Texas · Nonprofit
REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK
REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK (Texas) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,297,120 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($10,519,103). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Regional East Texas Food Bank does
Mission
Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Backpack program - the backpack program helps to alleviate child hunger by providing hungry children with nutritious and easy to prepare food at times when other resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations.kids cafe/snack program - the kids cafe and afterschool snack program helps alleviate child hunger by providing hungry children with nutritious meals at times when other resources are not available, such as afterschool.summer food program - the summer food program serves children in low-income communities who participate in free and reduced feeding programs during the school year.mobile pantry - the mobile pantry program reaches out to feed hungry east texans who live in isolated, rural communities without access to emergency food assistance.fresh produce program - the fresh produce program distributes fresh fruits and vegetables to clients through partner agencies.east texas food bank garden - the east texas food bank garden program provides an additional source of fresh produce for hungry east texans through partnership with the smith county sheriff's office and the smith county agricultural extension office.nutrition education - the nutrition education…
$67,900,609 spentof which $60,831,987 as grants$3,552,457 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,900,609.
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.
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 $19M to $33M (+74%).
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 16% · 2018 17% · 2019 24% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 40% · 2023 42% · 2024 38% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
David Emerson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Leslie Harrison
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $625k → $3.0M.
13 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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: $1.7M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest East Texas Communities Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK raised.
From the IRS filings of REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% 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
88% 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 REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 38% · 2019 64% · 2020 36% · 2021 75% · 2022 43% · 2023 43% — 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
45% of REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
64% of REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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.
Organizations like REGIONAL EAST TEXAS 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 Texas
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
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- East Texas Food Bank Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK?
- REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK (Texas) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,297,120 to it, the largest being FEEDING TEXAS ($10,519,103). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $33,297,120 in grants to REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK?
- FEEDING TEXAS is the largest funder on record, with $10,519,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 62 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