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SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 326 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,775,998 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($15,119,711). 177 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172M
- Funders on record
- 326
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General food distribution: collection, warehousing, and distribution of product from local and national food industry donors, community food drives, and purchases to non-profit agencies with feeding and/or food distribution programs. The food is provided to partner agencies at a greatly reduced cost. The partner agencies provide the food to people in need at no cost. 62,661,975 pounds of food were distributed which provided approximately 52,786,693 meals.
$152,786,780 spentof which $135,053,504 as grants92% of program spendingVended meal program: a healthy meal service program that produces and distributes prepared unitized meals to community partners serving seniors and children. In the last fiscal year, this program distributed approximately 1 million meals.
$2,628,871 spent2% of program spendingRetail rescue: a food rescue program where our team picks up nutritious perishable and non-perishable food products in refrigerated vehicles monday-friday from over 490 different retail store locations throughout central florida. The food is then brought back to our facilities and inspected for quality and safety. Once the products are approved by on-site training professionals at the food bank, it is distributed either at no-cost, or at a very minimal cost to more than 600 second harvest food bank member agencies who in-turn distribute to clients. The grocery alliance program distributed 32,942,922 pounds of food that provided approximately 27,452,435 meals.
$1,882,242 spent1% of program spendingBenefits connection is a snap outreach program, designed to educate and assist potentially eligible low-income households enroll in the program. Our specialists provide service at partner agencies, community centers, libraries and community events to assist potential applicants. These neighbors might lack access to a computer, need support navigating an online application, have transportation/mobility challenges, be misinformed on eligibility factors, and those with literacy or language barriers. Last fiscal year, the team processed 4,155 applications in (orange, brevard, osceola, seminole,volusia, and lake) counties resulting in an estimated $11.7 million in annualized snap benefits for the community, which is over 3 million snap meals.kids cafe: a healthy meal service program that provides food exclusively to needy children during after school hours monday through friday. 27 kids cafes sites in 5 counties served 185,429 meals in addition to providing a safe and accessible site for children with nutrition education and activities. Fresh and nutritious meals from our community kitchen are prepared and delivered daily during the county academic year. Donated food also helps support…
$8,165,657 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,463,550.
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 2023 to 2024, from $48M to $57M (+19%).
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 17% · 2018 12% · 2019 19% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% · 2024 18% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Perry Crawley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 121 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $6.6M.
45 of 326 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 326 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
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
81% 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 51% · 2019 36% · 2020 31% · 2021 52% · 2022 32% · 2023 34% — 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
42% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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.
Government funding SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Labor$775k
- Department of Agriculture$394k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$200k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC?
- SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 326 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,775,998 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($15,119,711). 177 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 326 organizations giving $44,775,998 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC, 177 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $15,119,711 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 326 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