Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SHARE OUR STRENGTH
SHARE OUR STRENGTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1166 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,584,194 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($31,700,574). 512 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90M
- Funders on record
- 1,166
- Grants received
- $236M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Share Our Strength does
Mission
All children and families deserve to live free from hunger and poverty. We're going to make that happen. We're helping communities feed children with our no kid hungry campaign and addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. It's a big job, but we're not alone. We believe that everyone has a strength to share.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Today 14 million kids live in families that struggle with hunger. Share Our Strength is the only national nonprofit dedicated to ending child hunger in America. For over 40 years, we have been guided by one clear vision-to create an equitable nation where all children, families and communities have the nutrition and resources they need to thrive. We work to reduce child hunger by: providing grants for child nutrition programs; advocating for strong federal and state nutrition programs; providing technical, outreach, and regulatory guidance; and hosting opportunities for nutrition leaders to share solutions. To reduce summer hunger, we supported expansion of the Summer EBT (SUN Bucks) grocery benefits program and summer meal services in rural areas. We supported 40 states, Tribal Nations, and DC in operating Summer EBT programs and granted $3.1 million to help rural summer meal programs in 28 states and Puerto Rico. To help feed school kids, we granted over $1.3 million to 43 school districts in 12 states to support access to breakfast, enabling school districts to reach an additional 32,500 students in 279 schools.
$28,374,635 spentof which $9,347,050 as grants58% of program spendingNutrition benefits programs like SNAP are our nation's critical line of defense against hunger, providing stability and security to families during times of hardship. Share Our Strength works to make sure that accessing federal nutrition benefits is a seamless easy-to-understand process for all families and that state agencies have the technology and practices in place to process applications efficiently to make this a reality. We provided grant and technical support to help state agencies modernize their SNAP systems through improved data sharing, stronger inter-agency collaboration, and outreach to families. This work enabled $240 million in additional SNAP benefits to reach 1.3 million participants. We established a SNAP Parent & Caregiver Advisory Council so individuals with lived SNAP experience can inform SNAP modernization. We led a national network and provided grants to support the expansion of Medicaid-based nutrition services.
$7,965,778 spentof which $2,266,100 as grants16% of program spendingShare Our Strength is the only national organization supporting and convening skilled and committed partners to build a family economic mobility movement in America. Drawing on 40 years of expertise in the food security and poverty spaces, we are advancing strategies that will bolster the family economic stability of a very key caregiver group in our nation that is heavily impacted by food insecurity-single mothers. To prevent hunger, we advanced solutions that improve single mothers' economic mobility. Working with and supporting more than 30 partners nationwide, we: secured $2.6 billion in state Child Tax Credits, benefiting 6.1 million children; expanded childcare subsidies to 17,000+ children in the South; helped 30,000+ families receive an average $14,000 annual income increase; and implemented grocery delivery pilots helping 1,200+ households save time and maximize SNAP benefits. We brought together more than 40 partners at our annual Bridge Builders Summit to strengthen coordination across our hunger and economic mobility work.
$4,656,857 spentof which $1,473,000 as grants9% of program spendingOther program services include the international program that supports school meals and breakfast in India, and other No Kid Hungry programs.
$8,087,679 spentof which $1,521,169 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,084,949.
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 2019 to 2020, from $54M to $128M (+135%).
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 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SHARE OUR STRENGTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (25% 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
Anne Elizabeth Filipic
CEO
Board chair
William H Shore
Founder, Executive Chair, Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 127 funders to 303 funders, grant income rose $8.0M → $27M.
95 of 1166 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1166 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
SHARE OUR STRENGTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 32% · 2019 13% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 33% · 2023 38% — 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
26% of SHARE OUR STRENGTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
SHARE OUR STRENGTH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 47 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89M arriving through sponsors registered in 31 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
SHARE OUR STRENGTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SHARE OUR STRENGTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record — $1.9M federal, $4.1M state.
- Department of Agriculture$990k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$956k
- MA$3.3M
- MD$792k
- FL$4k
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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% 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 31 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Wealth Partners Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHARE OUR STRENGTH: 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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH?
- SHARE OUR STRENGTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1166 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,584,194 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($31,700,574). 512 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHARE OUR STRENGTH have?
- IRS filings report 1166 organizations giving $235,584,194 in grants to SHARE OUR STRENGTH, 512 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHARE OUR STRENGTH?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $31,700,574 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHARE OUR STRENGTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 1166 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