Tennessee · Nonprofit
FEEDING THE NEED
FEEDING THE NEED (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $-223986
What Feeding the Need does
Mission
Feeding the Need is a nonprofit corporation wholly owned by the mid-south food bank. Feeding the Need was formed on july 10, 2018 for the purpose of constructing and owning a new facility for the mid-south food bank's operations. The food bank operates as a clearinghouse to receive, store and distribute food and non-grocery items to nonprofit agencies that serve the ill, needy, children and infants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support and further the mission of the mid-south food bank by constructing and owning a new facility for the food bank's operations. The mid-south food bank distributes food and non-grocery items to non-profit agencies that serve the ill, needy, children and infants. From july 2024 to june 2025, the food bank distributed approximately 35.7 million pounds of food and non-grocery items to approximately 345 charitable programs.
$781,522 spent$117,761 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $781,522.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $22M to $21M (−4%).
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.
0% of FEEDING THE NEED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Against its field
FEEDING THE NEED is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FEEDING THE NEED
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mid-South Food Bank · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FEEDING THE NEED: 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 FEEDING THE NEED?
- FEEDING THE NEED (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEEDING THE NEED have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to FEEDING THE NEED.
- Who is the largest funder of FEEDING THE NEED?
- MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEEDING THE NEED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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