Tennessee · Nonprofit
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,980,249 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,187,676). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee does
Mission
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee is dedicated to compassionately feeding east tennesseans experiencing hunger & engaging the community in the fight to eliminate hunger.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Second harvest food bank serves clients through mobile distributions when local community lacks infrastructure. The food for kids program serves students weekly to supplement food over the weekends. The food rescue program reduces food waste by rescuing food from grocers, restaurants, and farmers to reroute it from landfills to partner agencies.
$47,529,680 spentof which $346,024 as grants$4,061,658 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,529,680.
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 $14M to $30M (+114%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. 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.
Chief executive
Elaine Streno
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $577k → $1.9M.
28 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 EAST TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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 EAST TENNESSEE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 EAST TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 22% · 2020 32% · 2021 80% · 2022 27% · 2023 29% — 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
43% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
58% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE'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 $9.3M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE
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 Tennessee
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
97%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: 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 OF EAST TENNESSEE?
- SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,980,249 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,187,676). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $21,980,249 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,187,676 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 111 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