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SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,932,056 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($4,840,349). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$23M
Funders on record
63
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
$15M
32/63 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc does

Mission

The mission of the second harvest food bank of northwest pennsylvania is to provide food to those in need within eleven counties of northwest pennsylvania while creating awareness and educating the community on the realities of hunger.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Collection, storage, and distribution of food to people in need through a network of nonprofit charitable agencies.

    $20,508,192 spentof which $15,372,330 as grants$346,204 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,508,192.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2022 Revenue 74 ($17M) Expenses 80 ($17M) Net assets 94 ($13M)2023 Revenue 85 ($20M) Expenses 98 ($20M) Net assets 91 ($12M)2024 Revenue 98 ($23M) Expenses 108 ($23M) Net assets 96 ($13M)2025 Revenue 99 ($23M) Expenses 105 ($22M) Net assets 108 ($15M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (99)Expenses (105)Net assets (108)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $14M (−14%).

$16M
$14M
$13M
$14M
$15M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 37% · 2022 20% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 276 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
’21
$274k
’22
−$815k
’23
−$58k
’24
$981k
’25
0.8
months of
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed1919171718
Joined·+2+3+0+4
No longer listed·2503
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $505k → $2.3M.

20 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 NW PA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 NW PA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% 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 NW PA INC.

29%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 30% · 2019 28% · 2020 39% · 2021 38% · 2022 21% · 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

46% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

65% of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
NC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC?
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,932,056 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($4,840,349). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC have?
IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $16,932,056 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC?
FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $4,840,349 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 63 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