Washington · Nonprofit
FERNDALE FOOD BANK
FERNDALE FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,686 to it, the largest being MARY H STORER FOUNDATION ($130,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $593k
- Net assets
- $696k
What Ferndale Food Bank does
Mission
The Ferndale Food Bank is a local food bank that distrbutes food to community members in need of assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Ferndale Food Bank works to provide a sustainable source of food to whatcom county families experiencing food scarcity. This is done through in-person distributions at our facility. During the 2024 / 2025 year the food bank served 8,160 individuals. During the 2024 / 2025 year the food bank received cash contributions of 552,715 and food valued at 1,633,579. Also, volunteer labor valued at 306,383 was contributed. Food and supplies purchased for distribution was 214,144. Donated labor is valued at 17.76 per hour. Contributed food is valued at 1.97 per pound.
$2,183,047 spentof which $13,118 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,183,047.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $413k to $637k (+54%).
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: 2024 15% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 6 funders, grant income fell $51k → $26k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 FERNDALE FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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
FERNDALE FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
63% 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 FERNDALE FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 48% · 2019 74% · 2020 37% · 2021 38% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% — 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
33% of FERNDALE FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
FERNDALE FOOD BANK draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like FERNDALE 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FERNDALE 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 FERNDALE FOOD BANK?
- FERNDALE FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,686 to it, the largest being MARY H STORER FOUNDATION ($130,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FERNDALE FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $592,686 in grants to FERNDALE FOOD BANK, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FERNDALE FOOD BANK?
- MARY H STORER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FERNDALE FOOD BANK 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 18 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