Tennessee · Nonprofit
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK (Tennessee) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,307,381 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($10,837,771). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69M
- Funders on record
- 167
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Mid-South Food Bank does
Mission
Collection & distribution of food to charitable organizations serving those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Distribution of food and non-grocery items to non-profit agencies that serve the ill, needy, children and infants. From july 2024 to june 2025, the food bank distributed approximately 35.7 million pounds of food and non-grocery items to approximately 345 charitable programs.
$67,989,351 spent$1,097,337 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,989,351.
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 $28M to $44M (+55%).
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 23% · 2018 12% · 2019 20% · 2020 19% · 2021 56% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% · 2024 34% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Janet Brueck-Lang
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.8M.
34 of 167 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 167 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
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% 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 MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 49% · 2019 48% · 2020 18% · 2021 55% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — 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
45% of MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M 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.
Against its field
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK has grown faster 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
Organizations like MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Feeding the Need · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: 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 MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK?
- MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK (Tennessee) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,307,381 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($10,837,771). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 167 organizations giving $32,307,381 in grants to MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK, 95 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $10,837,771 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 167 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