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

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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 864 grants totaling $42.7 million went to food banks-related work in Florida. 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 in Florida, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
Feeding America	9	$10.4 million
United Way of Palm Beach County Inc	2	$3.9 million
Means Database Inc	2	$2.8 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	21	$1.6 million
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA	13	$1.3 million
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	10	$1.2 million
THE FLORMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC	2	$1.1 million
The Chicago Community Trust	2	$1.1 million
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO	3	$1.0 million
THE GERSTNER FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	$1.0 million

Across all funders: 864 grants, $42.7 million total, median grant $7,500.

Largest recipients in Florida

Recipient	Grants	Total
Palm Beach County Food Bank	78	$7.1 million
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA	31	$4.0 million
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC	42	$3.9 million
All Faiths Food Bank	82	$3.9 million
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA	20	$3.4 million
TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK	40	$3.2 million
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC	39	$2.4 million
TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INCORPORATED	11	$1.1 million
PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK INC	28	$1.1 million
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC	40	$1.1 million

Open federal opportunities addressing food banks (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Florida can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

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 262 listings mentioning "food banks" anywhere (retrieved 2026-09-18); 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.