Ohio · Nonprofit
FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC
FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,333 to it, the largest being THE TROY FOUNDATION ($222,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $365k
What First Place Food Pantry Inc does
Mission
To provide food and personal care items for low income households in troy and casstown, ohio.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Fortunes can change in an instant a layoff, an accident, a long-term illness, or other unexpected event can have a significant impact on a family. Seeing so many families in need, reminds all of us how easily our lives can take a turn for the worse without any notice, says donna wilkerson, operations manager, first place food pantry. When a familys food budget gets slashed, caring about nutrition drops down on the priority scale. Recently, a new family came to the food pantry. The wife had a debilitating heart attack. Her husband had to retire from work to care for her. Applying for assistance takes a long time. Finances got tight and medical expenses kept mounting. Thankfully, a neighbor checked in on them one day and saw their need. She told them about first place food pantry. They had one can of soup, a loaf of bread and peanut butter left in the cupboard. He had lost 54 pounds and she had lost 30 pounds. When they visited our drive-up food pantry for the first time, they were embarrassed they had to ask for help. But they were so grateful for the food they received. The second time they came back to the food pantry he said we got to eat a full meal which we had not had in a…
$1,684,321 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,684,321.
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 2019 to 2020, from $107k to $355k (+233%).
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.
100% of FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Sharon Buse
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $98k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 53% · 2022 58% · 2023 71% — 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
80% of FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
63% of FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $175k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 953 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 953 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Organizations like FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC
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 Ohio
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
100%
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 FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC: 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 FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC?
- FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,333 to it, the largest being THE TROY FOUNDATION ($222,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $474,333 in grants to FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC?
- THE TROY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $222,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST PLACE FOOD PANTRY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 15 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