Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$40,612,922

Total expenses

$36,672,590

Contributions and grants received

$39,414,363

Grants paid

$25,428,272

Program service revenue

$891,319

Investment income

$307,240

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$20,407,215

Total liabilities, end of year

$565,528

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$19,841,687

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$34,713,825

Management and general expenses

$551,615

Fundraising expenses

$1,407,150

Program service expenses (Part III)

$34,713,825

Program services were 94.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• STATEWIDE FOOD RECOVERY AND DISTRIBUTION: The Great Plains Food Bank (GPFB) is the only food bank serving the state of North Dakota and Clay County, Minn. Our mission is Ending Hunger Together. During FY25, the Great Plains Food Bank provided food for 12.7 million meals to 160,348 people struggling with hunger; 37% were children and 15% were seniors. The GPFB partners with hundreds of FOOD DONORS (grocers, manufacturers, growers, retailers, and community food drive partners) who donate food for a variety of reasons (overproduction, packaging mistakes, nearing a freshness date, or grown to donate). This food makes its way to neighbors living with hunger either through GPFB's DIRECT SERVICE PROGRAMS or diverse network of PARTNER AGENCIES. The GPFB serves 196 partner agencies (food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, and other charitable feeding programs) operating in 101 communities who are on the front lines providing food to our neighbors in need. Our direct service programs allow the GPFB to fill gaps in service and bring food to people in need through a variety of targeted programs. VOLUNTEERS are the backbone of our operation. Their service enables us to distribute food efficiently. Last year 3,438 VOLUNTEERS shared 11,209 hours of time with the GPFB, repackaging bulk items, packing food packages, handing out food, sorting food drive items, and performing administrative tasks. The GPFB is supported by thousands of FINANCIAL DONORS who keep our organization operational. For every $1 donated, the GPFB can distribute food for 2 meals. We rely on COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS in every corner of the state to help us design and implement community-based services that tackle both the immediate hunger needs of our neighbors, and long-term root causes of hunger. And finally, we collaborate with our NEIGHBORS experiencing hunger by regularly seeking their guidance and feedback to improve services, reduce barriers, and adapt programs to better meet their needs.

  Expenses $24,995,950 · Grants $18,800,130 · Revenue $840,805

• USDA COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMS: The GPFB operates two USDA Commodity Programs for the state of North Dakota. These programs include The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP - Senior Food Pack Program). TEFAP provides commodity products (fresh fruits and vegetables, canned fruit, vegetables and juices, dry and shelf-stable milk, cheese, canned meats, peanut butter or dried beans, cereal, rice, or pasta) to qualified emergency feeding programs such as soup kitchens, emergency shelters, and food pantries across the state. In FY25, the Great Plains Food Bank distributed 269,572 meals of TEFAP product to low-income individuals through our partner network of feeding programs.The Great Plains Food Bank Senior Food Pack Program is a commodity-based program that provides nutritionally balanced, shelf-stable food packages to low-income seniors. Seniors aged 60+ with incomes of less than 150 percent of the federal poverty line are eligible for enrollment in the program. The senior food pack program served 47 communities throughout the state of North Dakota.

  Expenses $7,403,184 · Grants $6,628,142

• CHILD HUNGER PROGRAMS: The GPFB operates a trio of programs aimed at eradicating childhood hunger. These programs include the backpack, youth summer meals and school pantry programs.The Great Plains Food Bank BackPack Program is the cornerstone of the GPFB's suite of programs directly targeting childhood hunger. Each year, more than 33,000 kids qualify for and greatly rely on the free and reduced cost school lunch program. But on the weekends when the school lunch program is not available, many of those children struggle with inadequate food supplies. The backpack program provides a bag full of kid-friendly food to children for the weekend, ensuring children return to school Monday morning healthy and ready to learn. During FY25, the GPFB partnered with 134 schools to provide a total of 137,380 backpacks to 5,596 children. The Great Plains Food Bank School Pantry Program is simply a food pantry located in a school, ensuring families and youth in need of assistance have easy access to food and other necessities. In FY25, the GPFB partnered with 105 schools in 61 communities to provide food for 185,003 meals to students and their families. The Great Plains Food Bank Youth Summer Meals program is designed to feed low-income children over the summer when they don't have access to school meals. The GPFB operates meals sites in low-income neighborhoods to provide well-balanced, nutritious meals to any child under age 18, free of charge. During the 2025 summer, GPFB's youth summer meal program provided 36,926 meals to children at 15 meal sites across North Dakota

  Expenses $840,619

• MOBILE FOOD PANTRY: The GPFB semi-trucks also serve as a food-pantry-on-wheels reaching food insecure individuals living in or near underserved communities. Truckloads of highly nutritious fresh produce along with boxes of shelf-stable food products are brought into communities and are met by volunteers who unload the food directly into client's cars. In FY25, the Great Plains Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry distributed food for 765,274 meals to families across North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota.

• ENDING HUNGER 2.0: In 2016 GPFB took the next bold step in ending hunger with a new initiative called Ending Hunger 2.0 (EH2.0). Focused on addressing the root causes of hunger through new solutions, EH2.0 goes beyond food to look holistically at the issue of hunger. It allows the GPFB to continue our core work of feeding people today through our partner network and direct service programs, while simultaneously working upstream to decrease the need and improve food security. EH2.0 works to bring sustainable, long-term solutions to hunger through advocacy, research, and community-based solutions. In 2017, we launched the Great Plains Food Bank Healthcare Initiative, putting healthy food into clinics. There is a growing trend within the healthcare realm to see food/nutrition as medicine and as treatment for many chronic diseases. In FY25, we worked with 9 healthcare partners at 36 sites and distributed food for 84,263 meals.In 2023, we launched Kitchen Coalition, which provides freshly prepared meals to neighbors. We know that not everyone facing hunger has the home, health, or ability to use the groceries our food bank offers. We work with a network of restaurants and caterers who prepare freshly prepared meals, which go to trusted nonprofits to get those meals to neighbors on a predictable schedule. In FY25, we distributed 63,276 meals across 10 distribution sites and 3 kitchen partners.

• SNAP Outreach: In partnership with the state of North Dakota, the GPFB offers outreach to individuals who may be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. The GPFB employs 1 full-time SNAP Manager and 2 full-time SNAP Outreach Coordinators who screen individuals for benefits and offer application assistance. In FY25, 773 SNAP applications were submitted which is attributed to 369,385 meals.

  Expenses $1,474,072 · Revenue $50,514

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• Emergency Food Pantry

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• Dream Center Bismarck

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• A Place For Hope

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• Dorothy Day Food Pantry

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• Northlands Rescue Mission

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• Second Harvest Heartland

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• The Lord's Cupboard

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• Salvation Army Grand Forks

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• Spirit of Life Catholic Church

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

• HC Community Care Center & Food Pantry

  $0

  To provide food pantries with food to distribute to individuals

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

9 April 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202621009349301227

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