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Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
ActivePublic CharityFood, Agriculture & Nutrition
BATON ROUGE, LAWebsite
About Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
Our mission is to feed the hungry in Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.
Focus Areas
food securityhunger relieffood rescuenutrition educationSNAP assistanceemergency food distribution
Who They Fund
food-insecure individuals and families in Baton Rougeresidents of surrounding parishes (regional underserved communities)faith-based and community partner organizations
Funding Style
direct servicepartnership-driven (faith-based & community partners)
About Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
The defining pattern at Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank is a two-grant mission-support flow to its own operating entity: $4,000,000 in 2023 and $3,112,494 in 2025, both directed to Gbrfb Mission Support in Baton Rouge. That combination shows a funder that channels large, organization-centered grants into its core hunger-relief work rather than spreading money across many external recipients. The food bank’s mission is to feed hungry people in Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes through food and educational outreach with faith-based and other community partners. Its active programs show how that mission is delivered in practice: fresh produce for agencies that cannot always store refrigerated items, pantry access for students and families, weekend and holiday meals for children, and monthly shelf-stable food for at-risk seniors. The organization also connects food support to healthcare through patient food boxes and distributes food through a network of member agencies and partner sites. Across those programs, the emphasis is on direct service, local coordination, and keeping food flowing to people facing hunger in the 11-parish service area.
What Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank Funds
Food access is central to the foundation’s grantmaking and program design. The Farm Fresh Healthy Food Initiative focuses on produce distribution and nutrition, supplying fresh food to agencies in the Baton Rouge area and surrounding parishes. For children and families, the School Pantry Program operates pantries for food-insecure students and their households, while the BackPack Program provides packaged weekend and holiday meals through partner sites. The Senior Grocery Program extends that safety-net model to at-risk older adults with monthly shelf-stable food, and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program supplies USDA foods to low-income people age 60 and older. A healthcare-facing effort, Food is Medicine, links hospitals, clinics, and medical facilities with discharge food boxes for patients facing food insecurity.
How Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank Gives
The typical grant size is $4,000,000 at the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile, which points to a very concentrated grant pattern rather than a broad spread of award sizes. The recent grant record also shows repetition: the same mission-support recipient appears in both 2023 and 2025, suggesting recurring support for core operations. Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank is a public charity, not a grantmaker to individuals, and it does not make program-related investments. The active programs indicate some support is accepted through unsolicited channels, while others are managed through partner coordination.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.1M
Total Assets
$21.4M
Total Revenue
$34.7M
Total Expenses
$33.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $4M and $4M, with a median of $4M.
25th Percentile
$4M
Median
$4M
75th Percentile
$4M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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