North Carolina · Nonprofit
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 200 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,852,300 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($14,519,841). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102M
- Funders on record
- 200
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc does
Mission
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Second harvest food bank donated product: donated products are acquired from a broad range of sources (receipts: 41,745,778 pounds for 06/30/25) and distributed (distribution: 41,935,986 pounds for 06/30/25) from second harvest food bank's 130,000 square foot distribution facility. The distribution program helps more than 302 partner agencies provide 492 separate feeding programs that feed those facing food insecurity within an 18-county service area. All partner agencies may pick up food from the warehouse. Many counties in our service area also have the option of using the rural delivery program. Second harvest food bank staff and board members advocate and educate target audiences, increasing visibility of hunger issues in our communities through marketing, public relations and government relations programs. Backpack program: the backpack program is a program of feeding america and aims to address childhood hunger in rural and urban communities by providing school children at risk of hunger with backpacks full of nutritious child-friendly foods to take home over the weekend during the school year. As of 06/30/25, second harvest food bank operates 81 program sites in…
$90,774,188 spentof which $82,505,935 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $90,774,188.
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 $19M to $32M (+69%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 13% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
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
Eric A Aft
CEO
Board chair
Tonya Deem
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $535k → $4.4M.
42 of 200 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 NORTHWEST NC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 200 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 NORTHWEST NC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 NORTHWEST NC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 64% · 2019 42% · 2020 34% · 2021 59% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — 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
40% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 NORTHWEST NC INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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 OF NORTHWEST NC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
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 NORTHWEST NC 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Tck Providence Inc · exempt
- Shfb Nwnc Headquarters Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC?
- SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 200 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,852,300 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($14,519,841). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC have?
- IRS filings report 200 organizations giving $35,852,300 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC, 99 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $14,519,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 200 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