Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 244 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,178,486 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($15,269,085). 158 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134M
- Funders on record
- 244
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Central Pennsylvania Food Bank does
Mission
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. We will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and community partners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fighting hunger: Central Pennsylvania Food Bank (cpfb) is in its final year of our 10-year bold goal of ending hunger in central pa by the year 2025, while continuing to respond to changing economic conditions resulting in a growing need across central pa. In fy2025, cpfb provided nearly 55.5 million meals in central pa. Cpfb currently serves more than 268,000 people each month in partnership with over 1,100 community organizations in 27 counties. Cpfb also maintained excellent stewardship: administrative & fundraising costs comprised only 3% of our total expenses, and 97% of expenses were invested into our programs. For every $1 donated to the food bank, 4 meals were provided to our neighbors.
$94,046,046 spentof which $84,770,237 as grants$1,084,083 earned by the program73% of program spendingImproving lives: Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, an innovator in the feeding america network, is committed to improving the lives of people in need. Services like the snap healthline assist with enrollment in snap and referral to other services. Mobile distributions served over 8 million meals this year, inclusive of our militaryshare program that focuses on veterans and their families. Youth-focused programs like kids cafe, backpack, and school pantries served tens of thousands of children each week, and our eldershare program reached over 4,000 seniors each month. Also during fy2025, cpfb leveraged the local food purchase assistance and pennsylvania agricultural surplus programs, the mid-atlantic regional cooperative, and farmers, producers, grocers, and distributors to share over 27.8 million pounds of nutritious farm products with neighbors. We continue our healthcare partnerships, such as healthshare boxes and our food as medicine programming.
$33,387,620 spentof which $30,178,528 as grants$384,865 earned by the program26% of program spendingStrengthening communities: Central Pennsylvania Food Bank maintains a permanent endowment dedicated to strategic initiatives and building capacity with our partner agencies. Established in 2009, cpfb has provided $5.7m in funding for capacity improvement grants for our partners, to expand our mobile distribution programs, fresh express and militaryshare, and other innovative programs. These projects enable cpfb and its partners to serve more fresh, nutritious food to our neighbors in need across central pa. Cpfb also maintains strong research & data function to conduct local hunger mapping and other activities to help us better serve our neighbors in need and our communities. We are thankful to our donors for their support of this vital work.
$1,007,536 spentof which $1,007,536 as grants$374,490 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,441,202.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $33M to $43M (+33%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Joseph Arthur
CEO (through 6/2025)
Board chair
David Ark
Board president (through 12/2024)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 113 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $9.4M.
42 of 244 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $243k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Central Pennsylvania Food Bank). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 244 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
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
89% 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 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 35% · 2019 29% · 2020 28% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 37% — 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
52% of CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
68% of CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.
Against its field
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK's funding base is broadening — from 40 funders to 113 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: 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 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 244 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,178,486 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($15,269,085). 158 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 244 organizations giving $53,178,486 in grants to CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK, 158 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK?
- FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $15,269,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 244 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