Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 852 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,514,177 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,771,511). 529 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179M
- Funders on record
- 852
- Grants received
- $157M
- Net assets
- $76M
What Greater Boston Food Bank Inc does
Mission
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low income seniors. Last year, we distributed over 109 million pounds of food, the equivalent of over 90.9 million meals. We are committed to increasing our food distribution to provide at least three meals a day to every person in need in eastern massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Gbfb acquires food through food industry product donations, food drives, and financial contributions that enable us to purchase additional high-nutrient quality food. We also benefit from the generosity of over 18,000 volunteers annually who help sort and distribute donated food products. Gbfb works to acquire, store, organize and distribute food through local food pantries, community meal programs, shelters, youth programs, senior centers and other community centers in the 190 cities and towns of eastern massachusetts that gbfb serves. Gbfb's food assistance locator provides an easy way for people in need to find help nearby. Gbfb also distributes food directly to those in need through dedicated programs that serve particularly vulnerable groups, such as seniors and children. Since 2009, gbfb has operated out of a state-of-the-art 117,000 square-foot food distribution facility, the yawkey distribution center, located in the newmarket section of boston. The greater boston food bank is a member of feeding america, the nation's largest hunger-relief organization.
$155,136,150 spentof which $140,661,187 as grants$7,953,733 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $155,136,150.
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 $26M to $56M (+118%).
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 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 16% · 2022 22% · 2023 33% · 2024 40% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Catherine D'Amato
President/chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 133 funders to 350 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $21M.
59 of 852 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 852 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 BOSTON FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
68% 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 BOSTON FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 18% · 2021 22% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% — 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
48% of GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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
53% of GREATER BOSTON 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 $73M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84M 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.
Government funding GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $252.8M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$250.2M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.6M
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 GREATER BOSTON 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 Massachusetts
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gbfb Realty Corporation · exempt
- 100 Topeka Street Realty Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER BOSTON 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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC?
- GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 852 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,514,177 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,771,511). 529 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 852 organizations giving $156,514,177 in grants to GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC, 529 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,771,511 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 852 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