Ohio · Nonprofit
West Ohio Food Bank
West Ohio Food Bank (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,259,968 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,769,595). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What West Ohio Food Bank does
Mission
Everyone should have access to healthy, nutritious food. Together with our partners, we provide nutritious food to those in need. We do this through collaborating with more than 100 partner agencies, which include emergency pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, mobile pantries, community-wide food distributions, after-school programs, senior centers, rehab centers, school pantries, medical centers, children services, and police departments to provide food throughout an 11-county service area located in West Central Ohio. For every dollar received at West Ohio Food Bank, we are able to provide up to 5 meals to help to feed our hungry neighbors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Agency - Agencies receive and distribute food and non-food items to food insecure individuals who are at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines throughout West Ohio Food Banks eleven county service area.
$11,651,005 spent$384,221 earned by the program93% of program spendingCSFP - The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) works to improve the health of low-income persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious food.
$583,762 spent5% of program spendingSchool Pantry - The purpose of the school pantry on campus is to provide supplemental food resources to chronically hungry students who do not have access to food at home. The school pantry may fill a gap in a community where access to a regular food pantry is not available.
$245,840 spent2% of program spendingSnack Pack - The snack pack program provides food to children that are found to be most in need by school personnel and who participate in the school meals program at their school. For many of these children, they receive very little, if anything at all, to consume during the weekend time.
$33,227 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,513,834.
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 $4.7M to $7.6M (+63%).
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 27% · 2018 30% · 2019 30% · 2020 52% · 2021 49% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% · 2024 43% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of West 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. 0 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
Tommie Harner
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $271k → $766k.
13 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 West Ohio Food Bank’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
West Ohio Food Bank leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 West Ohio Food Bank.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 52% · 2019 48% · 2020 70% · 2021 93% · 2022 80% · 2023 44% — 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
63% of West Ohio Food Bank's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
West Ohio Food Bank draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $557k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
West Ohio Food Bank holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like West 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West 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 West Ohio Food Bank?
- West Ohio Food Bank (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,259,968 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,769,595). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Ohio Food Bank have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $7,259,968 in grants to West Ohio Food Bank, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Ohio Food Bank?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $4,769,595 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West 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.
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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 48 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