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

Name: food bank grant funding data (Grant Graph)
Creator: Grant Graph
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 1,820 grants totaling $186.3 million went to food banks-related work in Texas. 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 Texas, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
FEEDING TEXAS	40	$66.4 million
Feeding America	35	$37.5 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	70	$13.0 million
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC	13	$4.5 million
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR	1	$4.1 million
The Cleverley Stone Foundation	5	$3.3 million
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA	31	$2.4 million
ALAMO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC	2	$2.3 million
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND	21	$2.0 million
Tres Grace Family Foundation	9	$1.9 million

Across all funders: 1,820 grants, $186.3 million total, median grant $10,000.

Largest recipients in Texas

Recipient	Grants	Total
HOUSTON FOOD BANK	276	$37.3 million
North Texas Food Bank	254	$33.6 million
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK	101	$20.6 million
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK	141	$13.1 million
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK	136	$9.1 million
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK INC	44	$8.6 million
EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK	46	$7.0 million
FOOD BANK OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY	13	$5.4 million
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK INC	32	$4.9 million
SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK	27	$4.4 million

Open federal opportunities addressing food banks (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Texas 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.