South Carolina · Nonprofit
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 306 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,261,550 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($11,268,068). 192 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $90M
- Funders on record
- 306
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Lowcountry Food Bank Inc does
Mission
To unite our community in pursuit of equitable, dignified and consistent access to food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food Distribution: The Lowcountry Food Bank's (LCFB) mission is unite our community in pursuit of equitable, dignified and consistent access to food. Since 1983, we have been the premier hunger-relief organization in the 10 coastal counties of South Carolina (Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper and Williamsburg). In 2024, the LCFB distributed, in partnership with approximately 230 partners, over 45.8 million pounds, including over 17.5 million pounds of fresh produce to over 200,000 food-insecure children, seniors and families across coastal South Carolina. The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) served approximately 3,123 seniors monthly.
$83,373,427 spentof which $75,542,565 as grants$3,254,816 earned by the program99% of program spendingChild and Senior Hunger-Relief Programs: Lowcountry Food Bank reaches children and seniorsthrough multiple programs. Through our BackPack Buddies program, we reached over 3,000children a week during the school year, distributing more than 80,286 BackPack Buddies bags. We partnered with 24 schools to reach students and their families through either pre-packed boxes or an onsite market, distributing over 156,928 pounds of food. Through our Kids Cafe program, we work with afterschool program partners to provide children 133,484 supper meals and/or snacks daily at 27 sites. During the summer months, we worked with summer camps to distribute over 18,089 meals to 16 sites. Our Fresh for Kids program distributed more than 31,924 pounds of fresh produce to students and their families. The seniors and veterans in our community continued to be fed through our partnerships with Meals on Wheels and other organizations reaching seniors and other homebound adults; more than 151,776 prepared meals delivered to seniors and 2,310 meals to our veterans.
$1,213,007 spentof which $1,213,007 as grants$1,031,835 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,586,434.
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 $13M to $24M (+85%).
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 6% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 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. 0 of the last 8 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
Nick Osborne
President & CEO
Board chair
Rich White
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 135 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $4.9M.
39 of 306 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $130k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lowcountry Food Bank Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 306 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
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
76% 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 LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 42% · 2019 34% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 38% · 2023 27% — broadly stable.
“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 LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 35 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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 LOWCOUNTRY 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 South Carolina
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
99%
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
- Lowcountry Food Bank Endowment Fund · exempt
- Lowcountry Food Bank Property Holdings · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOWCOUNTRY 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 LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC?
- LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 306 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,261,550 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($11,268,068). 192 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 306 organizations giving $33,261,550 in grants to LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC, 192 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $11,268,068 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC 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.
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 306 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