Hawaii · Nonprofit
THE FOOD BASKET INC
THE FOOD BASKET INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,732,873 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($4,525,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Food Basket Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to feed the hungry in hawaii county while attending to the root causes of this critical social problem. The food basket accomplishes its mission by preventing the waste of all edible food in hawaii county, feeding the hungry with this food, educating the community about local hunger and what can be done to solve this social problem, and collaborating with organizations of partnering missions to eradicate the root of hunger and other social ills: poverty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024 the food basket continued its mission to end hunger in hawaii through several emergency food programs. With the help of over 100 partner agencies, including churches, soup kitchens, homeless outreach programs and shelters, we distributed over three million pounds of food to over 600,000 individuals island wide. We served 1,361 qualifying seniors per month through our kupuna pantry program by delivering 30-35 pounds of staple food items received from the usda commodity supplemental food program (csfp) as well as separately funded hawaii island grown local produce and locally produced proteins. We provided food to 21,954 students through the keiki backpack program and to 21,542 students and their family members through the school pantry programs. With our emergency food boxes, distributed on weekdays at our hilo and kona warehouse locations, we assisted 46,701 individuals in need. Our mission to end hunger in hawai'I grows, even after the covid-19 pandemic, and as we see food costs rise, estimated at a 25% increase over the past three years. Through a partnership with the state of hawaii department of human services (dhs), our supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap)…
$12,447,821 spentof which $457,284 as grants$243,354 earned by the program100% of program spendingTo address future hunger issues, we continued our efforts on our agricultural innovation park and food system campus, ho'olako, and were awarded a 1.6 million federal grant from the department of housing and urban development (hud). These funds will assist with accessibility to our 24.5 acres of land and the preparation of our own farm plots, and smaller plots which will be leased to local farmers, as well as the creation of a farmer's market. The name of "ho'olako" (in hawaiian, meaning 'the place that provides') was gifted as a name for the campus by our community's elders in a cultural ceremony on the property. Ho'olako is envisioned as a community gathering place grounded in a shared belief that our community deserves safe, nutritious, fair, and affordable food. The campus will include agriculture crops, a community food center and food bank, a state- of-the-art food innovation center and provide opportunities for food processing and distribution; farm and business incubation; agriculture training and production; cultural and educational programs.
Da bux double up food bucks program continued operations across the state and was available at 71 retail sites, including grocery stores, food hubs, farmer's markets and csas. In 2024, we were awarded a nearly 8.5 million federal grant (almost 17 million with matching funds, including 2 million from the state of hawaii). The program issued over 2.6 million in food nutrition incentives on hawai'I grown fruits and vegetables, with 510 local farms providing produce for the program. It is estimated that over 150,000 snap recipients participate in the program state-wide. Da bux continued its keiki nutrition program with child-based nutrition education books in 'olelo hawai'I (hawaiian) as part of the kai & hoku explore foods of hawaii series, to help families and educators explore local fruits and vegetables with children and to address the trend of high percentages of obesity and chronic diet related diseases among hawai'I's socioeconomically disadvantaged populations.
2024 was the inaugural year for our new program, na kuke 'opio ("the young cook"), a hands-on cooking and nutrition program rooted in hawai'I's food traditions and values. In 2024, the program engaged over 800 keiki across the state - from rural communities like hana and pahala to urban neighborhoods in kalihi and lihu'e - building lifelong skills while connecting families to hawai'I-grown ingredients. Funded by the gus schumacher nutrition incentive program (gusnip), na kuku 'opio thrives through collaborations with community partners including the center for getting things started, grow some good, ma ka hana ka 'ike, ymca of honolulu, farm to keiki, and uh manoa's ctahr programs. In 2024 our kokua harvest program gleaned over 60,000 pounds of fresh produce. Kokua harvest is a community-driven gleaning project that works to reduce food waste at the source, strengthen community ties, and improve access to fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables for all. Kokua harvest recruits volunteers to harvest excess fresh produce from farmers and gardeners that would otherwise go to waste and redistribute the produce back into the community through food distributions to those in need,…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,447,821.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $2.6M to $8.3M (+218%).
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: 2018 5% · 2022 43% · 2023 41% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE FOOD BASKET INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Ann Ebesuno
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $112k → $3.8M.
22 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $161k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hawai'i Pacific Health Group Return). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FOOD BASKET INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FOOD BASKET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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 BASKET INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
29% 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 BASKET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 18% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 41% · 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
28% of THE FOOD BASKET INC'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
THE FOOD BASKET INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 BASKET INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding THE FOOD BASKET INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$18.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M
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 BASKET 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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 THE FOOD BASKET INC?
- THE FOOD BASKET INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,732,873 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($4,525,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOOD BASKET INC have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $13,732,873 in grants to THE FOOD BASKET INC, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD BASKET INC?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOOD BASKET INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 124 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing