Oklahoma · Nonprofit
LAWTON FOOD BANK INC
LAWTON FOOD BANK INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA ($548,679). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $775k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Lawton Food Bank Inc does
Mission
To provide food and essential resources to low-income individuals and families across southwest oklahoma through emergency and supplemental programs, mobile and collaborative distributions, and strong community partnerships while upholding dignity and advancing long-term food security. Families who visited the food bank in 2025 received enough food for their family for 6 days and a total value of food ranging in 110-210 based on their household size.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The lawton food bank's food resource center and mobile market provide free groceries to food insecure oklahomans, utilizing a drive through pantry model. In 2025 we distributed 1,640,489 pounds of food to 52,480 neighbors in need.
$4,002,321 spent100% of program spendingThe food bank provides food boxes the needy families daily. Each box contains approximately 60 worth of food. In addition to the programs described on form 990, part iii, sections 4a, 4b, and 4c, the lawton food bank operates several supplemental initiatives designed to expand access to nutritious food for individuals and families in need. The produce pop-in program, led by volunteers, provides 20-30 pounds of fresh produce to participating households on a monthly basis, increasing access to nutritious foods that are often costly and highly perishable. Through the food for seniors program, the lawton food bank serves 216 prequalified seniors each month by distributing approximately 30 pounds of heart-healthy food per participant, supporting improved nutrition and positive health outcomes among older adults.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,002,321.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $2.5M (+18%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 1%. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $63k → $93k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 LAWTON FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
LAWTON FOOD BANK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 LAWTON FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 99% · 2019 87% · 2020 51% · 2021 64% · 2022 69% · 2023 72% — 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
38% of LAWTON FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
84% of LAWTON FOOD BANK INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like LAWTON 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAWTON FOOD BANK INC: 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 LAWTON FOOD BANK INC?
- LAWTON FOOD BANK INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA ($548,679). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWTON FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $774,500 in grants to LAWTON FOOD BANK INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWTON FOOD BANK INC?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA is the largest funder on record, with $548,679 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWTON FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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