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A SIMPLE GESTURE - GREENSBORO INC
A simple gesture-greensboro is a not-for-profit, grass roots food collection program dependent upon volunteer donors and volunteer drivers.
$3.7M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
nourish growgrow learnlearn thrive
2022
baptist
2023
ensuringchildren careprivatecriminal justicejustice systemfosterdeserve
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $3,724,661.
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Median grant
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States reached
$477k
Total assets
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn
To feed the hungry in ne tn by securing and distributing food and engaging the community.
Food & Nutrition
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Greeneville Greene County Community Ministries Food Bank
To enlist and provide ecumenical Christian support for program and longer term assistance with food, shelter, utlities, and medications for residents of Greeneville and Greene County.
Human Services
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Urban Bicycle Food Ministry
Human Services
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For His Brothers Food Pantry
Food Pantry
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Harvest House
Food Security
Human Services
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The Open Door of Perquimans
The mission of the open door of perquimans county, inc. is to eliminate hunger and improve the health and well-being of our community through access to healthy and nutritious foods, education, and advocacy.
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Food Bank of Greenwood County
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
Food & Nutrition
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Greater New Hope Baptist Church
serve the community with clothing and food
Religion
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Beach Food Pantry Inc
The beach food pantry's mission is "our mission: fueling hope. ending hunger". the beach food pantry partners with our donors and community to provide access to nutritional food, ensuring that no one worries about where their next meal…
Food & Nutrition
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Help Office of Owensboro Inc
Ministry serving persons with basic necessities of life, including food, clothing, and emergency assistance with rent and utilities to keep individuals and families from becoming homeless.
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Gleaners Community Food Bank
Gleaners community food bank of southeastern michigan (gleaners or gcfb) is one of approximately 200 food banks across the country whose mission it is to bring innovative solutions, supported by engaged partners and thousands of…
Food & Nutrition
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3G Food Pantry
Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greensboro Urban Ministry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greensboro Jewish Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
14%
442/3,061
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Second Harvest Food BankNC32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Second Harvest Food Bank · Community Foundation of Greater · United Way of Greater High Point Inc · High Point Community Foundation · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Greensboro Jewish Federation · Reynolds American Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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