Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK
HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,695,998 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($3,887,235). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank does
Mission
Since its inception in 1983, the mission of Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank (hh) is to provide nutritious food to people facing hunger in our communities. In 2024, hh distributed more than 10.5 million pounds of food to low income individuals and families in berks and schuylkill counties, free of charge. Hh began its maternal health program and opened its community kitchen. The kitchen allows hh to accept bulk food donations and prepare an estimated 2,500 ready-to-eat meals weekly.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
See description on line 4b
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank (hhffb) distributes food and grocery products through a network of over 350 programs that are exempt under irs 501 (c)(3).these programs provide food to neighbors in need through pantries, soup kitchens, snack programs, shelters, mobile markets, and direct service programs. Food supplied by helping harvest food bank provided 487,797 individuals and 154,264 households with food from a pantry program while 1,309,535 meals (69,048 unduplicated meals) were provided at soup kitchens, snack programs and shelter programs. Helping harvest food bank operates a warehouse and fleet of distribution vehicles and employs 43 individuals.
$21,594,744 spentof which $13,968,501 as grants$344,889 earned by the program89% of program spendingHelping harvest (hh) worked with our city reading (ocr), a community based nonprofit organization, to construct a community kitchen, which opened in april 2025. Hh receives food packaged in bulk and converts that food into ready-to-eat meals packaged, frozen, and distributed primarily to seniors throughout our network of community programs. During the year ended june 30, 2025, hh continued its fundraising efforts for construction of the kitchen, transferring those donations to ocr. In exchange for the funds raised, hh entered into a long-term lease with ocr with no rental payments. Hh makes monthly payments of $3/sq ft of leased area to ocr for common area maintenance costs.
$2,387,208 spent10% of program spendingThrough hh' s management of the commodity supplemental food program, 2,193 low income senior citizens living in berks and schuylkill counties receive a tote filled with nutritional food every month. This package contains food of high nutritional value and is a supplement for the senior citizens diets. Each month the hhffb delivers the prepackaged totes to more than 100 distribution locations including low income senior high rises.
$152,523 spentof which $133,453 as grants1% of program spendingHelping Harvest Fresh Food Bank develops and supplies the resources needed for operation of the weekender program. This program provides a weekly bag of shelf-stable product to help meet the gap between the free and reduced meals that food insecure children receive in their k-12 schools. Enrollment in the program is conducted at the school by a designated staff member (teacher, counselor, social worker, nurse) who identifies students who are eligible to participate. Helping harvest food bank supports 87 weekender program sites throughout berks and schuylkill counties by providing the food and grocery products needed to fill an average of 4,400 bags weekly.
$2,632 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,137,107.
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 $6.5M to $13M (+97%).
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 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 30% · 2020 25% · 2021 28% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% · 2024 27% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Jeanne Porter
Chair woman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $375k → $1.4M.
14 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 23% · 2019 23% · 2020 31% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 23% — 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
48% of HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
60% of HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
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 HELPING HARVEST FRESH 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 Pennsylvania
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
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK?
- HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,695,998 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($3,887,235). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $16,695,998 in grants to HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK?
- FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $3,887,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 87 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