Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,319,190 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($1,946,103). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 197
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Chester County Food Bank does
Mission
We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. We do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens of chester county, pa at risk of hunger and malnutrition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Chester County Food Bank is the central hunger-relief organization in chester county pennsylvania. At our core, we procure, distribute, grow, and collect food for our neighbors experiencing food insecurity in chester county. In fiscal year 2025 we distributed 6.1 million pounds of food through over 100 consistent community partners, equating to more than 4.2 million meals. We accomplish this through a variety of mission critical programs in a few strategic areas; food distribution, education & wellness, agriculture, and workforce development. We procure food through a variety of sources, these include donations of product, government assisted commodities (tefap, pass, sfpp, lfpa) and purchased food through dollars contributed privately. This allows us to distribute food at no cost to pantry participants or the community partners operating the food cupboards, meal sites, shelters and schools. As the central hunger-relief organization, we are able to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources throughout the county, regardless of an individual community's support of their local food providing agency. Food access and community education (face) is an area of our work that goes…
$9,672,696 spentof which $7,130,625 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,672,696.
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 2023 to 2024, from $17M to $21M (+25%).
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 17% · 2018 14% · 2019 15% · 2020 12% · 2021 21% · 2022 6% · 2023 20% · 2024 15% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
110% of CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Andrea Youndt
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 93 funders, grant income rose $491k → $2.3M.
25 of 197 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 197 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
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
55% 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 CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 11% · 2021 16% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% — 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
47% of CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK'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
73% of CHESTER COUNTY 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. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK is better cushioned than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
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 CHESTER COUNTY 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHESTER COUNTY 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 CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK?
- CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,319,190 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($1,946,103). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 197 organizations giving $16,319,190 in grants to CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK, 124 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK?
- FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $1,946,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESTER COUNTY 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 197 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