First Mortgage Trust this week donated $2000 to the foodbank.
"We know that not everyone in our society enjoys the financial and social benefits that we do," its financial controller, Roger Ford, said.
"For a number of years, we have made a donation of $2000 to the Tauranga Community Foodbank. The foodbank has a number of generous donors of food and volunteers, however, we recognise that cash donations are also vital to enable the foodbank to purchase basic staple items for those in need."
Meanwhile, Holland Beckett Law donated $1556.
Practice manager Sharline Fitzgerald says the contribution has become something of a tradition.
"One year somebody got the TECT refund cheque – the power refund cheque – and said 'oh, we didn't budget on getting this money, why don't we give it to the foodbank?' And every year since, our TECT cheque comes in and we go 'should we give it to the foodbank again?' So we've been doing that every year."
Fitzgerald says families in need all have different reasons for being in difficult times and food is a very basic need that everybody could use a hand with.
"So when the foodbank gets to that stage where they're seeking organisations to help them, we think that's one of the real necessities of life and also the foodbank's so well organised and monitored and you know that your money is going to a really great cause."
She says the foodbank has so much volunteer help that you also know everything you donate is really going into food for people, not administration and other overheads.
Holland Beckett Law has donated a total of $15,030 to the foodbank since 2009 and is encouraging other businesses and individuals to do something similar with their TECT refund cheques.
So far, $12,243 cash and 3687 food items (valued at $2 each) have been donated to the foodbank, making the total amount raised $19,617.