Ohio · Nonprofit
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK (Ohio) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,151,317 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,550,019). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank does
Mission
To enable other community organizations to end hunger. We strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Distribute food to various agencies, group homes, and organization providing meals and food baskets to the needy. Increased marketing and development activities with the addition of a second golf outing. Launched pantries with partnering schools.
$11,873,259 spent$245,599 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,873,259.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.4M to $11M (+53%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 24% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK’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. 1 of the last 8 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
James M Caldwell
President & CEO
Board chair
Norman A Bell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $253k → $1.6M.
16 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 59% · 2021 82% · 2022 69% · 2023 56% — 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 TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK'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
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 2 related entities
- James C Caldwell Community Center · exempt
- Second Harvest Community Services · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK: 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 TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK?
- TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK (Ohio) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,151,317 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($7,550,019). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $12,151,317 in grants to TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $7,550,019 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 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