Michigan · Nonprofit
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 417 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,604,604 to it, the largest being Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ($19,839,079). 259 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94M
- Funders on record
- 417
- Grants received
- $83M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan does
Mission
We exist to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food and related resources. We accomplish this through collaboration, efficient operations, education, and innovative solutions to achieve a hunger-free community in southeastern michigan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Gleaners concluded its sponsorship of the summer food service program (sfsp) in fy2025 and the child and adult care food program (cacfp) after the 2024 - 2025 school year. In fy2025, gleaners sponsored 16 cacfp sites and served 58,864 suppers to children in need during the 2024 - 2025 school year.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Gleaners core activity involves securing, storing, and distributing nutritious food to those in need via a network of community partners, schools, and programs located throughout wayne, oakland, macomb, livingston and monroe counties. In fy2025, gleaners food distributions totaled 47.5 million pounds, equating to over 39 million meals. To supplement our network of partner agency food distributions in fy2025, we maintained a network of 22 equivalent gleaners run bi-weekly mobile food distributions focused on underserved communities. These community mobiles served 188,378 meal packages through 498 distributions in fy2025, including fresh produce and milk, along with shelf stable and frozen food staples. Distributions through these community mobiles totaled 6.9 million pounds of the 47.5 million pounds of total food distributions.in fy2025, gleaners served students and families through monthly school mobile food distributions at 39 sites with 1.5 million pounds of food.gleaners senior mobile pantries bring nutritious food to low-income senior living communities. Gleaners provided 256,000 pounds of food, through monthly food distributions, to nine senior housing sites. Gleaners also…
$82,637,948 spentof which $72,601,805 as grants$6,261,371 earned by the program98% of program spendingThe child and adult care food program (cacfp) is a usda funded program administered in michigan by the michigan department of education. This program provides suppers to low-income children at schools and organizations providing after-school enrichment programming for youth throughout the school year. During the 2024 - 2025 school year, gleaners sponsored 16 sites and served 58,864 suppers to children in need.
$548,765 spent$580,957 earned by the program1% of program spendingCooking matters (cm) and food smarts (fs) are both national nutrition education programs that teach low-income families (both adults and children) how to prepare healthy meals economically and make healthier food choices. Fs is unique in that it brings a trauma-informed and more reflection approach to the educational content. Both are led by employee and volunteer chefs and nutritionists. In fy2025, nearly 1,200 people graduated from the program. Cm and fs are both still offered virtually and in-person, however the majority of classes take place in-person.
$829,207 spent$477,812 earned by the program1% of program spendingOur volunteer program creates experiences for people to engage in hunger-relief work. From packing food for community mobile, school mobile, or senior food distributions to working the front lines directly serving consumers at our shared harvest pantry in howell, fresh! By gleaners pantry in warren, or fresh market pantry mobile distributions in southwest detroit, volunteers play a critical role in packing and distributing food to our neighbors experiencing food insecurity. Over 19,000 volunteer shifts were completed in fy2025 comprising over 51,000 service hours, representing the equivalent of 24 full-time workers.
$180,192 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,196,112.
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 $17M to $36M (+111%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN’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.
Chief executive
Gerald Brisson
President & chief executive officer
Board chair
Damali Sahu
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 95 funders to 167 funders, grant income rose $3.4M → $9.5M.
40 of 417 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 417 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
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 23% · 2021 35% · 2022 13% · 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
47% of GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN'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
83% of GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gleaners Distribution Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN?
- GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 417 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,604,604 to it, the largest being Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ($19,839,079). 259 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN have?
- IRS filings report 417 organizations giving $82,604,604 in grants to GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN, 259 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN?
- Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc is the largest funder on record, with $19,839,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 417 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