Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FOOD & FRIENDS INC
FOOD & FRIENDS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 210 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,577,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,796,998). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 210
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Food & Friends Inc does
Mission
To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fiscal year 2025, food & friends staff and 4,566 volunteers prepared, packaged, and home-delivered over 2,208,000 medically tailored meals to approximately 6,250 adults and children living with hiv/aids, cancer, and other life-challenging illnesses. Food & friends staff and volunteers also provided meals for the caregivers and dependents of the clients it serves, who are often the providers for their families and can't perform the activities of daily living. Food & friends' freshly prepared, life-sustaining meals are designed by professional chefs and dietitians and delivered free of charge to recipients thanks to caring donors, funding from state and local governments, and corporate sponsorships.
$12,261,113 spent$4,231,449 earned by the program94% of program spendingIn fiscal year 2025, food & friends' community dietitians worked one-on-one with seriously ill clients to provide them with medical nutrition therapy, providing: 1,495 nutrition assessments to food & friends' clients living with life-challenging illnesses. This nutrition counseling typically includes a professional evaluation of a client's health status, a diet analysis, and in-depth medical nutrition therapy tailored to each client's needs. These services are also free of charge to recipients, and in tandem with food & friends' meal deliveries, reduce social isolation, improve mental health, and create supportive human bonds. Food & friends cultivates relationships and facilitates a caring community that surrounds its clients in order to provide a positive impact.
$846,353 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,107,466.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $35M to $44M (+26%).
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: 2018 41% · 2019 40% · 2020 38% · 2021 29% · 2022 29% · 2023 29% · 2024 22% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of FOOD & FRIENDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Carrie Stoltzfus
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 54 funders to 94 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.2M.
28 of 210 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 & FRIENDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 210 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 & FRIENDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
46% 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 & FRIENDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 14% · 2019 21% · 2020 15% · 2021 15% · 2022 9% · 2023 16% — 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
52% of FOOD & FRIENDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 & FRIENDS INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 & FRIENDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FOOD & FRIENDS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.5M on record.
- Grant$13.5M
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 & FRIENDS 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD & FRIENDS 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 & FRIENDS INC?
- FOOD & FRIENDS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 210 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,577,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,796,998). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD & FRIENDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 210 organizations giving $19,577,890 in grants to FOOD & FRIENDS INC, 137 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD & FRIENDS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,796,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD & FRIENDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 210 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