Ohio · Nonprofit
FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
FREESTORE FOODBANK INC (Ohio) receives grants from 378 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,092,357 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($10,836,211). 238 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88M
- Funders on record
- 378
- Grants received
- $78M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Freestore Foodbank Inc does
Mission
Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Freestore foodbank has served our neighbors in need for 54 years, starting in cincinnati, ohio and expanding to a 20-county region in ohio, kentucky and indiana. The mission of freestore foodbank is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community. Our vision is a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community. To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect families to supportive services and ensure hope through pathways from crisis to stability including programs for long-term stability and workforce development. The majority of the organization's revenue comes from food and product donations (non-cash contributions). Financial contributions are obtained to support our programs and services with the goal of eliminating food insecurity in our region. Freestore foodbank supplied over 47 million meals in the 2025 fiscal year, helping to serve the 250,000 food insecure individuals in our region (according to feeding america's map the meal gap). A trusted network of more than 540 community partners helps freestore foodbank to distribute emergency food and other social services. Member agencies include: soup kitchens, shelters, food…
$72,740,259 spentof which $357,748 as grants$5,304,442 earned by the program89% of program spendingLocated in cincinnati's over-the-rhine neighborhood, freestore foodbank's customer connection center and liberty street market serve as vital resources for our community's most vulnerable neighborsincluding individuals experiencing homelessness, unemployment, the working poor, and families in crisis. During the 2025 fiscal year, liberty street market distributed emergency food assistance to nearly 50,000 households, helping ensure local families had access to nutritious meals.in addition, the bea taylor market on rosenthal way provides fresh and shelf-stable food options, supporting more than 50,000 households annually. Beyond addressing hunger, freestore foodbank works every day to promote stability and self-sufficiency through services such as housing support, transportation assistance, clothing resources, benefits enrollment, financial management, and job placement
$8,715,190 spent$57,816 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,455,449.
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 $9.9M to $38M (+284%).
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 31% · 2018 28% · 2019 40% · 2020 29% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 15% · 2024 22% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of FREESTORE FOODBANK 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. 4 of the last 9 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
Kurt Reiber
CEO / president
Board chair
Dwinelva Zackery
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 72 funders to 165 funders, grant income rose $3.0M → $9.9M.
38 of 378 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $14M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Freestore Foodbank Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FREESTORE FOODBANK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FREESTORE FOODBANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 378 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
FREESTORE FOODBANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
60% 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 25% · 2019 28% · 2020 22% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 17% — 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
50% of FREESTORE FOODBANK 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
76% of FREESTORE FOODBANK INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
FREESTORE FOODBANK INC is better cushioned 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
Organizations like FREESTORE FOODBANK 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
- Fg-Gbh LLC · disregarded
- The Freestore Foodbank Foundation · exempt
- Corwine Foundation · exempt
- Fg-Hope · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC?
- FREESTORE FOODBANK INC (Ohio) receives grants from 378 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,092,357 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($10,836,211). 238 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREESTORE FOODBANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 378 organizations giving $78,092,357 in grants to FREESTORE FOODBANK INC, 238 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREESTORE FOODBANK INC?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,836,211 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREESTORE FOODBANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 378 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