Michigan · Nonprofit
GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK
GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK (Michigan) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,022,937 to it, the largest being Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ($6,390,793). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 99
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Greater Lansing Food Bank does
Mission
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Greater Lansing Food Bank's core program is the large-scale warehousing and distribution of food for those in need, which is done through a variety of methods including mobile distributions, emergency food kits, a member agency network and other non-profit community partners. Greater Lansing Food Bank partnered with a network of more than 299 agencies and other community partners during the fiscal year. 13,057,182 pounds of food were distributed during the fiscal year throughout a seven-county service area in mid-michigan.
$22,587,153 spent$823,944 earned by the program98% of program spendingThe garden project - this program offers resource support to grow and training opportunities relating to growing techniques for limited resource or socially disadvantaged individuals. Tools, water, access to land and land prep, support, seeds and training are provided by the food bank. 10,318 gardeners were served by 91 community garden sites.
$476,956 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,064,109.
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 $7.7M to $14M (+77%).
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 13% · 2018 7% · 2019 16% · 2020 21% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 15% · 2024 31% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
Michelle Lantz
CEO
Board chair
Mona Deliwala
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $288k → $1.6M.
18 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 LANSING FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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 LANSING FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 LANSING FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 22% · 2020 34% · 2021 50% · 2022 33% · 2023 28% — 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
50% of GREATER LANSING 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
75% of GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK 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 GREATER LANSING 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: 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 LANSING FOOD BANK?
- GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK (Michigan) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,022,937 to it, the largest being Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ($6,390,793). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $15,022,937 in grants to GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK?
- Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,390,793 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK 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 99 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