Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,801,445 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($1,537,500). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc does
Mission
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. Only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger, and work toward the well being of all people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The merrimack valley food bank provides nutritious food and personal care items to emergency feeding programs serving the low-income, homeless and hungry. The food bank is one of four food banks in massachusetts that serves food pantries, shelters and meal programs that in turn, serve individuals and families.
$6,160,163 spent$65,251 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,160,163.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $10M (+101%).
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 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 51% · 2022 57% · 2023 45% · 2024 47% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK 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. 2 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
Deborah Callery
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $125k → $938k.
17 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $876k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 64% · 2019 35% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 67% · 2023 33% — growing more concentrated.
“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
59% of MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK 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
89% of MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC is better cushioned than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $812k on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$480k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$332k
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 MERRIMACK VALLEY 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 MERRIMACK VALLEY 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 MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC?
- MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,801,445 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($1,537,500). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $5,801,445 in grants to MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $1,537,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 115 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