Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,804,641 to it, the largest being ALEXANDER AND JANE BOYD TA FOUNDATION ($605,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Downtown Daily Bread does
Mission
Downtown Daily Bread serves people confronting hunger and homelessness by offering daily meals and shelter, delivering health resources and services, fostering community, and inspiring hope.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Downtown Daily Bread has been a gateway to basic human services for hundreds of homeless and hungry individuals in harrisburg. The ddb soup kitchen provides clients with weekday breakfasts and daily lunch meals. Ddb provides numerous assistance programs such as showers, lockers, mail delivery, laundry cards, vouchers for photo ids, clothing, and other personal hygiene items. Ddb operates a day shelter that has cots, computers, phones, and staff counselors for clients to speak with. Clients can meet with mental health counselors, case management, and be connected to employment opportunities. During the winter season (starting in november and running through the end of march) ddb runs a night shelter for men.
$1,442,232 spent$56,272 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,442,232.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $4.3M (+15%).
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: 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $28k → $276k.
7 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 65% · 2019 46% · 2020 63% · 2021 50% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% — 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
62% of DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: 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 DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD?
- DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,804,641 to it, the largest being ALEXANDER AND JANE BOYD TA FOUNDATION ($605,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,804,641 in grants to DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD?
- ALEXANDER AND JANE BOYD TA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $605,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 36 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