Washington · Nonprofit
BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,104 to it, the largest being Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ($169,334). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Blaine Food Bank Association does
Mission
We believe that no one in our community should go hungry. Through partnerships, donations, and volunteer support, we work every day to make sure families and individuals have access to nutritious food when they need it most.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2025, the organization distributed food through 249 distribution events, serving 9,217 unduplicated individuals across 2,554 households. These services resulted in approximately 139,534 client visits, reflecting the ongoing and recurring needs of many individuals and families who access food assistance multiple times throughout the year. The food bank received cash contributions of $641,359, government grants of $173,981, fundraising event contributions of $46,290, and donated food valued at $4,392,760. The food contributed is valued at $2.25 per pound.
$4,696,186 spentof which $4,392,810 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,696,186.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $2.6M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2024 11% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lisa Dobbin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $83k → $25k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 19 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 44% · 2019 87% · 2020 37% · 2021 37% · 2022 63% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION?
- BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,104 to it, the largest being Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ($169,334). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $529,104 in grants to BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION?
- Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank is the largest funder on record, with $169,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing