Kentucky · Nonprofit
GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC
GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,616,684 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,684,879). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90M
- Funders on record
- 145
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $29M
What God's Pantry Food Bank Inc does
Mission
The mission of god's pantry food bank is reducing hunger by working together to feed kentucky communities. God's pantry food bank envisions a nourished life for every kentuckian.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
God's pantry food bank is the largest food bank in kentucky and includes one-third of the state geographically and by population within its service area. Its mission is reducing hunger by working together to feed kentucky communities. Its vision is a nourished life for every kentuckian. To reach the 280,000+ food insecure kentuckians within its 50-county service area, the food bank distributes more than 51 million pounds of food annually through more than 500 food pantries and meal programs that provide groceries or meals at no cost to clients experiencing hunger. The food bank is a feeding america affiliate. The food bank is not a religious organization and does not give preference or refuse service to any client or partner agency based on ethnicity, gender, religion, or other defining characteristic.
$78,063,248 spentof which $63,940,973 as grants$1,678,340 earned by the program95% of program spendingThe food bank works with nonprofit partners in every county within its service area. In some areas, there are still not enough food resources to meet the need. In those cases, the food bank operates the mobile pantry program, a direct food delivery program used to serve counties with higher-than-average food insecurity and health and income disparities and lower food distribution service. With this program, our refrigerated trucks deliver a selection of nutrient-dense food directly into counties in need. In fy25, the mobile pantry program operated in 22 counties and provided a reliable source of healthy groceries, including meat, milk, and fresh produce, to families.
$3,614,673 spentof which $3,614,673 as grants4% of program spendingGod's pantry food bank aims to reach anyone who is hungry in the 50 counties it serves, but some populations require specific strategies to be successful. Senior citizens are at a higher risk for food insecurity due to limited incomes and increased health challenges. In partnership with the kentucky department of agriculture, the food bank directly provides food to an average of more than 14,000 senior citizens each month through the commodity supplemental food program. The program provides a selection of healthy basic staples for seniors at 78 locations. Once enrolled, clients receive a selection of nutritious foods at the same site, day, and time monthly. Usda is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.
$654,129 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $82,332,050.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $17M to $31M (+82%).
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 43% · 2018 31% · 2019 45% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 35% · 2023 30% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michael J Halligan
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $416k → $3.1M.
25 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 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
GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 44% · 2019 19% · 2020 18% · 2021 73% · 2022 55% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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 GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
50% of GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK 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 $13M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Government funding GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.5M
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 GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK 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 Kentucky
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
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK 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 GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC?
- GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,616,684 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,684,879). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $25,616,684 in grants to GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,684,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 145 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