Texas · Nonprofit
Central Texas Food Bank Inc
Central Texas Food Bank Inc (Texas) receives grants from 510 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,561,240 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($16,761,204). 268 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103M
- Funders on record
- 510
- Grants received
- $79M
- Net assets
- $120M
What Central Texas Food Bank Inc does
Mission
To increase food access in Central Texas by providing nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through programs, education, and innovative solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food distribution - food is distributed to partner agencies and provided to low-income individuals and families for free.
$82,778,477 spentof which $78,830,759 as grants$1,822,717 earned by the program90% of program spendingMobile food pantry - mobile food pantries fill geographic and service gaps in emergency food assistance. These mobile food pantries provide basic staples, fruits, vegetables, and frozen foods.
$5,226,746 spent6% of program spendingDirect-service programs for children, older adults, and food is medicine initiatives - food and meals are provided to children and older adults through direct service programs. Services include the commodity supplemental food program (csfp) and kitchen meals.
$1,419,770 spent2% of program spendingHealth & nutrition education - the nutrition education program helps low-income individuals and families make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose active lifestyles. Snap assistance - the snap assistance staff provide phone and in-person help in explaining the snap application process (along with other programs) and help completing the application packet. Healthy options for the elderly (hope) - hope provides free monthly distributions of health, shelf-stable foods. Summer food service program (sfsp) - sfsp provides nutritious lunches and snacks to children of low-income families. Feeding futures - the feeding futures program, launched by the central texas food bank (ctfb), aims to provide nutritious food, education, and support to families in need within colleges and independent school districts. National school lunch program - delivery of food to schools under the national school lunch program. Home delivery program - the home delivery program offered by the central texas food bank provides free food delivery to residents meeting certain criteria. Mobile farmacy - mobile farmacy is a program that provides access to fresh produce and healthy food options…
$2,806,754 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,231,747.
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 $26M to $60M (+127%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 4% · 2022 8% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Central Texas Food Bank Inc’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. 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
Sari Vatske
President/CEO
Board chair
Kathleen Farlow
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 162 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $9.7M.
62 of 510 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $244k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central Texas Food Bank Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Central Texas Food Bank Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Central Texas Food Bank Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 510 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 Texas Food Bank Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
82% 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 Texas Food Bank Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 35% · 2023 17% — 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
36% of Central Texas Food Bank Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
61% of Central Texas Food Bank Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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 Texas Food Bank Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Central Texas Food Bank Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Central Texas Food Bank 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 Texas
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
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ctfb of Tx Support Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Central Texas Food Bank 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 Central Texas Food Bank Inc?
- Central Texas Food Bank Inc (Texas) receives grants from 510 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,561,240 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($16,761,204). 268 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Central Texas Food Bank Inc have?
- IRS filings report 510 organizations giving $78,561,240 in grants to Central Texas Food Bank Inc, 268 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Central Texas Food Bank Inc?
- FEEDING TEXAS is the largest funder on record, with $16,761,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Central Texas Food Bank Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 510 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