South Carolina · Nonprofit
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK (South Carolina) receives grants from 201 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,433,159 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($10,827,790). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 201
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Harvest Hope Food Bank does
Mission
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. We rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. We operate programs that provide food for our most vulnerable citizens: children, seniors, and rural residents who don't have access to grocery stores. We also run our own emergency food pantries in greenville and columbia, where anyone in need can get a week's supply of groceries for free.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Partner agency food distribution: since 1981, Harvest Hope Food Bank primarily distributes food through a network of over 400 partner agencies. These agencies are non-profit organizations such as emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, after-school programs, and transitional homes. This allows harvest hope to reach individuals and families facing hunger directly within their communities across 20 counties in south carolina. Harvest hope takes on the responsibility of sourcing, collecting, storing, and transporting large quantities of food. This relieves the burden on partner agencies, allowing them to focus their time, energy, and resources on providing direct services to low-income individuals. Harvest hope provides valuable support to its partner agencies, offering technical assistance on various aspects, including program models, safe food handling and storage, and public policy and advocacy.
$34,463,479 spent$1,334,336 earned by the program80% of program spendingBackpack and cfsp programs:the Harvest Hope Food Bank's backpack program is a crucial initiative focused on providing weekend meals to children facing hunger in south carolina. Recognizing that many children rely on school meals as their primary source of nutrition, this program aims to bridge the gap during weekends and school breaks when these resources are unavailable. The program directly tackles the issue of food insecurity that many children experience when they are not in school. It ensures that these vulnerable children have access to nutritious food throughout the weekend. Harvest hope's backpack program acts as a vital safety net, providing essential weekend nutrition to children who might otherwise go hungry, thereby supporting their well-being and development. The Harvest Hope Food Bank participates in the commodity supplemental food program (csfp), a federal nutrition program administered by the u.s. Department of agriculture (usda). This program is specifically designed to improve the health of low-income individuals who are at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious usda foods.in addition to providing food, the csfp program through harvest…
$1,917,463 spent4% of program spendingEmergency food pantry:while Harvest Hope Food Bank primarily operates through a network of partner agencies to distribute food, they also run their own direct emergency food pantries at some of their facility locations. These pantries serve as a direct point of access for individuals and families facing immediate food needs. These direct pantries are an integral part of harvest hope's broader mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina, complementing their work with partner agencies and other programs.
$6,931,209 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,312,151.
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 $5.8M to $14M (+145%).
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 16% · 2018 13% · 2019 21% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2023 29% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HARVEST HOPE 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. 2 of the last 7 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
Erinn Rowe
CEO
Board chair
Jada Willis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.5M.
29 of 201 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 201 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
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 50% · 2019 47% · 2020 40% · 2021 44% · 2022 55% · 2023 41% — 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
35% of HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like HARVEST HOPE 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 South Carolina
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
98%
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 2 related entities
- Harvest Hope House LLC · disregarded
- House for Harvest Hope LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARVEST HOPE 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 HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK?
- HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK (South Carolina) receives grants from 201 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,433,159 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($10,827,790). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 201 organizations giving $25,433,159 in grants to HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK, 103 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $10,827,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 201 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