Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI (Wisconsin) receives grants from 217 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,093,372 to it, the largest being FEEDING WISCONSIN INC ($8,349,097). 136 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59M
- Funders on record
- 217
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi does
Mission
Second harvest foodbank exists to end hunger in southwestern wisconsin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Tefap commodity food was accepted for the first time this fiscal year.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Since 1986, Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin has partnered with hundreds of local agencies and organizations across 16 counties. We are southwestern wisconsin's largest hunger-relief organization, distributing tens of millions of pounds of food each year. Through food acquisition and distribution, advocacy, communitypartnerships, and the support of thousands of volunteers, we are making our vision - a community where everyone has enough nutritious food to thrive - a reality. Every day, we prove that lives can be changed with food.second harvest relies almost entirely on philanthropic generosity to support nearly 300 partner agencies and programs across southwestern wisconsin. In fy25, we distributed 26.3 million pounds of food - slightly less than fy24, which set a record for the most food ever distributed in our history. Each year, approximately 76 percent of the food we provide is nutrient-rich, including fresh produce, meat, dairy, and milk. Between january and june 2025, we sourced more than 230,000 half-gallons of milk and rescued 5.6 million pounds of safe, edible food from retail partners that would have otherwise gone to waste, redistributing it through our…
$50,139,550 spentof which $43,730,496 as grants$3,483,439 earned by the program99% of program spendingFood share outreach - shfb provides application assistance to potentially eligible applicants.
$489,594 spent1% of program spendingThe emergency food assistance program is a usda program that purchases nutritious foods and provides them to food banks and other partners for distribution. This was the first year second harvest food bank of southern wisconsin participated as a pass-through agency for tefap, distributing more than 1,500,000 pounds of these commodities for this fiscal year.
$95,514 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,724,658.
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 2019 to 2020, from $14M to $21M (+52%).
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
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
Michelle Orge
Executive director/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 79 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $7.1M.
33 of 217 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 217 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
57% 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. $8.4M 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.
Against its field
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
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 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI?
- SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI (Wisconsin) receives grants from 217 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,093,372 to it, the largest being FEEDING WISCONSIN INC ($8,349,097). 136 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI have?
- IRS filings report 217 organizations giving $35,093,372 in grants to SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI, 136 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 217 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