Louisiana · Nonprofit
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK (Louisiana) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,459,370 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,671,775). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 116
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank does
Mission
Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The purpose of the feeding the hungry program is to provide one of life's most basic essential food to the food insecure. 16.6 million pounds of life-sustaining food was distributed in 2024, which can provide up to 12.8 million meals. The Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank serves as a clearinghouse to procure, process, and distribute food in mass quantities to our 140 partner agencies in an 11-parish area, which include pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and mobile pantries that feed the most in need in our community. All food is provided to agencies and clients free of charge, unlike other food banks across the country.
$30,338,602 spentof which $3,112,494 as grants98% of program spendingThe backpack program's purpose is to help mitigate the negative impact inadequate nutrition has on the health and well-being of children and their ability to learn by providing nutritionallybalanced, child-friendly food items in a discreet backpack on the weekends/holidays wehn they are not in school and unable to access the school lunch. Backpacks are sent home with childfriendly, nutritious food items every week to provide food for the weekends. During the 2023-2024 school year, we served 32 schools and 2,540 students.
$646,840 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,985,442.
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 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $30M (+62%).
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 8% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. 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 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
Michael Manning
President & CEO
Board chair
Em Leblanc Cooper
Chair - resigned
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $925k → $2.4M.
19 of 116 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $4.6M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Feeding Louisiana); $850k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gbrfb Mission Support). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 116 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
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 41% · 2019 36% · 2020 62% · 2021 61% · 2022 42% · 2023 64% — 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
52% of GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Organizations like GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK
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 Louisiana
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
- Gbrfb Mission Support · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK?
- GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK (Louisiana) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,459,370 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,671,775). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 116 organizations giving $16,459,370 in grants to GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $7,671,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 116 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