Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC (Missouri) receives grants from 266 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,007,488 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($12,091,727). 164 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96M
- Funders on record
- 266
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $55M
What St Louis Area Food Bank Inc does
Mission
St. Louis area foodbank is building a stronger bi-state region by nourishing people, empowering communities, and transforming systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The st. Louis area foodbank distributed over 43,000,000 pounds of food through more than 550 partner agencies and community programs (pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, schools, senior centers and other community organizations) located in 14 counties in eastern missouri and 12 counties in southwestern illinois. The foodbank hunger relief programs include partner agency distribution, mobile programs: food access and resource markets (farms) and food on the move, school markets and pantries, disaster relief, senior food box, and transitional housing.(continued on schedule o)hunger relief programs include: partner agency distribution: partners have access to our 24- hour online ordering system. Partners can pick up their order at our facility or have it delivered directly to their agency. More than 80% of our overall distribution is delivered to partner agencies.farms: it takes a variety of foods to provide a healthy diet. Farms provide pallets of fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats and shelf stable products to community partners throughout our service territory. We distributed more than 5.7 million meals to nearly 56,565 families with 592 mobile market distributions.school…
$85,527,559 spentof which $77,624,522 as grants$809,972 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $85,527,559.
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.
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 $37M to $47M (+27%).
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 24% · 2018 25% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% · 2024 31% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Meredith Knopp
President & CEO
Board chair
Amanda Gioia
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 118 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $5.7M.
31 of 266 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 266 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
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 34% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 35% · 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
49% of ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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.
Organizations like ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC?
- ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC (Missouri) receives grants from 266 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,007,488 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($12,091,727). 164 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 266 organizations giving $39,007,488 in grants to ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC, 164 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $12,091,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 266 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