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Who funds food banks in Washington? 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: 1,039 grants totaling $29.9 million went to food banks-related work in Washington. 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 Washington, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	110	$5.9 million
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	$3.6 million
CHELAN-DOUGLAS COMMUNITY ACTION COU	1	$2.3 million
THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION	20	$1.6 million
SEATTLE FOUNDATION	72	$1.2 million
GATES FOUNDATION	1	$1.0 million
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	20	$789,630
SOUTH KING COUNTY FOOD COALITION	8	$711,971
THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION	3	$700,000
NETWORK FOR GOOD	6	$630,826

Across all funders: 1,039 grants, $29.9 million total, median grant $5,726.

Largest recipients in Washington

Recipient	Grants	Total
ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK	11	$3.7 million
RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK	38	$3.5 million
BALLARD FOOD BANK	58	$3.0 million
WENATCHEE FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER	1	$2.3 million
WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK	17	$1.2 million
CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK	34	$1.0 million
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK	37	$987,376
WEST SEATTLE FOOD BANK	32	$894,418
PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER & FOOD BANK	6	$753,993
Vashon Maury Community Food Bank	21	$725,064

Open federal opportunities addressing food banks (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Washington 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.