Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,754,690 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,037,098). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 139
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc does
Mission
The food bank's mission is to provide nutritious food to non-profit organizations that feed the hungry in darien, greenwich, new canaan, norwalk, stamford and wilton ct., while seeking to raise awareness of, and promote action to combat, hunger in those communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The food bank receives contributions from private and government sources and makes food readily accessible to approximately 70 member agencies and programs which feed thousands of people in lower fairfield county.
$2,751,317 spent$84,290 earned by the program96% of program spendingThe food bank has an ongoing program to maintain public awareness of the hunger in lower fairfield county as part of its primary mission. In part, this awareness and education is achieved through presentations to schools and service organizations.
$117,747 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,869,064.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $5.6M to $7.1M (+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: 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Duncan Lawson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $117k → $602k.
17 of 139 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 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
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
41% 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 THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 14% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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 THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: 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 THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC?
- THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,754,690 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,037,098). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $4,754,690 in grants to THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,098 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 139 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