Iowa · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK (Iowa) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,919,502 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,376,725). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Northeast Iowa Food Bank does
Mission
To provide nutritious food and grocery products to nonprofit organizations and individuals in northeast iowa, while offering hunger education programs to the community and those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Northeast Iowa Food Bank includes multiple options for food distribution including:cedar valley food pantry - provided an average of 4,620 families each month with supplemental food and grocery products to those who fall under the federal poverty guidelines. Member agency distribution - food is distributed to over 127 member agencies in our 16 county service area, including pantries, community meal sites, day care facilities and other community programs.backpack program - provided over 127,400 bags of food to 155 schools for children each week during the normal school year. The food is provided for kids to make sure they have food over the weekend when school is not in session.kids cafe - provided over 64,699 meals and snacks for kids after school by partnering with multiple after school programs.elderly nutrition program - provided an average of 1,054 individuals monthly with food. We distributed over 128,080 meals in partnership with area agencies on aging and senior sites for seniors who are homebound or need food over the weekend when senior meal sites are not operational.mobile food pantry - provided over 1 million meals to 13 communities in northeast iowa, serving over…
$21,484,910 spent$552,468 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,484,910.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $17M (+22%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 35% · 2023 17% · 2024 24% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of NORTHEAST IOWA 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. 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
Barbara Prather
Executive director
Board chair
Emily Girsch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $371k → $1.7M.
15 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
85% 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 NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 40% · 2019 28% · 2020 31% · 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 38% — 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
60% of NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M 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
NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 NORTHEAST IOWA 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHEAST IOWA 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 NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK?
- NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK (Iowa) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,919,502 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,376,725). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $13,919,502 in grants to NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $4,376,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 77 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