Ohio · Nonprofit
THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION
THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,771 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($498,403). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $616k
- Net assets
- $32M
What The Freestore Foodbank Foundation does
Mission
To provide income to the freestore foodbank, its sole beneficiary, on a dependable, year-to-year basis, helping ensure the freestore foodbank's long-term financial stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Freestore Foodbank Foundation is the endowment fund for freestore foodbank (fsfb). All undesignated bequests to the fsfb go to the foundation, as well as specifically designated donations. Foundation assets have grown significantly in recent years. This earnings growth has permitted the foundation to become increasingly important to the mission of the fsfb, contributing significantly to agency operations. The board is comprised of community leaders, financial experts and fsfb board members.
$1,210,088 spentof which $1,210,088 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,210,088.
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. 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 $13M to $22M (+68%).
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.
68% of THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Kurt L Reiber
CEO / president
Board chair
Sandy Kaltman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $117k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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: $7.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Freestore Foodbank Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 48% · 2021 52% · 2022 88% · 2023 94% — 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
50% of THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
97% of THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $598k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Freestore Foodbank Inc · exempt
- Corwine Foundation · exempt
- Fg-Hope · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION?
- THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,771 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($498,403). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $615,771 in grants to THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $498,403 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 8 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