New York · Nonprofit
FOODLINK INC
FOODLINK INC (New York) receives grants from 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,376,799 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,785,289). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72M
- Funders on record
- 169
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Foodlink Inc does
Mission
To leverage the power of food to end hunger and build healthier communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
As the regional feeding america food bank, foodlink partners with hundreds of organizations to convene the emergency food system across a ten-county service area, including allegany, genesee, livingston, monroe, ontario, orleans, seneca, wayne, wyoming, and yates counties. The food bank collects, stores, and distributes millions of pounds of purchased and donated food to its 350+ member agencies, including food pantries, schools, shelters, and more. In addition to supporting brick-and-mortar sites, foodlink utilizes pop-up pantries to deliver emergency food to individuals in rural and underserved areas. Due to transportation barriers, limited social services, and economic challenges, these communities face heightened food insecurity. The mobile nature of pop-up pantries allows for rapid, flexible response to local needs, distributing fresh, nutritious food at over 60 sites. Each pop-up pantry event typically serves 200 - 300 families and distributes 12,000 - 13,000 pounds of food. In fiscal year 2025, foodlink's food bank distributed a total of 25,820,809 pounds of food, which equates to 21,158,774 meals.
$51,806,979 spentof which $6,871,026 as grants$9,444,642 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe foodlink community kitchen produces nearly 11,000 healthy snacks and scratch-made meals per day during the school year and nearly 200,000 meals during the summer months as the lead provider of summer meals. Foodlink currently serves over 113 meal sites, including schools, after school programs, childcare centers, senior centers/sites, and summer programs, providing nutritious meals to thousands of children and seniors in monroe county. The meals produced are scratch-made, nutritious meals that go well beyond the federal nutrition guidelines and raise the bar on the quality of institutional meal service. In fiscal year 2025, foodlink produced 522,649 breakfasts, 1,001,275 lunches, and 610,738 snacks and secured $776,546 to support the production and distribution of these meals for at-risk meal programs.
$7,433,875 spentof which $2,467 as grants$5,340,169 earned by the program12% of program spendingFoodlink's community health programs support food access and education through a variety of programs. The curbside market program brings fresh, affordable food to low-income neighborhoods across rochester through mobile markets that make weekly stops at affordable housing sites, senior centers, health clinics, and community centers. This program promotes food access by serving areas that lack traditional grocery stores and by accepting benefits such as snap, wic, double up food bucks, and more. The foodlink community farm is the largest urban farm in rochester at 2.3 acres and consists of community garden plots that serve over 100 local families, a commercial growing operation, an edible education center for school and community programming, a greenhouse for year-round growing, and a public pocket park. Foodlink's community-focused initiatives also include nutrition education, food safety classes, and benefits navigation support, all provided across a variety of settings in the community. In fiscal year 2025, foodlink performed 31,932 transactions at the curbside market, produced 3,544 pounds of produce at the community farm, and reached 3,349 people through nutrition education…
$2,786,984 spent$384,380 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,947,460 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,975,298.
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 $12M to $25M (+112%).
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 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% · 2024 17% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of FOODLINK INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Board chair
Bonnie Devinney
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $272k → $2.9M.
23 of 169 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $36k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foodlink Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FOODLINK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FOODLINK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 169 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
FOODLINK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
69% 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 FOODLINK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 30% · 2019 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 32% · 2022 18% · 2023 22% — 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
47% of FOODLINK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
52% of FOODLINK INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
FOODLINK INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding FOODLINK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$837k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
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 FOODLINK 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 New York
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
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- 585 Lexington Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Foodlink Foundation Inc · exempt
- 585 Lexington Benefit Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOODLINK INC?
- FOODLINK INC (New York) receives grants from 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,376,799 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,785,289). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOODLINK INC have?
- IRS filings report 169 organizations giving $23,376,799 in grants to FOODLINK INC, 105 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOODLINK INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $4,785,289 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOODLINK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 169 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