Feeding Pennsylvania
Lemoyne, PA · EIN 45-4793238. Reported 197 grants totalling $115.1M to 64 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Feeding Pennsylvania, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 64 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 86% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $181,600. Half of what it reported fell between $50,515 and $672,153; the smallest was $5,020 and the largest $6,074,041. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
162 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $33.4M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Pennsylvania Food Bank | Harrisburg, PA | $16.7M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | Duquesne, PA | $16.2M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Philabundance | Philadelphia, PA | $11.0M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Share Food Program Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $10.2M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| City Harvest Inc | New York, NY | $7,796,819 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania | Erie, PA | $5,084,103 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc | Bethlehem, PA | $4,769,818 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Capital Area Food Bank | Washington, DC | $4,514,231 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank | Sinking Spg, PA | $3,888,882 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Foodshare | Wallingford, CT | $3,551,464 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc | Hillside, NJ | $3,325,678 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank | Wilkesbarre, PA | $2,819,093 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Commission on Economic Opportunity of Luzerne County | Wilkes Barre, PA | $2,806,680 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Chester County Food Bank | Exton, PA | $2,375,865 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc | Doylestown, PA | $1,941,450 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc | Verona, VA | $1,933,297 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Maryland Food Bank Inc | Baltimore, MD | $1,824,136 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc | Delmont, PA | $1,691,638 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Feed More Inc | Richmond, VA | $1,058,220 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Food Helpers | Canonsburg, PA | $1,002,003 | 8 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County | Sharon, PA | $976,804 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of Delaware Inc | Newark, DE | $946,518 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Virginia Peninsula Foodbank | Hampton, VA | $925,196 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $907,747 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | Norfolk, VA | $620,779 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Island Harvest Ltd | Melville, NY | $602,853 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $544,244 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mountaineer Food Bank Inc | Gassaway, WV | $532,104 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Good Sheperd Food Bank | Auburn, ME | $432,412 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Southeast Regional Cooperative Inc | East Point, GA | $413,198 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Food Bank for New York City | Bronx, NY | $400,157 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | Wallingford, CT | $360,114 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | Charlotte, NC | $347,457 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Food for Families Inc | Altoona, PA | $320,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Hampshire Catholic Charities Inc | Manchester, NH | $314,671 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fredericksburg Regional Foodbank | Fredericksbrg, VA | $303,292 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Indiana County Community Action Program Inc | Indiana, PA | $265,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | Boston, MA | $240,292 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Collaborative for Fresh Produce | Weslaco, TX | $179,457 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| York County Food Bank | York, PA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fayette County Community Action Agency Inc | Uniontown, PA | $130,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Catholic Charities Food Bank of the Southern Tier | Elmira, NY | $127,709 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Food Bank Association of New York State | Albany, NY | $81,247 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $75,778 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Public Health Management Services Corporation | Philadelphia, PA | $44,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of Central New York | Syracuse, NY | $40,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Food Bank of the Albemarle | Elizabeth Cty, NC | $39,199 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association | Providence, RI | $35,801 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc | Chicopee, MA | $34,770 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $34,519 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc | Neptune, NJ | $30,571 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regional Food Bank of N E Ny Inc | Latham, NY | $26,042 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Association of Regional Food Banks | Pittsburgh, PA | $21,287 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Food Bank of South Jersey Inc | Pennsauken, NJ | $20,300 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Long Island Cares Inc | Hauppauge, NY | $19,087 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Feeding Westchester Inc | Elmsford, NY | $19,080 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Manna Food Bank | Mills River, NC | $17,337 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Facing Hunger Foodbank Inc | Huntington, WV | $16,227 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sunset Farm LLC | Grove City, PA | $16,016 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | Austin, TX | $12,398 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vermont Foodbank | Barre, VT | $12,225 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ohio Association of Foodbanks | Columbus, OH | $7,112 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pa Eats | Lancaster, PA | $5,560 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Second Harvest Heartland | Brooklyn Park, MN | $5,544 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
44 of 64 (69%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 47 of 64 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 33 | $22.5M | $466,436 |
| 2021 | 34 | $13.9M | $143,874 |
| 2022 | 39 | $18.0M | $165,724 |
| 2023 | 47 | $25.0M | $169,035 |
| 2024 | 44 | $35.7M | $164,503 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
72% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $181,600 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Feeding Pennsylvania's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 42 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 20 Erford Road 115, Lemoyne, PA, 17043.
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