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Who funds food pantries in Texas? 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: 380 grants totaling $8.2 million went to food pantries-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 pantries in Texas, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	19	$771,022
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS	1	$690,000
JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC	1	$650,000
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc	1	$462,000
Hamill Foundation	2	$450,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC	8	$363,053
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA	2	$252,772
The Moody Foundation	1	$250,000
THEODORE AND BEULAH BEASLEY FOUNDATION	1	$250,000
United Regional Health Care System	1	$225,000

Across all funders: 380 grants, $8.2 million total, median grant $7,406.

Largest recipients in Texas

Recipient	Grants	Total
MINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC	16	$1.0 million
BASTROP COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY INC	6	$693,513
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS	1	$690,000
San Antonio Food Bank	2	$543,900
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK	2	$300,000
Christian Community Service Center	1	$300,000
MINNIE'S FOOD PANTRY INC	3	$281,736
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry	1	$250,000
WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK	1	$225,000
DOWNTOWN FOOD PANTRY	4	$155,000

Open federal opportunities addressing food pantries (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 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.