Louisiana · Nonprofit
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 308 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,578,720 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($17,182,892). 160 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91M
- Funders on record
- 308
- Grants received
- $44M
- Net assets
- $72M
What Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana does
Mission
To lead the fight against hunger and build food security in south louisiana by providing food access, advocacy, education and disaster response.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community programs - distributed 38,616,252 pounds of food product to 326 charitable organizations throughout 23 civil parishes in south louisiana.
$90,636,761 spentof which $73,937,609 as grants$2,093,772 earned by the program96% of program spendingChildren programs - distributed 999,873 pounds of food product to 136 charitable organizations throughout 18 civil parishes in south louisiana.
$3,324,596 spentof which $1,905,215 as grants$135,985 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,961,357.
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 $44M to $78M (+79%).
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 23% · 2018 24% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% · 2024 42% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jon Toups
President and CEO
Board chair
William Hoffman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 101 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $4.0M.
41 of 308 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $31M from 23 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust); $14M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Feeding Louisiana). These are real filings, and they are not money SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA raised.
From the IRS filings of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 308 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 GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% 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
71% 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 GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 44% · 2019 36% · 2020 38% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 41% — 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
38% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA's funding base is broadening — from 35 funders to 101 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $374k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$374k
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 GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
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
93% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA?
- SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 308 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,578,720 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($17,182,892). 160 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA have?
- IRS filings report 308 organizations giving $43,578,720 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA, 160 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $17,182,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA 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.
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 308 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