Faith Food Bank is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
This page gathers what a sponsor, partner or grant reviewer usually asks for: our legal name, EIN and tax status, how to verify them, what a gift pays for, and who to call. Link to it, print it, or attach it to an application.
The facts a grant form asks for
- Legal name
- Faith Food Bank
- Operating as
- Faith Mobile Food Bank Bristol
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization, recognized by the IRSDonations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
- EIN (tax ID)
- 86-2249119
- Mission
- Free groceries for anyone who shows up. No ID, no questions, no paperwork, and people choose the food their family will eat.
- Founder and director
- Roxana BoroujerdiTwenty years feeding neighbors, first in Everett, Washington, and since 2025 in Bristol.
- Based in
- Bristol, Virginia
- Area served
- Bristol, VA and Bristol, TN, and the surrounding area
- Programs
- Saturday food giveaways from the van, and about 20 Blessing Boxes around Bristol that are open 24 hours a dayGiveaways: the last two Saturdays of every month, 11 AM to 1 PM, Corner of 10th St. & Windsor Ave., Bristol, VA.
- Paid staff
- None. All-volunteer, run by a core crew of three.
- Facilities
- None. One van, no building, no rent.
- Affiliation
- Independent. Not part of any church or religious organization."Faith" is the founder's word for it: faith that neighbors will support us, that donations will come, and that we can feed everyone who needs it.
- Phone
- (425) 971-0402 (call or text)
- Mailing address
- Faith Food Bank
23207 Clayman Valley Rd
Bristol, VA 24202For checks and grant paperwork. Make checks out to Faith Food Bank.
Details current as of September 2026. If a form needs something that is not here, text or call and ask; texts get an answer within about three hours, calls and emails within a day.
Check our status with the IRS in about a minute
You do not have to take our word for it. Our tax-exempt status is public record.
Open the IRS search
Go to the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search at apps.irs.gov/app/eos.
Search by EIN
Enter 86-2249119 in the EIN field, or search the name Faith Food Bank in Virginia.
Need it on paper?
We will email our IRS determination letter and a completed W-9 on request. Call or text (425) 971-0402 or email funtimesicecream@yahoo.com.
Documents we provide
- IRS determination letterThe IRS letter confirming our 501(c)(3) status, on paper or as a PDF.On request
- Form W-9Signed, with our EIN, for your accounts-payable file.On request
- Written acknowledgmentEvery gift gets a written acknowledgment with our EIN and the gift details for your tax records, signed by Roxana Boroujerdi.Every gift
- Program summaryThis page is it: the Saturday giveaways, the Blessing Box route and our numbers. Print it or link to it from an application.This page
No building. No paid staff. Money buys food.
- $25restocks one Blessing Box
- $50one week of gas for the van and the box route
- $100groceries for about 25 households on a Saturday
We buy from a wholesaler in Elizabethton, pick up from PepsiCo in Johnson City, and accept donated food. Fuel runs roughly $30 to $50 a week. On a busy Saturday the van serves about 320 people, and between giveaways the same crew keeps about 20 Blessing Boxes stocked.
Anyone who shows up gets groceries.The rule, then and now
What a business or foundation can do with us
We are small, so a partnership is a phone call, not a proposal deck. Here is what helps most.
Cover one giveaway
A giveaway serves up to about 320 people in a morning. Cover the groceries for one Saturday, or one Saturday every month, and we will credit your business, with a sign at the van for larger gifts.
Keep a Blessing Box full
Pick one of about 20 boxes and keep it stocked. $25 fills a box; a standing monthly gift keeps it full year-round. Have a storefront or a lot with foot traffic? Host a box.
Food, water, lumber, fuel
Shelf-stable food by the case, bottled water, lumber and hardware for building boxes, and fuel cards all go straight to work. See the food we need most.
An employee volunteer morning
Bring a team to a giveaway Saturday to help neighbors pick out groceries, or spend a weekday restocking boxes. No experience needed. How volunteering works.
Double an employee's gift
If your company matches employee donations, the form usually asks for our legal name and EIN: Faith Food Bank, 86-2249119.
Community and food-security grants
We can supply the documents above and our numbers. Call Roxana and she will walk you through anything else your application needs.
Boilerplate you can paste
Faith Mobile Food Bank Bristol gives free groceries to anyone who shows up, no ID and no questions asked, with each household choosing its own food, from a van at 10th Street and Windsor Avenue in Bristol, Virginia, on the last two Saturdays of every month, and keeps about 20 Blessing Boxes around town stocked with free food 24 hours a day. It is run by three volunteers with no building and no paid staff. Its legal name is Faith Food Bank, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 86-2249119.
Please refer to us as Faith Mobile Food Bank Bristol, or Faith Food Bank for the legal name on receipts and forms.
Files you can use
- Logo, fullBasket of groceries with the name, SVG, any size.Download
- Logo markThe basket alone, SVG, for small spaces.Download
- Social card1200 by 630 image for links and posts.Download
- The vanPhoto of the van and its painted side, JPG.Download
- A Blessing BoxPhoto of a stocked box, JPG.Download
Use them to tell people about a sponsorship, a food drive, or a volunteer day. Please do not alter the logo or use it to suggest we endorse a product.
One call sets it up
Roxana Boroujerdi, founder and director, is the person to talk to. She is usually in the van or at a box, so a text reaches her fastest, usually within about three hours; calls and emails get a reply within a day.
