Indiana · Nonprofit
HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC
HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,163 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ($125,778). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $389k
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $123k
What Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry Inc does
Mission
The mission of hoosiers feeding the hungry is to obtain donations of livestock, deer, and funds to provide processed meat to indiana food banks, food pantries, and related organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of hoosiers feeding the hungry is to secure donations of livestock, deer, and financial contributions to provide processed meat to indiana food banks, food pantries, and related organizations. In 2025, 1,532 animals were processed by 49 indiana meat processors, resulting in 84,676 pounds of frozen ground meat packaged in one-pound portions and distributed through 142 nonprofit agencies across 58 counties. Hoosiers feeding the hungry coordinates two key programs that advance this mission: meat4forks program through this program, the organization accepted donations of 174 hogs, 19 cattle, 195 chickens, 18 lambs, and 8 goats. These animals were processed through a network of qualified indiana meat processors, yielding 33,813 pounds of finished meat distributed to communities in need across the state. Hunt for hunger program in partnership with the indiana department of natural resources, law enforcement division, hoosiers feeding the hungry serves as one of three nonprofit partners helping to facilitate this initiative. Hunt for hunger enables hunters to donate legally harvested in indiana, field-dressed white-tailed deer to a network of participating processors. In 2025,…
$268,839 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $268,839.
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 2023 to 2024, from $142k to $52k (−64%).
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 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 9% · 2020 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 16% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $52k → $196k.
16 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
48% 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 HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 9% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% — 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
39% of HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY 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
65% of HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $453k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC?
- HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,163 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ($125,778). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $1,080,163 in grants to HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,778 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 54 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