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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.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$787kPublic Safety & Disaster$129kPublic Benefit$50kHuman Services$30k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $8,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,807,995 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,799,995 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SeaMar$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SeaMar: $13k → 9%Refugee and Immigrant Svcs NW: $30k → 11%POINT ROBERTS FOOD BANK: $2k → 12%SeaMar: $8k → 9%Northwest Agriculture Bus Ctr: $25k → 11%POINT ROBERTS FOOD BANK: $1k → 12%AGAPE SERVICE PROJECT OF THE CORPORATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER: $11k → 11%POINT ROBERTS FOOD BANK: $1k → 12%FARIAS FARM: $9k → 11%CHRISTIAN HOPE ASSOCIATION: $29k → 12%CHRISTIAN HOPE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%CHRISTIAN HOPE ASSOCIATION: $19k → 12%CHRISTIAN HOPE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY: $75k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $27k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $18k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $12k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $9k → 12%FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK: $36k → 12%FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK: $23k → 12%NOOKSACK VALLEY FOOD BANK: $41k → 12%FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK: $21k → 12%MARIPOSA FARM: $25k → 12%NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE: $11k → 12%NOOKSACK VALLEY FOOD BANK: $23k → 12%NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE: $10k → 12%NOOKSACK VALLEY FOOD BANK: $20k → 12%NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE: $10k → 12%TERRE VERDE FARM: $10k → 12%FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK: $6k → 12%NOOKSACK VALLEY FOOD BANK: $6k → 12%NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE: $5k → 12%FERNDALE FOOD BANK: $36k → 12%BLAINE FOOD BANK: $75k → 12%FERNDALE FOOD BANK: $22k → 12%BLAINE FOOD BANK: $42k → 12%FERNDALE FOOD BANK: $17k → 12%BLAINE FOOD BANK: $32k → 12%FERNDALE FOOD BANK: $9k → 12%BLAINE FOOD BANK: $20k → 12%FERNDALE FOOD BANK: $2k → 12%LUMMI NATION SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $75k → 12%LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%LUMMI NATION SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $19k → 12%LUMMI NATION SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $16k → 12%NORTH SOUND ACH: $10k → 12%LUMMI NATION SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$795k · 10 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$795k
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+42%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BF
    BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +54%
  • NV
    Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +32%
  • FF
    FERNDALE FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +466%

Funded once

  • CT
    COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -5%
  • NA
    Northwest Agriculture Bus Ctr
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Snohomish Community Food Bank

To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need

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4
Lake Chelan Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
West Seattle Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

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7
Hoquiam Food and Clothing Bank

To provide food and clothing assistance to person in need.

Health
8
Food Bank of Alaska

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Bremerton Foodline

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.

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10
Flathead Food Bank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Sequim Food Bank

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…

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12
Renewal Food Bank

Renewal Food Bank provides food to needy and economically vulnerable individuals who live in Bellevue, Washington and surrounding communities

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Council On Aging; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $169,334 · OtherBLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATIONFERNDALE FOOD BANK: $86,298 · OtherFERNDALE FOOD BANKFOOTHILLS FOOD BANK: $85,977 · OtherFOOTHILLS FOOD BANKCOMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTChristian Hope Association: $72,788 · OtherChristian Hope AssociationTHE SALVATION ARMY: $65,394 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYNOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE: $36,945 · OtherREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST: $30,000 · OtherNorthwest Agriculture Bus Ctr: $25,000 · OtherMARIPOSA FARM: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $29,351 · OtherLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $162,375 · Public BenefitLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDA…Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association: $89,719 · Food & NutritionNooksack Va…NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER: $11,340 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST A…SEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $21,000 · HealthNORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH: $10,000 · Health
Other$701,087Public Benefit$162,375Food & Nutrition$101,059Health$31,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLAINE FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $169,334 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $162,375 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetNooksack Valley Food Bank Association: $89,719 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetFERNDALE FOOD BANK: $86,298 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER: $11,340 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Whatcom Community Fou…North Sound Accountab…Food LifelineNorthwest Harvest EmmPuget Sound Energy Fo…PeaceHealthThe Albertsons Compan…Seattle FoundationMount Baker FoundationChuckanut Health Foun…Delta Dental of Washi…Inatai Foundation
Whatcom Community FoundationWA40.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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