Louisiana · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK (Louisiana) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,912,118 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,078,810). 55 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
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Northwest Louisiana Food Bank does
Mission
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The food bank of northwest louisiana is the largest distributor of donated food for bienville, claiborne, webster, red river, desoto, bossier and caddo parishes in northwest louisiana. The food bank works to acquire, sort, warehouse and disribute food to over 150 collaborating non-profit organizations. These non-profit organizations consist of homeless shelters, church food pantry programs, soup kitchens, residential centers, and schools.
$20,911,762 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,911,762.
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 $15M to $26M (+77%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 13% · 2020 21% · 2021 17% · 2022 23% · 2023 17% · 2024 26% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Julie Blewer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $616k → $1.8M.
14 of 87 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.6M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Feeding Louisiana). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 61% · 2021 83% · 2022 54% · 2023 52% — 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
52% of NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 NORTHWEST LOUISIANA 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 $8.8M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA 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 NORTHWEST LOUISIANA 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 Louisiana
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK?
- NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK (Louisiana) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,912,118 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,078,810). 55 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 NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $20,912,118 in grants to NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,078,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 87 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