Alabama · Nonprofit
HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC
HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC (Alabama) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,628,640 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,111,997). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc does
Mission
The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The structure of our organization provides increased opportunity for success to the local community agencies we support by collecting, sorting (both dry/staple and cold/frozen) and distributing food. Along with four smaller affiliated food banks (afbs) under our supervision, we have a service area reaching to 35 of alabama's 67 counties (with a population of approximately 1,614,000) and more than 600 community agencies. Our mission is to provide food to the children, elderly, newly unemployed, workking poor, homeless, mentally challenged, and victims of domestic violence and disasters. During our last fiscal year, we distributed more than 29 million pounds of vital nutrition to those in need.
$48,271,384 spentof which $42,709,255 as grants$1,127,576 earned by the program100% of program spendingWithin our service area, 21% of the population are food insecure. Of that total, 20% of adults and 25% of children are living in poverty. One of our most effective strategies in combating this pervasive problem is our mobile pantry program. This program is designed to go to where the neediest are, and distribute food directly through our partner agencies. This program allows us to target remote communities in alabama's "black belt" area (chronically among the most poverty-stricken regions in the nation) as well as metropolitan areas. In fy25, we distributed 15,317,585 pounds of food through this outreach effort.
$90,399 spent$58,537 earned by the program0% of program spendingApproximately 23% of seniors (60 years & older) in our service area are living in poverty. In our most impoverished county, that percentage jumps to over 36%. In order to help offset the needs of our seniors, we established a senior supplement program that, in fy25, provided between 37 pounds of nutritious food on a monthly basis to 720 seniors. We also provide two extra boxes in november and december specifically targeting the preparation of holiday meals.
$62,132 spent$34,782 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,423,915.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.5M to $22M (+127%).
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 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 20% · 2020 40% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 39% · 2024 36% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michael Coleman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $153k → $3.3M.
10 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $1.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Inland Empire Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 59% · 2019 59% · 2020 42% · 2021 75% · 2022 61% · 2023 82% — 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
47% of HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 HEART OF ALABAMA 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- East Alabama Food Bank · exempt
- Selma Area Food Bank · exempt
- Wiregrass Area Food Bank · exempt
- West Alabama Food Bank · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC?
- HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC (Alabama) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,628,640 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,111,997). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $23,628,640 in grants to HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,111,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 86 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