Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 215 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,007,697 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,967,605). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 215
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $39M
What The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc does
Mission
The food bank of western massachusetts' mission is to feed our neighbors in need and lead the community to end hunger. The food bank provides food both directly and through its member food pantries, meal sites, shelters and other social service programs,to an estimated 120,750 individuals monthly who are at risk of hunger and/or food insecure on any given day, week or month of the year. In addition to food distribution, the food bank also provides snap outreach and enrollment, nutrition education, capacity building resources for our region's food assistance network, and public education and advocacy on hunger and, more broadly, food insecurity - not knowing where your next meal will come from.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food operations, delivery, and brown bag: the food bank received 18,031,174 pounds of food and provided 17,992,441 pounds, which is the equivalent of 14,993,701 meals, to approximately 264 frontline food providers, including food pantries, meal sites, shelters and other social service programs. Ultimately, this food assistance network distributed food to 122,669 individuals monthly who experienced hunger or who were at risk of hunger in the four counties of western ma. Of the total food distributed, the food bank used its own trucks to distribute 2,710,258 pounds of food (equivalent to 2,258,548 meals) to 73 frontline food providers - 1) 24 mobile food bank sites serving 26,087 individuals; 30% children and 23% seniors, and 2) 51 brown bag: food for elder sites and 43 satellites - the food bank's "pantry on wheels" program serving 5,272 elders.
$30,802,117 spentof which $26,163,880 as grants$102,386 earned by the program92% of program spendingSupport for local food providers: the food bank offered technical support, professional workshops on fundraising, volunteer management, and trainings in food safety to member food providers. It also provided capacity-building activities for members with the goal of helping them increase efficiency and the amount of food distributed. To carry out this program, the following services/trainings were provided:(1) institute trainings for members in areas such as, fundraising, volunteer management, advocacy, disaster planning, and best practices.(2) network coalition meetings that strengthened the food assistance network in western massachusetts by periodically bringing members together to receive updates from both the food bank and feeding america, and allowing these organizations to network with each other, as well as to learn about best practices.(3) snap outreach and enrollment educated community members about snap (formerly food stamps) and assisted potentially eligible individuals through the application process. In fy25 the food bank submitted for approval 809 applications to the massachusetts department of transitional assistance with a 70% approval rate.(4) provided small…
$633,031 spentof which $135,344 as grants$25,563 earned by the program2% of program spendingNutrition education: provided workshops and materials to both participants and staff of the food assitance network to educate people to eat healthier on a limited budget, including supermarket tours for people to learn how to shop on a budget, read nutrition labels, and understand unit pricing.
$1,552,933 spent5% of program spendingThe food bank staff and volunteers screen individuals for eligibility and assist them with the snap application process, including case management.
$441,869 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,429,950.
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 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $57M (+75%).
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 19% · 2018 22% · 2019 25% · 2020 32% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 40% · 2024 39% · 2025 34%. 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 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
Andrew Morehouse
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 86 funders, grant income rose $527k → $4.0M.
38 of 215 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 215 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 WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% — 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
47% of THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC'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
53% of THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- Department of Agriculture$113k
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 THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS 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 Massachusetts
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
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Food Bank Support Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 215 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,007,697 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,967,605). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 215 organizations giving $28,007,697 in grants to THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC, 124 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,967,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 215 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