Washington · Nonprofit
EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY
EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $898,102 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($415,575). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $898k
- Net assets
- $208k
What Emergency Feeding Program of Seattle & King County does
Mission
To provide a nutritional and culturally appropriate response to people in need of immediate food assistance by collaborating with partner agencies throughout seattle and king county.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
We are the emergency feeding program of seattle, king county. We provide acceess to food for families and individuals in a an emergency or crisis situation. From the single-parent mom who needs food for her baby to the working class families who have to choose between a bill payment or food, thats who we proudly serve. Each week, 50,000 pounds of food is distributed through our network. Because we embrace being one of the most accessible food distribution networks in the state of washington, the demographics of our state is vast. Were not bound by serving only one zip code nor do we require individuals to have an id, our only requirement is if you are hungry and require the food, we provide that.
$2,427,047 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,427,047.
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 2021 to 2022, from $890k to $205k (−77%).
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 21% · 2018 29% · 2019 21% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Glen Turner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $108k → $36k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 20 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
EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 23% · 2021 62% · 2022 94% · 2023 43% — 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
42% of EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
87% of EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $409k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,764 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,764 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY: 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 EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY?
- EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $898,102 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($415,575). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $898,102 in grants to EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $415,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 20 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