Nebraska · Nonprofit
FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC
FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,799,247 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($4,060,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 122
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Food Bank of Lincoln Inc does
Mission
The food bank of lincoln, inc. Is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting, storing, and distributing donated and purchased food to non-profit partner agencies who re-distribute such food to low-income clients in their local areas. The food bank operates as a single program but uses several methods for distribution: operations, child hunger, and snap outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The food bank operations department distributes food through its 69 agency partners and 29 monthly mobile pantry distributions in southeast nebraska. The department is charged with the safe delivery of food to over 40,000 households a month.
$16,413,833 spent$145,085 earned by the program85% of program spendingThe food bank of lincoln's child hunger programs partner with 124 schools in a 16-county area to distribute food through school food market, school pantry, and backpack programs. The organization also operates a summer food service program, which provides healthy meals to children and teens in low-income areas during summer months when school is not in session. Combined, it is estimated that the child hunger programs serviced 65,000 total households during fiscal year 2025.
$2,490,815 spent13% of program spendingThe food bank has two full-time snap outreach employees who provide snap application assistance and education and awareness in the food bank's 16-county service area. The snap outreach team connects people to nearly 715,000 meals annually through snap outreach.
$289,308 spent1% of program spendingThe bridges out of poverty training provides educational opportunities to explore the pervasiveness of poverty and offers a common language to improve our work in the community. These trainings are free to community groups, individuals, employers, and donors to provide a deeper understanding of poverty using language, lived experience, and meaningful discussions. The initiative also works with individuals who live in or near poverty through a workshop called getting ahead in a just-gettin' by world to help individuals empower themselves by building a future story that will ultimately serve to strengthen our community.
$137,057 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,331,013.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.4M to $18M (+91%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 17% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 25% · 2024 71% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Michaella Kumke
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $773k → $1.7M.
18 of 122 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $552k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Food Bank of Lincoln Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 122 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
FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC 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
51% 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 FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 32% · 2019 20% · 2020 21% · 2021 48% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN 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
67% of FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC is better cushioned than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Food Bank of Lincoln Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN 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 FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC?
- FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,799,247 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($4,060,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC have?
- IRS filings report 122 organizations giving $18,799,247 in grants to FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC?
- Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 122 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