Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI (Wisconsin) receives grants from 211 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,857,289 to it, the largest being FEEDING WISCONSIN INC ($8,349,097). 133 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 170 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 170 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- CoreGiving Coshared fundersportfolio match
- Hunger Related Eventsportfolio match
- Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 23% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% · 2024 13% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 79 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $7.1M.
32 of 211 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 211 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 FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 28% · 2020 25% · 2021 42% · 2022 23% · 2023 40% — 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
44% of SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
60% of SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 211 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- CoreGiving Coshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Related Eventsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding Pennsylvaniaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- One Against Childhood Hungerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Caplan-Bensley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caliber Collision Centers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chc Creating Healthier Communitiesshared fundersVA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 90 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI?
- SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI (Wisconsin) receives grants from 211 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,857,289 to it, the largest being FEEDING WISCONSIN INC ($8,349,097). 133 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI have?
- IRS filings report 211 organizations giving $34,857,289 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI, 133 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI?
- FEEDING WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,349,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 211funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing