Montana · Nonprofit
NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK
NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK (Montana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,490,870 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,088,147). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What North Valley Food Bank does
Mission
North Valley Food Bank builds food security and strengthens communities through food assistance services and culinary and nutrition education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
North Valley Food Bank (nvfb) builds food security and strengthens communities. Nvfb served more than 1,200 neighbors each week in 2025 through our free grocery store in whitefish, and mobile pantries in trego, olney, and essex. Additionally, nvfb delivers commodity and rescue food to seven partner pantries across northwest montana. We distributed hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh, nutritious food and offered customers a dignified, no-barrier shopping experience. Highlights in this fiscal year include: between july of 2024 and june of 2025, nvfb facilitated 23,700 food bank visits - an all-time high for our organization. Nvfb grew our farm to food bank program and partnered with local farms to rescue and glean 11,500 pounds of surplus produce and purchased over 41,000 pounds of seasonal crops. Nvfb culinary arts manager and volunteers transformed rescued and local food into 12,680 ready-to-(h)eat meals for older adults, families, and neighbors without kitchens, providing nourishment during uncertain times. Nvfb rescued over 200,000 pounds of high-quality food from grocery stores and local businesses, keeping food out of landfills. Nvfb serves on the montana food pantry…
$2,544,043 spentof which $1,403,728 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,544,043.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.7M to $2.2M (+34%).
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.
99% of NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $82k → $772k.
8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 VALLEY FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 VALLEY FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 59% · 2019 38% · 2020 38% · 2021 42% · 2022 34% · 2023 40% — 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
64% of NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
58% of NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH VALLEY 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK?
- NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK (Montana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,490,870 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,088,147). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $4,490,870 in grants to NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK?
- WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,088,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 40 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing