Texas · Nonprofit
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK (Texas) receives grants from 725 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,367,857 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($27,495,412). 435 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $273M
- Funders on record
- 725
- Grants received
- $168M
- Net assets
- $161M
What North Texas Food Bank does
Mission
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fy25, North Texas Food Bank (ntfb) distributed roughly 110 million meals through a diverse network of about 500 feeding partners that provide food assistance and other wraparound services, helping neighbors in need find food assistance programs and make a lasting change to address the underlying barriers to food security. Generous contributions of food products, funds and volunteer service support multiple programs of the North Texas Food Bank. These programs benefit feeding and education locations in 12 north texas counties, including food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, after-school programs, senior citizen centers, and other social service centers. These feeding partners receive food from the food bank and distribute it to north texans in need through their pantry and on-site meal programs.
$236,136,291 spentof which $220,327,027 as grants$134,945 earned by the program94% of program spendingThe first commodity supplemental food program (known locally as people and nutrition, or pan) provides monthly food packages to low-income senior citizens who meet certain requirements. In 2025, roughly 7,400 participants received monthly an estimated 32 pounds of usda commodities at 57 pan distribution sites in dallas, collin, delta, ellis, fannin, grayson, hopkins, hunt, kaufman, lamar and navarro counties. Pan is a partnership of the u.s. Department of agriculture, texas department of agriculture and ntfb. In fy25, ntfb provided access to 3 million meals through the csfp program.
$6,479,550 spentof which $5,435,017 as grants3% of program spendingThe school pantry program provides eligible students and their families access to non-perishable items, as well as fresh produce, through participating schools. Distributions occur once a month, typically after school. Students who visit the school pantry leave with 20-25 pounds of shelf-stable food items and 15 pounds of produce. School pantry programs operate in schools with at least 90% of students qualifying for free/reduced meals, within close-knit neighborhoods. The program also serves college campuses. During the 2024-2025 school year, ntfb's 43 school pantry sites provided access to nearly 2.6 million meals.
$3,751,928 spentof which $3,226,209 as grants1% of program spendingThe food 4 kids program feeds students facing hunger on the weekends when school feeding programs are closed and students are the most vulnerable. Food 4 kids provides children with backpacks of nutritious food every friday throughout the school year. Each backpack is filled with kid-friendly snacks carefully selected by our nutrition services manager to provide two-thirds of a child's weekend nutritional needs. In the 2024-2025 school year, food 4 kids provided more than 720,000 meals, operated in 255 schools and served an average of 5,500 children facing hunger each week. After participating in food 4 kids, children improved significantly on these measures: exhibited fewer behaviors associated with food insecurity, talked less frequently about issues related to food insecurity, were judged to be more emotionally healthy, and performed better academically.
$1,611,733 spentof which $1,391,789 as grants1% of program spendingThe supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) addressees the nutritional needs of low-income families and is one of the nation's most important defenses against hunger. Ntfb helps to increase enrollment through application assistance and providing snap information in 12 north texas counties to overcome barriers to participation. In fy25, ntfb provided access to 20.6 million meals through the snap program.
$2,695,265 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $250,674,767.
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.
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 $121M to $158M (+31%).
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 19% · 2018 17% · 2019 24% · 2020 28% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 21% · 2024 30% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Trisha Cunningham
President and CEO
Board chair
Ginny Kissling
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 123 funders to 286 funders, grant income rose $6.5M → $24M.
63 of 725 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $7.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ntfb - Perot Family Campus); $191k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation); $6k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest North Texas Food Bank). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 725 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
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 18% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 22% · 2023 14% — 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
44% of NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
70% of NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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.
Organizations like NORTH TEXAS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Feeding North Texas Foundation · exempt
- Ntfb - Perot Family Campus · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK?
- NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK (Texas) receives grants from 725 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,367,857 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($27,495,412). 435 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 725 organizations giving $168,367,857 in grants to NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK, 435 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK?
- FEEDING TEXAS is the largest funder on record, with $27,495,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 725 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