Washington · Nonprofit
RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK
RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,423,729 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,366,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 116
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Rainier Valley Food Bank does
Mission
Our mission is to nourish with good food, empower with knowledge, and serve with compassion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food bank: Rainier Valley Food Bank is one of the busiest food banks in seattle. In 2024, rvfb distributed 1.1 million pounds of food to nearly 6,000 households. Twice a week, we provided access to healthy food, including meat and fresh vegetables, at our pop-up distribution sites during our facility renovation. We also distributed food through home delivery, to-go bags for those without cooking facilities, and in backpacks for students at local schools.
$2,994,563 spentof which $1,964,458 as grants97% of program spendingThe rvfb helpline program assisted 57 people in 2024 with direct financial assistance. We also served 800 guests with referrals to and enrollments in outside programs to promote independence through housing, employment, and other social services.
$94,130 spentof which $72,128 as grants3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,088,693.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $17M (+49%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Gloria Hatcher-Mays
Executive director
Board chair
Margaret Gofman
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $99k → $1.3M.
18 of 116 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 116 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
RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 27% · 2020 55% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — 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
41% of RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
80% of RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M 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
RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 612 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 612 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RAINIER 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 RAINIER VALLEY 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 RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK?
- RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,423,729 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,366,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 116 organizations giving $12,423,729 in grants to RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,366,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 116 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