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HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 434 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,779,567 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,054,902). 263 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 434
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc does
Mission
The mission is to lead our community in the fight against hunger. The vision is that no one has to go hungry in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Partner agency program distributed 32,807,516 pounds of food to those who are hungry throughout our five-county footprint. The partner agency relies on a vetted network of partner agencies. Our agencies include social service agencies, faith-based congregations, non-profits, and community organizations. As trusted extensions of our mission, we provide our partner agencies roughly 75% of their food inventory. Partner agency membership and compliance, food procurement and food transportation, coupled with food management, are the essential elements that comprise the program, allowing it to operate effectively and efficiently.
$71,652,923 spent85% of program spendingFulfill mobile pantry program distributed 4,311,408 pounds of food to those who are hungry throughout our five-county footprint. The goal of the fulfull mobile pantry program is to expand the capacity of harry chapin food bank to make food more accessible in underserved and high need areas where families with limited resources may not be able to access food through traditional grocery stores.
$9,416,115 spent11% of program spendingCare and share senior feeding program distributed 1,552,585 pounds of food to individuals over the age of 60 years with gross income at or below 2.65% of the federal poverty line in charlotte, collier and lee counties. For the seniors enrolled in the program, their nutritional needs are being supplemented by our monthly food distributions.
$3,390,846 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$277,922 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,737,806.
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 2024 to 2025, from $33M to $52M (+58%).
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 27% · 2018 17% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 38% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’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. 1 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.
Board chair
Dan J Frate
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 182 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $7.7M.
61 of 434 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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: $2.3M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The United Way of Lee County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 434 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
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
81% 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 HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 34% · 2019 35% · 2020 21% · 2021 35% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% — 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 HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 191 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 191 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hcfb Holding Company Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 434 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,779,567 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,054,902). 263 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 434 organizations giving $45,779,567 in grants to HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC, 263 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $7,054,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 434 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing