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

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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 852 grants totaling $48.6 million went to food banks-related work in Pennsylvania. 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 Pennsylvania, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
FEEDING PENNSYLVANIA	10	$14.6 million
Feeding America	14	$6.8 million
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL	21	$5.4 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	40	$3.3 million
PENNSYLVANIA AUTOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION	3	$2.3 million
MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA	2	$1.7 million
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION	9	$905,668
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	8	$622,345
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA	13	$490,543
THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN	8	$482,797

Across all funders: 852 grants, $48.6 million total, median grant $7,200.

Largest recipients in Pennsylvania

Recipient	Grants	Total
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank	127	$14.0 million
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK	83	$10.9 million
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA	13	$3.7 million
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK	87	$3.7 million
Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley	2	$1.9 million
WEINBERG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BANK	1	$1.7 million
WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK	18	$1.5 million
YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK	36	$871,889
Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and NE Pennsylvania	2	$818,976
Second Harvest Food Bank Of NW PA	8	$661,204

Open federal opportunities addressing food banks (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Pennsylvania 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 226 listings mentioning "food banks" anywhere (retrieved 2026-11-02); 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.