Virginia · Nonprofit
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC (Virginia) receives grants from 243 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,677,112 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,200,434). 156 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75M
- Funders on record
- 243
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc does
Mission
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight cities in central and western virginia through a network of more than 220 providers, soup kitchens, and shelters and through nutrition programs with more than 170 community partners. Over 31 million pounds of food were distributed throughout the year serving on average 148,200 people each month.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The food bank acquired and distributed 29.3 million pounds of food to people in need through a network of 220 food pantries, soup kitchens, and community shelters. More than nine million pounds of the food distributed was fresh produce. This represents approximately 24.4 million total meals served to an average of 171,200 people each month. Additionally, nearly 2.8 million pounds of rescued food was distributed to other food banks across the united states to obtain various quantities of food and non-food items through reciprocal exchange. The food bank has received a four-star rating from charity navigator and a platinum seal of transparency from guidestar.
$63,001,734 spentof which $57,598,748 as grants$2,203,724 earned by the program91% of program spendingIn addition to distribution through community partner pantries, the food bank's mobile food pantry and neighborhood produce market programs distributed over 1.6 million total pounds of food to an average of over 7,900 individuals each month in rural and remote areas. Food distributed included fresh produce, dairy, meat, and shelf-stable items.
$3,115,726 spent4% of program spendingThe food bank's nutrition programs focus on vulnerable populations, including rural neighbors, children, and seniors, and over 1.55 million pounds of food were acquired and distributed through these programs. Close to 9,000 children and their families were fed each month on average through several programs, including: the family backpack program which meets the needs of hungry children and their families by providing the foundation of family meals for weekends and extended breaks when children cannot access school-based programs; good food school markets partner with schools to provide to teens distributions, monthly and at school breaks, of nutrient-rich foods including fresh produce, at high school based pantries; kids cafe provides nutritious snacks and meals for at-risk children in after school programs; summer kid packs and summer feeding programs serve nourishing meals and snacks and provide bags of shelf-stable food at neighborhood recreation and community centers and churches when school is not in session. The senior nutrition programs delivered boxes of food monthly to 2,700 homebound and low-income seniors as well as individuals with special needs. The food pharmacy…
$3,124,532 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $69,241,992.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $33M (+48%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 17% · 2020 3% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% · 2024 25% · 2025 22%. 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 9 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
Kari J Diener
CEO
Board chair
Hatsy Vallar
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 114 funders, grant income rose $895k → $5.1M.
34 of 243 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 243 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
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
69% 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 BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 36% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 27% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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
59% of BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC?
- BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC (Virginia) receives grants from 243 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,677,112 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,200,434). 156 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 243 organizations giving $32,677,112 in grants to BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC, 156 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $7,200,434 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 243 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