North Carolina · Nonprofit
MANNA FOOD BANK INC
MANNA FOOD BANK INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 408 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,141,255 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,133,125). 157 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 408
- Grants received
- $55M
- Net assets
- $79M
What Manna Food Bank Inc does
Mission
Mission: to involve, educate, and unite people in the work of ending hunger in western north carolina. Vision: a hunger-free western north carolina where everyone has access to nutritious food and the opportunity to thrive. Manna exists to ensure that no one in our mountain communities faces hunger alone. Every day, our staff, partners, and volunteers work to provide access to healthy food and to create pathways toward lasting stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organizational overview manna foodbank carries the honor and weight of responsibility of being the sole food bank serving western north carolina and the qualla boundary. We procure and distribute food to more than 220 nonprofit partner agencies, 100 schools, and direct to neighbors through community markets. Our service area encompasses 6,434 square miles, including many rural areas and underfunded communities with high rates of food-insecurity. Therefore, to ensure that those in need receive food, we deliver to the most remote locations on a regular basis. The counties manna serves include many communities in rural, underfunded areas, buncombe, cherokee, clay, graham, haywood, henderson, jackson, macon, madison, mcdowell, mitchell, polk, swain, transylvania, yancey counties and the qualla boundary. At manna, we focus on food for today, food for tomorrow, and food for a lifetime. We respond to immediate hunger needs, strengthen access to nutritious food in local communities, and work toward lasting change so that everyone can count on a steady source of nourishment. Every part of our work, sourcing food, supporting partners, and listening to our neighbors, is centered on helping…
$40,491,856 spentof which $31,854,740 as grants86% of program spendingHealthy opportunities pilot (hop) through north carolina's healthy opportunities pilot, manna serves as the regional lead for food insecurity services. The healthy opportunities pilot in north carolina invests up front in access to nutritious food and other essential supports to improve health outcomes and prevent the need for costly medical care later on. During the fiscal year, manna provided consistent access to healthy food while improving health outcomes for residents with chronic conditions by distributing 128,828 in benefits to over 735 participants,. This work strengthens the link between nutrition and health and helps reduce barriers for people living on a limited income who are managing illness. Public education manna foodbank is a non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public on the issues that affect the people that we serve. We are developing solutions to hunger that are community-driven, equitable, accessible, and value everyone. We are working to end hunger for all western north carolinians through our commitment to providing food for today, food for tomorrow, and food for a lifetime. A year of unprecedented challenge and recovery on september 27,…
$5,745,331 spentof which $4,035,773 as grants12% of program spendingCommunity impact after helene since hurricane helene, manna has distributed more than 15 million meals and delivered generators, propane, coolers, cleaning supplies, and hygiene products to families across western north carolina. Food distribution remains far above pre-storm levels as communities continue to rebuild and recover. This response was only possible because of the extraordinary generosity of our community. Donors, volunteers, farmers, faith groups, corporate partners, and neighbors came together in remarkable ways to donate funds, food, and time when they were needed most. Volunteers helped load trucks and staff emergency distributions. Local businesses opened their doors and shared supplies. Farmers donated produce even while facing their own losses. Every act of kindness helped manna stay on the road and on mission. Together, this region ensured that food reached people who needed it most, proving once again that western north carolina's strength lies in its compassion and unity. Financial stewardship and stability insurance provided essential stability during rebuilding. By june 30, 2025, manna had received 2.08 million in insurance proceeds. These recovery funds…
$705,407 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,942,594.
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 2024 to 2025, from $33M to $83M (+152%).
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 5% · 2019 9% · 2020 18% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% · 2024 22% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MANNA 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. 1 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
Claire Neal
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 94 funders, grant income rose $720k → $2.8M.
66 of 408 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 MANNA FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 408 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
MANNA FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
77% 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 MANNA FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 36% · 2019 33% · 2020 24% · 2021 78% · 2022 18% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of MANNA FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
53% of MANNA FOOD BANK INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 36 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
MANNA FOOD BANK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MANNA FOOD BANK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
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 MANNA 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% 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 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANNA 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 MANNA FOOD BANK INC?
- MANNA FOOD BANK INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 408 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,141,255 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,133,125). 157 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MANNA FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 408 organizations giving $55,141,255 in grants to MANNA FOOD BANK INC, 157 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANNA FOOD BANK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,133,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANNA FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 408 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