· Public charity
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank
Reduce hunger by: creating access to high quality, desirable food and other essentials building a responsive regional hunger relief network and disrupting racism, because of its historical and structural connection to hunger and poverty.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $8,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,807,995 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,799,995 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SeaMar | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BFBLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +54%
- NVNooksack Valley Food Bank Association8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +32%
- FFFERNDALE FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +466%
Funded once
- CTCOMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $75k
- RIREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWESTone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -5%
- NANorthwest Agriculture Bus Ctrone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need
The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
To provide food and clothing assistance to person in need.
FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.
Our mission is to provide food and referral services at no cost in a caring and respectful manner to those in need. We strive to eliminate hunger and restore the quality of life in our clients.
The Flathead Food Bank strives to elimnate hunger in the Flathead Valley through collaborative partnerships creating effective solutions to connect and strengthen individuals, families and the community through access to healthy nutritious…
Unite our community in nourishing and nurturing individuals by removing barriers to healthy food, vital resources, and connections to essential services.
To provide food and assistance to individuals and organizations within our community so that "no one goes hungry in Sequim".Our 5 core values that guide our work:1. Compassion and Respect: Turn no one away from services and always…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Council On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Sea Mar Community Health Centers. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association ↗
- Who funds FERNDALE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Christian Hope Association ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds SEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Food Lifeline · Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · PeaceHealth · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · Delta Dental of Washington · Inatai Foundation
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.