Florida · Nonprofit
FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
FOOD FOR THE POOR INC (Florida) receives grants from 907 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,543,729 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($17,763,143). 574 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $412M
- Funders on record
- 907
- Grants received
- $85M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Food for the Poor Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to link the church of the first world with the church of the third world in a manner that helps both the materially poor and the poor in spirit. (continued on schedule o).the materially poor are served by local churches, clergy, and lay leaders who have been empowered and supplied with goods by food for the poor. The poor in spirit are renewed by their relationship with and service to the poor through our direct ministry of teaching, encouragement, and prayer. Ultimately, we seek to bring both benefactors and recipients to a closer union with our lord.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health - in 2024, food for the poor shipped 304 tractor- trailer loads of lifesaving medicines, medical supplies and equipment, personal protection equipment such as masks, sanitizer, and other critical essentials to help maintain clinics, hospitals, and medical-care centers to provide much needed medical care to poverty-stricken children and families.in a significant step toward improving maternal and child health, fftp, cepudo, and funazucar launched the "for you and your baby" campaign. This initiative aims to distribute prenatal vitamins provided by fftp donors to more than 135,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women across six departments in honduras. (continued on schedule o).the campaign is being administered through 80 health centers with the backing of six sugar companies and regional health offices. The "for you and your baby" campaign also is conducting awareness sessions about the importance of vitamin supplements. These sessions, supported by medical staff at each health center, will educate women on the benefits of prenatal vitamins for the growth of babies and the strengthening of their immune systems.
$219,769,372 spentof which $214,616,951 as grants60% of program spendingBasic needs - the charity shipped 2,160 tractor-trailer loads of essential goods valued at more than $314 million in 2024.fftp provided food for 207.9 million meals for hungry children and families. Also in 2024, fftp continued to ramp up purchasing food locally in the countries where it serves, reducing international shipping costs and getting resources sooner to the families who need them most. Fftp distributes aid to support the feeding, clothing, and sheltering of children and families living in poverty. For those already struggling with the hardship of poverty in haiti, the suffering was amplified in 2024 with civil unrest and gang violence displacing more than 1 million people. (continued on schedule o).fftp is uniquely positioned to respond in haiti because we have been on the ground providing support in the country since 1986 and continues to provide much-needed aid. Some of the highlights of assistance in 2024 include: -assembling volunteers in fftp's coconut creek, fla., headquarters to pack 19,000 personal hygiene kits. Items for the kits were supplied by map international, and fftp purchased items for an additional 30,000 kits, which include essential items such as…
$107,873,683 spentof which $94,095,500 as grants29% of program spendingCommunity support & development - water wells, agricultural tools, seeds, training, and other grants were distributed enabling entire communities to grow their own food. Aquaculture ponds, fishing villages, fruit tree nurseries, animal husbandry projects and other programs we have funded give children and families living in poverty fresh hope for a better tomorrow.the charity continued to focus on building lives as well as building homes and schools, monitoring its progress to ensure better outcomes and sustained impact, and being resilient in how it responds to emergencies. (continued on schedule o).in early 2024, fftp began the implementation of a sustainable community development (scd) project in guatemala. Scds, which typically takes about five years to complete, involve identifying and addressing economic, social, and spiritual challenges that arise in a community, and empowering families to be self-sufficient and able to thrive long-term. Fftp is currently implementing 15 scd projects, with locations in guatemala, colombia, el salvador, honduras, and nicaragua. On dec. 7, 2024, fftp marked a historic milestone with a ceremonial groundbreaking for the zion entrepreneurial…
$33,195,567 spentof which $31,655,486 as grants9% of program spendingEducation - in 2024, fftp built 84 new classrooms and repaired two schools. The charity also shipped one container of education-related goods, including school furniture, books, and educational supplies to schools, providing children with valuable tools for learning.in addition to building schools and providing supplies, fftp also supports school feeding programs in the countries where we serve. For many vulnerable children, the nutritious food they receive at school may be their only meal of the day. The meals not only help a child concentrate, learn, and develop, but they also serve as a powerful incentive for parents to send their children to school.
$6,256,285 spentof which $5,977,012 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,094,907.
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 $44M to $77M (+73%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FOOD FOR THE POOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Edward Raine
President/CEO
Board chair
Ptodd Kennedy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 282 funders to 340 funders, grant income rose $5.2M → $13M.
116 of 907 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $15k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Food for the Poor Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FOOD FOR THE POOR INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FOOD FOR THE POOR INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 907 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 FOR THE POOR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
70% 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 FOR THE POOR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 21% · 2019 26% · 2020 15% · 2021 15% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of FOOD FOR THE POOR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
65% of FOOD FOR THE POOR 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 $29M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 47 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55M arriving through sponsors registered in 33 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 FOR THE POOR INC's revenue fell 57% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 98 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding FOOD FOR THE POOR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $14k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FOOD FOR THE POOR 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Food for the Poor Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD FOR THE POOR 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 FOR THE POOR INC?
- FOOD FOR THE POOR INC (Florida) receives grants from 907 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,543,729 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($17,763,143). 574 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOOD FOR THE POOR INC have?
- IRS filings report 907 organizations giving $84,543,729 in grants to FOOD FOR THE POOR INC, 574 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD FOR THE POOR INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $17,763,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD FOR THE POOR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 907 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