Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,091,347 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($10,232,908). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 161
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Share Food Program does
Mission
As the largest serving hunger-relief organization in the greater philadelphia region, Share Food Program's mission is reducing regional food insecurity by providing nourishing food to a network of community-based partners and directly to individuals in need. Over the course of 2024 share served more than 2.6 million individuals in philadelphia, bucks, chester, delaware, and montgomery counites.Share Food Program leads the fight against food insecurity in the greater philadelphia region by serving an expansive, quality partner network of community-based organizations and school districts engaged in food distribution, education, and food justice advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency food relief- Share Food Program is the leading hunger relief organization in the region and one of the largest independent food banks in the nation. Its work targets the region's highest-poverty neighborhoods and serves families and communities facing the challenges of systemic poverty, racism, and marginalization. Through a diverse partner network of nearly 367 food pantries, mutual aid groups, houses of worship, and other community organizations, share delivers millions of pounds of nourishing food to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children, seniors, and families across philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs of delaware, montgomery, bucks, and chester counties each month. The urgent need for food assistance programming continues to rise; in the last three years, share has seen a 120% increase in the number of individuals it serves each month.
$22,920,388 spent76% of program spendingCommunity food programs- Share Food Program's ("share") core offerings include the administration of the emergency food assistance program (tefap), through which it ensures that hungry residents have equitable access to nourishing food. Share is also the only nonprofit in the nation to manage the regional national school lunch program, providing nutritious food to over 250,000 of the region's students across 806 schools and 60 districts. In addition, share feeds nearly 7,000 vulnerable older adults through its senior food box program and leads the region in home deliveries of food assistance to seniors, with approximately 3,000 receiving food boxes directly at their doorstep through an innovative partnership with doordash. Its philly food rescue program sources surplus food and redistributes it to communities in need, diverting 500,000 lbs. Of fresh food from landfills every month. Nice roots farm, share's onsite urban agricultural education project, donates over 5,000 lbs. Of organic produce to the surrounding community and hosts 20+ field trips for local students each year. Share Food Program also supplies fresh produce and nutritional education to approximately 1,100 families…
$7,206,709 spent24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,127,097.
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 2022 to 2023, from $22M to $38M (+76%).
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 73% · 2018 75% · 2019 72% · 2020 80% · 2021 80% · 2022 89% · 2023 75% · 2024 85% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SHARE FOOD PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
George Matysik
CEO
Board chair
Tracey Specter
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $524k → $13M.
21 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SHARE FOOD PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
52% 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 SHARE FOOD PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 50% · 2019 44% · 2020 24% · 2021 42% · 2022 60% · 2023 40% — 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
44% of SHARE FOOD PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
94% of SHARE FOOD PROGRAM's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SHARE FOOD PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.5M
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 SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SHARE FOOD PROGRAM: 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 SHARE FOOD PROGRAM?
- SHARE FOOD PROGRAM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,091,347 to it, the largest being FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA ($10,232,908). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHARE FOOD PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $38,091,347 in grants to SHARE FOOD PROGRAM, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHARE FOOD PROGRAM?
- FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $10,232,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHARE FOOD PROGRAM 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.
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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 161 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