Massachusetts · Nonprofit
READING FOOD PANTRY INC
READING FOOD PANTRY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,166 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,475). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $739k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $676k
What Reading Food Pantry Inc does
Mission
To operate a food pantry for people in need in the community, to address hunger and nutrition and to provide associated services as deemed necessary or appropriate related to operation of a community food pantry.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The pantry served 251 households representing 572 individuals for a total of 5,643 visits. Guests are allowed to receive food twice a month by visiting the pantry or by home delivery. The pantry served 3,582 prepared meals cooked in its kitchen, a new offering beginning in february 2026. The pantry sponsored a summer lunch program for approximately 38 households with school age children who are eligible to receive free school lunch during the school year. The pantry is open for food distribution twice per week for in-person visits and twice per month for the delivery program to home-bound neighbors.
$489,884 spent$27,660 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $489,884.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2025 to 2026, from $454k to $676k (+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: 2023 14% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of READING FOOD PANTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $600 → $9k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 READING FOOD PANTRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
READING FOOD PANTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 READING FOOD PANTRY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of READING FOOD PANTRY INC'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
READING FOOD PANTRY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 50 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 50 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like READING FOOD PANTRY INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READING FOOD PANTRY INC: 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 READING FOOD PANTRY INC?
- READING FOOD PANTRY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,166 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,475). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does READING FOOD PANTRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $102,166 in grants to READING FOOD PANTRY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READING FOOD PANTRY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $43,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING FOOD PANTRY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), and the filings of 8 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