GRANT GRAPH · the independent grant data index

Who funds food pantries? Grant data from tax filings and live federal listings

Name: food pantry grant funding data (Grant Graph)
Creator: Grant Graph
License: public domain sources; compilation freely citable with attribution

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 8,859 grants totaling $98.6 million went to food pantries-related work. 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 pantries, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	443	$5.6 million
FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC	77	$3.7 million
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC	15	$2.3 million
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	83	$1.7 million
JEWISH HERITAGE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE INC	2	$1.4 million
NETWORK FOR GOOD	15	$1.2 million
EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS COMMUNITY	2	$1.1 million
THE GERSTNER FAMILY FOUNDATION	2	$1.0 million
TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE	65	$895,000
STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC	3	$827,500

Across all funders: 8,859 grants, $98.6 million total, median grant $4,000.

Where the money went

State	Grants	Total
NY	822	$13.2 million
TX	429	$8.6 million
MA	800	$7.3 million
WI	769	$7.1 million
IL	733	$5.3 million
FL	243	$4.8 million

Open federal opportunities addressing food pantries (nonprofit-eligible)

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 pantry"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: food insecurity, emergency food.

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 181 listings mentioning "food pantries" anywhere (retrieved 2026-11-01); 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.