Maryland · Nonprofit
THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 489 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,470,212 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($13,738,013). 325 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107M
- Funders on record
- 489
- Grants received
- $69M
- Net assets
- $58M
What The Maryland Food Bank Inc does
Mission
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The maryland food bank (mfb) provides food assistance to individuals and families in need through a statewide food assistance network of community partners, from the western mountains to the eastern shore. In fy25, mfb, through this food assistance network, distributed 52.3 million pounds of food to individuals in need, enough food to provide 43.6 million meals. Our trucks were on the road nearly every day, distributing donated and purchased food to a network of almost 800 community-based partners. The maryland food bank served an estimated 1,021,729 neighbors in fy25, across 21 maryland counties and baltimore city. At mfb, food is just the beginning. We are meeting the need for access to nutritious food and we are building pathways to food security to reduce the need for food access long-term. Distributing food efficiently and equitably will always be vital to our mission. We also recognize the need to solve the hardships that make people food insecure in the first place, opening up pathways toward greater resiliency. By working in close collaboration with partners, neighbors, and supporters, we continue to meet the rising need, while navigating higher food prices and lower…
$93,951,555 spentof which $2,907,854 as grants$12,016,331 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $93,951,555.
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 2019 to 2020, from $29M to $55M (+88%).
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 15% · 2018 15% · 2019 19% · 2020 23% · 2021 23% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% · 2024 25% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Carmen Del Guercio
President and CEO
Board chair
Terry Squyres
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 88 funders to 211 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $8.8M.
51 of 489 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 489 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 MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
60% 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 MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 28% · 2019 28% · 2020 17% · 2021 24% · 2022 14% · 2023 23% — 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
49% of THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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 THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M 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 THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $87.8M on record.
- Grant$87.8M
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 MARYLAND FOOD BANK 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK 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 MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC?
- THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 489 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,470,212 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($13,738,013). 325 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 489 organizations giving $69,470,212 in grants to THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC, 325 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $13,738,013 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 489 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