Texas · Nonprofit
Tarrant Area Food Bank
Tarrant Area Food Bank (Texas) receives grants from 286 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,914,459 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($15,633,228). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156M
- Funders on record
- 286
- Grants received
- $58M
- Net assets
- $80M
What Tarrant Area Food Bank does
Mission
Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to go hungry. We believe that access to healthy food is a basic human right. All people should have access to regular, nutritious meals. Through this dialogue, we will strive to continuously improve. TAFB WORKS TO ALLEVIATE HUNGER IN TARRANT, DENTON, PARKER AND 10 OTHER NORTH TEXAS COUNTIES BY PROVIDING FOOD, EDUCATION AND OTHER RESOURCES TO A NETWORK OF APPROXIMATELY 450 PARTNER AGENCIES.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food distribution Tarrant Area Food Bank, founded in 1982, is a primary source of donated food for approximately 450 hunger relief agencies and feeding programs in fort worth, texas and 13 surrounding counties. In fy 2025, Tarrant Area Food Bank provided access to 56 million nutritious meals through its network of partner agencies, mobile solutions, nutrition education and social service programs. These meals were provided in the form of groceries for clients to take home, hot meals served on site, or healthy snacks served during a group activity.
$141,614,135 spent$1,741,691 earned by the program98% of program spendingChildren's programs tafb serves children through "ready to learn", which includes youth feeding and youth programs that focus on food, education, and advocacy. 107 in-school markets provide access to kid-friendly, nutritious groceries in local schools, offering convenience and variety to youth and their families on-site at a title I campus. New in-school markets were installed in 58 schools in fy 2025. The in-school snack program provides title I schools with kid-friendly snacks for students during school hours as a supplement in between meals. The hunger + hope program is a food insecurity education module developed for the hope squad program, a school-based peer support group. The curriculum is now available not only in more than 100+ schools in our service area, but was also adopted by the national hope squad, reaching thousands of students nationwide. Most recently, we launched our after school and summer camp program that provides age-appropriate nutrition, gardening, and food banking education for youth pre-k - 12th grade and our junior ambassador program that is available to high school students who are ready to lead, serve and advocate for hunger issues affecting their…
$2,312,378 spent2% of program spendingEducational and outreach programs in fy25, our community nutrition team conducted nutrition education programs across our service area teaching neighbors how to cook nutritiously and grow their own food. Our community garden and farm programs supported over 60 partner gardens, and we harvested more than 34 tons of fresh produce for local neighbors and partner agencies. Tafb offers warehouse logistics job training graduates that links graduates with vetted employer partners who pay a living wage, offer healthcare benefits, and have career advancement opportunities. Healthcare partnerships in fy25, we developed new and deepened existing new healthcare partnerships with hospital systems medical clinics, and health plans. We continued our food box home delivery program for homebound patients, and established a healthcare referral process connecting patients to community resources such as snap, wic, and medicaid. Tafb's registered dietitians provided nutritonal guidance, and supported healthcare providers' utilization of food insecurity screenings and referral processes to ensure their patients are connected to food and nutrition resources. Food is medicine in fy25, tafb continued its…
$957,762 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $144,884,275.
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 $33M to $51M (+55%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 8% · 2022 13% · 2023 9% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Julie Butner
President & CEO
Board chair
Ty Stimpson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 131 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $11M.
34 of 286 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Tarrant Area Food Bank raised.
From the IRS filings of Tarrant Area Food Bank’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 286 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
Tarrant Area Food Bank leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 54%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 Tarrant Area Food Bank.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 28% · 2019 38% · 2020 23% · 2021 42% · 2022 32% · 2023 48% — 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 Tarrant Area Food Bank's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
55% of Tarrant Area Food Bank's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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.
Government funding Tarrant Area Food Bank receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
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 Tarrant Area Food Bank
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- TAFB-Distribution Center Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tarrant Area Food Bank: 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 Tarrant Area Food Bank?
- Tarrant Area Food Bank (Texas) receives grants from 286 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,914,459 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($15,633,228). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tarrant Area Food Bank have?
- IRS filings report 286 organizations giving $57,914,459 in grants to Tarrant Area Food Bank, 166 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tarrant Area Food Bank?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $15,633,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tarrant Area Food Bank find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 286 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