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

Name: food pantry grant funding data (Grant Graph)
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 699 grants totaling $6.5 million went to food pantries-related work in Massachusetts. 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 in Massachusetts, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	73	$1.2 million
NETWORK FOR GOOD	3	$357,870
WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC	37	$334,217
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC	11	$287,098
METROWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC	9	$207,500
MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE	18	$180,000
GEORGE P BISHOP FOUNDATION INC	3	$175,000
CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC)	4	$160,000
THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC	8	$130,380
FJC	2	$110,000

Across all funders: 699 grants, $6.5 million total, median grant $5,000.

Largest recipients in Massachusetts

Recipient	Grants	Total
THE OPEN DOORCAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC	6	$329,728
LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC	12	$257,795
NEWTON FOOD PANTRY	23	$241,991
THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC	13	$237,868
FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED	13	$213,032
CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY	12	$204,694
BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY	20	$178,335
NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC	9	$174,524
FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY	13	$138,936
WAKEFIELD FOOD PANTRY	9	$134,342

Open federal opportunities addressing food pantries (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Massachusetts 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 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 221 listings mentioning "food pantries" anywhere (retrieved 2026-09-17); 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.