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Who funds food banks? Grant data from tax filings and live federal listings

Name: food bank grant funding data (Grant Graph)
Creator: Grant Graph
License: public domain sources; compilation freely citable with attribution

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 18,891 grants totaling $1.07 billion went to food banks-related work. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of food banks, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
Feeding America	296	$280.6 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	923	$97.3 million
FEEDING TEXAS	42	$67.0 million
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	193	$29.5 million
Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc	8	$22.8 million
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA	264	$17.4 million
FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA	25	$14.6 million
FEEDING LOUISIANA	5	$13.3 million
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC	137	$12.6 million
DAVID AND NICOLE TEPPER CHARITABLE	17	$11.9 million

Across all funders: 18,891 grants, $1.07 billion total, median grant $7,500.

Where the money went

State	Grants	Total
TX	1,820	$186.3 million
CA	2,281	$107.0 million
NC	648	$48.8 million
PA	852	$48.6 million
FL	972	$47.9 million
MI	355	$40.2 million

Open federal opportunities addressing food banks (nonprofit-eligible)

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "food bank"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: food insecurity, emergency food, hunger, food assistance.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
USDA-AMS-TM-CCG-G-26-0001	Cold Chain Grants for Emergency Food Assistance	Agricultural Marketing Service	$2.0 million to $7.5 million	10/01/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 226 listings mentioning "food banks" anywhere (retrieved 2026-11-01); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Filings include corrections: voided checks, returned grants and corpus-distribution adjustments appear as negative amounts and are counted as filed. They are a fraction of a percent of the total.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.