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

Name: food bank grant funding data (Grant Graph)
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 603 grants totaling $29.7 million went to food banks-related work in New York. 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 New York, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
Feeding America	8	$7.6 million
NOVO FOUNDATION	3	$2.5 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	15	$2.5 million
FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION OF	12	$1.7 million
HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC	6	$1.2 million
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC	2	$1.1 million
DUNE ROAD FOUNDATION INC	1	$700,000
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	4	$658,148
AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC	5	$625,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	1	$500,000

Across all funders: 603 grants, $29.7 million total, median grant $6,000.

Largest recipients in New York

Recipient	Grants	Total
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY	164	$9.5 million
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK	41	$3.8 million
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK	19	$2.8 million
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc	6	$2.6 million
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY FOOD FOR SURVIVAL	10	$2.4 million
FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER	37	$1.8 million
FOOD BANK FOR NYC	40	$704,353
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NENY	11	$566,207
ISLAND HARVEST FOOD BANK	12	$523,032
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR SURVIVAL	1	$500,000

Open federal opportunities addressing food banks (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in New York 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.