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

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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 411 grants totaling $2.2 million went to food pantries-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 pantries in Pennsylvania, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS	1	$250,000
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC	2	$136,865
POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	$100,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH	2	$79,820
AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC	1	$75,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	13	$74,887
BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC	1	$70,000
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION	2	$61,748
BENEDICT SILVERMAN FOUNDATION	1	$57,000
ARCONIC FOUNDATION	2	$55,000

Across all funders: 411 grants, $2.2 million total, median grant $500.

Largest recipients in Pennsylvania

Recipient	Grants	Total
WILKINSBURG COMMUNITY MINISTRY	1	$250,000
NEW JOURNEY COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC	2	$136,865
DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC	13	$126,614
YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA	1	$100,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY	3	$100,000
GEISINGER FOOD PANTRY	1	$75,000
HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA	1	$70,000
IT TAKES A VILLAGE	1	$57,000
THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION	2	$55,000
SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH	1	$50,000

Open federal opportunities addressing food pantries (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 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 2026-11-02); 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.