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FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC

FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC (Texas) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,775,414 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($10,488,200). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$55M
Funders on record
81
Grants received
$25M
Net assets
$27M
41/81 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Food Bank of Rio Grande Valley Inc does

Mission

The Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley is passionately committed to improving lives through food assistance, nutrition education,and access to community services across the tri-county area of the lower Rio Grande Valley.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Distribution of commodities and in-kind donations to accomplish the programs mission.

    $43,784,071 spent
    89% of program spending
  2. Wages and compensation incurred to accomplish the mission of distributing commodities and in-kind donations.

    $3,253,326 spent
    7% of program spending
  3. Office expenses incurred to record, store and organize commodities and in-kind donations to accomplish the programs mission.

    $380,023 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $2,023,435 spent
    4% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,440,855.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($58M) Expenses 100 ($54M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2022 Revenue 66 ($38M) Expenses 72 ($39M) Net assets 85 ($20M)2023 Revenue 69 ($40M) Expenses 73 ($40M) Net assets 86 ($20M)2024 Revenue 89 ($52M) Expenses 89 ($48M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2025 Revenue 96 ($55M) Expenses 95 ($52M) Net assets 117 ($27M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (96)Expenses (95)Net assets (117)

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 $26M to $20M (−20%).

$26M
$20M
$23M
$26M
$29M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 2023 52% · 2024 59% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.7M
’21
−$996k
’22
$201k
’23
$3.5M
’24
$3.9M
’25
2.3
months of
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed1411121212
Joined·+3+1+0+0
No longer listed·6000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $778k → $5.0M.

16 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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 RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC.

42%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 63% · 2019 46% · 2020 51% · 2021 42% · 2022 47% · 2023 40% — 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

48% of FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

60% of FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

WA
IL
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
CA
MO
VA
DE
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $509k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 4 related entities

  • FBRGV Landlord LLC · disregarded
  • FBRGV Tenant LLC · disregarded
  • FBRGV Landlord LLC · exempt
  • FBRGV Tenant LLC · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC?
FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC (Texas) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,775,414 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($10,488,200). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC have?
IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $24,775,414 in grants to FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC?
FEEDING TEXAS is the largest funder on record, with $10,488,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 81 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