Maryland · Nonprofit
MANNA FOOD CENTER INC
MANNA FOOD CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,341,944 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,944,515). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 183
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Manna Food Center Inc does
Mission
Manna food center, inc strives to end hunger in our community through education, advocacy, and food distribution to individuals and partner agencies. Manna's guiding principles are to be service-driven, community- centered and transformational.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Manna food center, inc. (the organization) is a nonprofit organization that is montgomery county, maryland's largest community based organization that is focused on food security and community health. For more than four decades, the organization has been a reliable "thread" in the social safety net for the vulnerable that require a supplement of nutritious food and as a center for education and action. The organization's work is built on three priorities that create an unique and comprehensive approach to hunger relief. Priority 1:strengthen and expand services collaboratively to address food insecurity and community health more effectively. Priority 2: fortify our capacity and sustainability to optimize impact and support the future priority 3: advocate for healthy food, a resilient food system, and systems change. The organization distributes to an average of 5,500 families approximately 50 pounds of fresh vegetables, pantry stables, breads, and frozen meats each month. This program serves 38,000 individuals as well as dozens of peer agencies with more than 3 million pounds of food. This program is run at 8 sites and includes delivery to qualifying families. Our school-based…
$6,019,833 spentof which $3,732,988 as grants51% of program spendingManna food center, inc distributes food through a network of almost 80 montgomery county public elementary schools. The program fills a critical gap by providing food to children and their families during the school year to ensure they have nutritious food to eat during the weekend. The program distributed half a million pounds of food to nearly 40,000 children this past school year. One of the organization's newer initiatives, schoolbased pantries, continued to expand by 3 additional pantries resulted in the organization's almost doubling service numbers, supporting 41,000 school age children and family members overall, including 45,515 pounds of produce and pantry staples at the pantries.
$1,685,973 spentof which $1,244,733 as grants14% of program spendingCommunity food rescue (cfr): is a first-of-its kind, coordinated food recovery network led by the organization and building on the former food for agencies program. By partnering with a range of hunger relief organizations, volunteers and businesses, the initiative is making sure that edible food reaches hungry neighbors. Cfr builds upon the work of establishments already recovering good food before it is thrown away and identifies new donors. State-of-the-art technology makes real-time matches based on geography and transportation options. Trainings and mini-grants are offered to build capacity and increase food-rescuing capabilities.
$859,565 spentof which $208,982 as grants7% of program spendingManna additionally made 120,000 of purchases from local farms and farmers markets, provided 2,500 lyft rides to participants with limited transportation access, conducted 54 workshops and cooking classes, made 6,800 home deliveries, and screened 950 applicants for snap eligibility.
$3,287,845 spentof which $2,384,427 as grants28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,853,216.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.6M to $10M (+54%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 34% · 2024 36% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MANNA FOOD CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Craig Rice
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $878k → $1.5M.
30 of 183 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 183 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 CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
70% 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 CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 30% · 2020 14% · 2021 34% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% — 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
37% of MANNA FOOD CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
54% of MANNA FOOD CENTER 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 $6.2M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 CENTER INC is better cushioned than half 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 CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Grant$150k
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 CENTER 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANNA FOOD CENTER 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 CENTER INC?
- MANNA FOOD CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,341,944 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,944,515). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MANNA FOOD CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 183 organizations giving $13,341,944 in grants to MANNA FOOD CENTER INC, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANNA FOOD CENTER INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,944,515 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANNA FOOD CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 183 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