVERT COUNTY INC$63,000
BLACK YIELD INSTITUTE$55,000
THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$55,000
HARFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION #1514$52,000
END HUNGER IN CALVERT COUNTY$42,000
ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC$42,000
AMAZING GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH$41,902
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 (FY20–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CITY OF REFUGE: $100k → 6%HARFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION #1514: $173k → 7%ELEVEN 21 INCEPOCH DREAM CENTER: $12k → 13%ONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC: $42k → 15%SMILE ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES: $25k → 5%THE EPICENTER: $75k → 7%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $40k → 11%ELEVEN 21 INCEPOCH DREAM CENTER: $12k → 13%HARFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION #1514: $70k → 7%FISHES & LOAVES PANTRY: $20k → 19%HARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $68k → 7%FISHES & LOAVES PANTRY: $15k → 19%THE EPICENTER: $62k → 7%HARFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION #1514: $57k → 7%HARFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION #1514: $52k → 7%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $13k → 11%ADOPT A BLOCK OUTREACH INC: $93k → 13%LOVE WINS: $30k → 6%THE EPICENTER: $45k → 7%FISHES & LOAVES PANTRY: $12k → 19%CITY OF REFUGE: $12k → 6%HARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $9k → 7%WELLS RECOVERY INC: $14k → 12%LOVE WINS: $12k → 6%ADOPT A BLOCK OUTREACH INC: $10k → 13%COLUMBIA COMMUNITY CARE: $100k → 6%FISHES & LOAVES PANTRY: $10k → 19%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $74k → 8%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $37k → 8%SOUTHERN MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $35k → 8%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $30k → 8%TRANSFORMING LIVES COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $20k → 19%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL HOWARD COUNTY: $9k → 6%SOUTHERN MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $30k → 8%SOUTHERN MARYLAND FOOD BANK: $21k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - SMFB: $13k → 8%CATHERINE'S FAMILY & YOUTH SERVICES: $16k → 19%PATHWAY FORWARD INC: $133k → 19%PATHWAY FORWARD INC: $14k → 19%LIBERTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $11k → 11%LIBERTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 11%COLLINGTON SQUARE NON PROFIT: $10k → 19%COLLINGTON SQUARE NON PROFIT: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $10k → 11%CATHERINE'S FAMILY & YOUTH SERVICES: $27k → 19%40 WEST ASSISTANCE & REFERRAL CENTER INC: $13k → 19%FRANCISCAN CENTER: $39k → 19%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $65k → 19%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 115 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

115 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
77

Total granted

$13M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+9%

Still filing today

51%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationReligionHealthOther
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

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +76%
  • WR
    WESTMINSTER RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $551k · revenue +26%
  • HC
    HARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $429k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • BC
    BLACK CHURCH FOOD SECURITY NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • KU
    KINGDOM UNITED MIRACLE ARENA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -2%
  • MC
    MORGAN CHAPEL CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
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
Mel Johnson International

Food bank, community resource center

Philanthropy
2
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Church Women United

Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…

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4
Community for Christ Outreach

Religious Orginazation

Housing & Shelter
5
Bread of Life Community Services
Food & Nutrition
6
West Elkton Church of Christ Inc

Religious organization

—
7
3G Food Pantry

Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
8
Gods Bounty Inc

Supplying food to low income residents

Food & Nutrition
9
Williams & Dollard Community Development Corporation

Subsidized/Low to Moderate Income Real Estate Development Social Services

Education
10
Eben-Ezer Ministries Corp
Religion
11
Cumby Food Pantry

food pantry

Food & Nutrition
12
Elbert County United Methodist Food Ministry Inc
Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Assistance Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Phase 3 Training Corporation. 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

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 224 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
54/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $5,250,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $773,968 · Food & NutritionANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC+8 more: $500,589 · Food & Nutrition+8 moreSouthern Maryland Tri-County Community Action Committee Inc: $256,670 · OtherSouthern Maryland Tri-County Comm…SON SPOT MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $208,820 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $192,050 · OtherMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $155,000 · OtherBRUSH ARBOR GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $153,897 · Other+129 more: $3,252,448 · Other+129 moreHARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $428,941 · Human ServicesHARFORD COMMUNI…EDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $181,590 · Human ServicesEDGEWOOD COMMUN…PATHWAY FORWARD INC: $147,500 · Human ServicesPATHWAY FORWARD…NEW HOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $141,540 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE COMMUN…CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC: $119,100 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGE …COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $117,719 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ASSIS…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $111,560 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…EWC ADOPT-A-BLOCK OUTREACH INC: $102,361 · Human ServicesColumbia Community Care: $100,000 · Human Services+22 more: $543,112 · Human Services+22 moreWESTMINSTER RESCUE MISSION: $551,296 · Housing & ShelterFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC: $63,500 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $34,800 · Housing & ShelterSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CONFERENCE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $27,790 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $62,884 · Housing & ShelterJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $189,400 · EducationPHASE 3 TRAINING CORPORATION: $25,000 · EducationEAST BALTIMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $17,532 · EducationTHE CARROLL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,794 · Education+3 more: $22,000 · EducationAsbury Church Assistance Network In: $97,320 · ReligionKINGDOM UNITED MIRACLE ARENA INC: $70,000 · ReligionGOOD FIGHT OF FAITH EVANGELIST MINISTRIE: $32,000 · ReligionLIBERTY GRACE OF GOD: $18,000 · Religion+2 more: $13,684 · ReligionTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $153,345 · PhilanthropyCHOSEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $24,875 · PhilanthropySALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $18,348 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Food & Nutrition$6,524,557Other$4,218,885Human Services$1,993,423Housing & Shelter$770,270Education$267,726Religion$231,004Philanthropy$203,568

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $5,250,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $773,968 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetWESTMINSTER RESCUE MISSION: $551,296 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetHARFORD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $428,941 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSouthern Maryland Tri-County Community Action Committee Inc: $256,670 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $192,050 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $189,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $181,590 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $155,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $153,345 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAY FORWARD INC: $147,500 over 2y, 73% of budgetNEW HOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $141,540 over 3y, 18% of budgetEnd Hunger in Calvert County Inc: $131,279 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC: $119,100 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION OF CECIL COUNTY INC: $118,536 over 4y, 21% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $117,719 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCEA INC fka CEFM Network Inc: $117,566 over 4y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $111,560 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $106,350 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEWC ADOPT-A-BLOCK OUTREACH INC: $102,361 over 2y, 55% of budgetBLACK CHURCH FOOD SECURITY NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAsbury Church Assistance Network In: $97,320 over 6y, 28% of budgetNEW LIFE FOOD PANTRY INC: $82,653 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetAARONS PLACE INC: $78,100 over 5y, 11% of budgetWestern Maryland Food Bank: $71,098 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLADIES OF CHARITY CALVERT COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC: $63,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetREBIRTH INC: $59,284 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFISHES & LOAVES PANTRY INC: $56,650 over 4y, 31% of budgetAFRITHRIVE INC: $56,588 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,969 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOutcast Food Network: $46,545 over 4y, 15% of budgetLOVE WINS MOVEMENT: $42,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUPWARD THRIVE ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $42,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetONE MISSION CAMBRIDGE INC: $42,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWELLS HOUSE INC: $39,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC: $39,325 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $38,970 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $36,812 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $34,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINTERFAITH SERVICE COALITION OF HANCOCK MARYLAND INC: $31,426 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetELEVEN 21 INC: $31,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CONFERENCE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budget40 WEST ASSISTANCE & REFERRAL CENTER INC: $29,576 over 4y, 16% of budgetOffice Of Consumer Advocates Inc: $29,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $27,790 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

The United Way of Cen…Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …The Harry and Jeanett…The Marion I & Henry …Nora Roberts Foundati…Fund for Educational …Sharebaby IncMid Shore Community F…The John J Leidy Foun…France-Merrick Founda…Community Foundation …
The United Way of Central Maryland IncMD53.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Sharebaby Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co

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 The Maryland Food Bank Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maryland Food Bank Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 350%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mr Mack Lewis Foundation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Diakonia Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Southern Maryland Tri-County Community Action Committee Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Afrithrive Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Casa - Citizens Assisting and Sheltering the Abused Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp: 28% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
  • St Michaels Community Center Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Love Wins Movement: 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • End Hunger in Calvert County Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Harford Community Action Agency Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Washington County Community Action Council Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Community Assistance Network Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Columbia Community Care: 5% of income from government
  • Interfaith Service Coalition of Hancock Maryland Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Chase Brexton Health Services Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Kingdom Kare Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Development Inc: 1% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
35get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 224 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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