GOOD SHEPERD FOOD BANK

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

K31Z

Classification

1000

Street

3121 HOTEL RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Food Distribution: Good Shepherd Food Bank (GSFB) provides for those at risk of hunger by soliciting food donations and purchasing food at wholesale prices, then distributing this food to more than 600 partners across Maine, including food pantries, meal sites, shelters, schools, afterschool programs, child care centers, senior centers, health care sites, and other community organizations. In its 2025 fiscal year, GSFB distributed over 50 million pounds of food to partners and the families and individuals they serve, providing 42 million meals for Mainers in need.

  Expenses $97,506,681 · Grants $3,854,530 · Revenue $2,853,973

• Mainers Feeding Mainers: this program is the Food Bank's collaboration with local farms to purchase and distribute nutritious, Maine-grown food. Each year, the Food Bank makes purchases of fresh Maine vegetables, fruits, grains, and dairy products on behalf of partner agencies. The Food Bank also receives donations from many local farmers. In fiscal year 2025, the Food Bank distributed nearly 2.6 million pounds of local foods and invested $1.7 million into Maine's agricultural sector.

  Expenses $1,930,055 · Grants $350,000 · Revenue $681,863

• Good Shepherd Food Bank supports the School Pantry Program to provide easy, consistent access to nutritious food for students and their families. Our school partners not only serve as food distribution sites in vulnerable areas but also function as vital community resource hubs where families feel welcomed, supported, and safe. The Food Bank also operates Kids Cafe, an afterschool meal and snack program. In collaboration with more than 230 program partners, GSFB provided almost 2 million meals statewide through School Partners in fiscal year 2025.

  Expenses $1,167,248 · Grants $14,929 · Revenue $249,614

• Good Shepherd Food Bank engages in many other activities that are important to its mission. The most significant of these other program service accomplishments are as follows: Cooking Matters Maine: An outreach program that mobilizes culinary and nutrition professionals to teach cooking and nutrition classes to low-income adults, teens, and children. Classes are taught at local community centers, schools, and food pantries, and the classes provide people at risk of hunger with hands-on cooking and nutrition experience. In fiscal year 2025, the program offered 229 educational opportunities including classes and tours, reaching approximately 2,300 participants. Farm Fresh Rewards: The Food Bank partners with 14 Maine grocers to offer shoppers using SNAP/EBT discounts on fresh, frozen, and dried local fruits and vegetables grown in Maine that contain no added salt, sugars, or fats, as well as local food-producing seeds or seedlings.Community Health & Hunger: The Food Bank forms partnerships with health care organizations to reduce the negative impact of food insecurity on health outcomes. Through this program, the Food Bank provides training and technical assistance for health care providers implementing food insecurity screening and referral protocols and supports projects that distribute food directly in clinical settings for patients in need. In fiscal year 2025, the Food Bank worked with 150 partners to provide over 1.3 million meals to people who screened positive for food insecurity.In accordance with IRS Instructions, the total amount of program service expenses, grants, and revenues reported on this Form 990, Part III, Line 4d, and on this Schedule O footnote, are therefore inclusive of all the above-detailed program service accomplishments for the period covered by this Form 990 tax return.

  Expenses $2,084,558 · Grants $15,257 · Revenue $859,475

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $104,490,942

  Expenses

  $107,576,873

  Contributions

  $99,030,439

  Grants paid

  $4,234,716

• 2023

  Revenue

  $99,656,038

  Expenses

  $102,360,072

  Contributions

  $94,866,139

  Grants paid

  $2,344,697

• 2022

  Revenue

  $78,671,561

  Expenses

  $85,869,468

  Contributions

  $75,418,640

  Grants paid

  $3,006,824

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $81,382,745

  Expenses

  $76,370,570

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,999,694

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $114,090,415

  Expenses

  $82,773,043

  Assets (EOY)

  $55,473,502

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $69,626,051

  Expenses

  $60,940,263

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,546,371

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $58,382,901

  Expenses

  $57,450,634

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,394,142

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $57,116,103

  Expenses

  $52,098,847

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,426,237

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $48,844,901

  Expenses

  $47,537,568

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,434,772

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $35,088,150

  Expenses

  $35,570,753

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,886,683

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $28,187,045

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,105,356

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $27,150,547

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,613,621

• 2010 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $26,509,785

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,188,301

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition

  $360,000

  2023 · Food distribution programs

• Maine Coast Fishermen's Association

  $350,000

  2024 · Food distribution programs

• Cumberland County Food Security Council

  $260,000

  2022 · Food distribution programs

• Winslow Community Cupboard

  $210,148

  2022 · Food distribution programs

• Harrison Food Bank

  $207,597

  2023 · Food distribution programs

• Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry

  $185,329

  2022 · Food distribution programs

• Catholic Charities Maine (Caribou Charter)

  $176,339

  2024 · Food distribution programs

• Catholic Charities Maine

  $157,791

  2023 · Food distribution programs

• Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition

  $150,000

  2024 · Food distribution programs

• Presente Maine

  $135,000

  2023 · Food distribution programs

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,113,200

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FEEDING AMERICA

  $1,077,817

  2022 · Fight Hunger

• FEEDING AMERICA

  $785,185

  2023 · Fight Hunger

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $732,787

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FEEDING AMERICA

  $651,850

  2024 · Fight Hunger

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $626,254

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MAINE TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE

  $500,000

  2023 · Investing in Maine's first at scale green vegetable processing supply chain.

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $292,750

  2024 · Food Programs

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $278,260

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $243,783

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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