Indiana · Nonprofit
FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC
FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,603,798 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($5,957,990). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc does
Mission
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Acquire, store, and distribute food to charities, families, the elderly, children, and other individuals in northwest indiana. Included in distribution is, the backpack and the pantry on the go programs. The backpack program, provides school-age children in northwest indiana with backpacks filled with food that students could take home when resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations. The pantry on the go, is a mobile pantry that distributes food directly to individuals in distressed communities throughout lake and porter counties that may not have access to a traditional food pantry.
$19,135,906 spent$563,774 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe backpack program provides school-age children in northwest indiana with backpacks filled with food that students could take home when resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations.
The pantry on the go program is a mobile pantry that distributes food directly to individuals in distressed communities throughout lake and porter counties that may not have access to a traditional food pantry.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,135,906.
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 $5.1M to $9.3M (+80%).
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 32% · 2018 36% · 2019 59% · 2020 62% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 44% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Victor Garcia
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $168k → $1.5M.
21 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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 NORTHWEST INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 NORTHWEST INDIANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 63% · 2019 58% · 2020 42% · 2021 50% · 2022 56% · 2023 35% — 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
40% of FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 NORTHWEST INDIANA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA 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 NORTHWEST INDIANA INC?
- FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,603,798 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($5,957,990). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $12,603,798 in grants to FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $5,957,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 71 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