Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Bread For The World Inc
Bread For The World Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,661,336 to it, the largest being Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation ($600,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Bread For The World Inc does
Mission
To advocate for changes in policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, both in the United States and around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public Education: The Offering of Letters (OL) is Bread for the World's primary activist tool. The OL is a powerful concept, where churches and community groups learn about hunger-related concerns and organize letter-writing to educate their Congressional representatives about policies to end hunger. These letters and emails from congregations, campuses, and community groups help inspire Congressional leaders to change policies and programs to reduce hunger in the U.S. and around the world. (To be continued in Schedule O)
$2,819,561 spent$69,466 earned by the program47% of program spendingOutreach and Advocacy: Our bipartisan network includes more than 320,000 people and churches who are active in every congressional district. Bread's network includes individuals, churches, congregations, parishes, and partners who are motivated to pray, act, and give to end hunger. Our network engages digitally, in person, and through prayer to achieve remarkable policy impact. (To be continued in Schedule O)
$1,355,730 spent23% of program spendingPublic Policy: For several years, Bread for the World has been sounding the alarm about multiple crises that have caused soaring rates of global hunger. Over time, Bread advocates have been winning increases in U.S. funding to respond to these needs in response to one of the worst global hunger crises in decades.(To be continued in Schedule O)
$1,818,546 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,993,837.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $13M (+22%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Eugene Cho
President/CEO
Board chair
Jeremy Everett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $46k → $325k.
3 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Bread For The World Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
Bread For The World Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 91% · 2019 48% · 2020 54% · 2021 44% · 2022 51% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of Bread For The World Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
Bread For The World Inc draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Bread For The World Inc
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 49 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bread for the World Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bread For The World Inc: 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 Bread For The World Inc?
- Bread For The World Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,661,336 to it, the largest being Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation ($600,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bread For The World Inc have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $1,661,336 in grants to Bread For The World Inc, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bread For The World Inc?
- Frank S and Julia M Ladner Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bread For The World Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 73 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing