· Private foundation
American Pennies for Hunger
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k23 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SSCAC | $12,300 |
| LCOC | $3,900 |
| FIRST CONGREGATION CHURCH OF FALMOUTH | $1,500 |
| LI CARES | $1,500 |
| FATHER BILL AND MAIN SPRING | $600 |
| AIDS SUPPORT OF PT | $500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
| 2ND CHURCH OF PLYMOUTH | $500 |
| ISLAND HARVEST | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
| OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| CARE WORKS | $500 |
| PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $900) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +144% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
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 FY2019, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +89%
Feeding America2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +84%- CKCAPE KID MEALS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH FALMOUTHone grant, 2018 · $1k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL MASHPEEone grant, 2017 · $500
- SFSANDWICH FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2017 · $400 · revenue +20%
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.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
To supply the necessary food to needy residents
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
To collect and distribute food and provide economic assistance to needy families in the suffolk county and surrounding area. encourage awareness of the plight of the needy.
Suppling local food banks
Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.
Provide hunger relief to the food insecure
The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…
The primary mission of the Machias Area Food Pantry is to provide good healthy food to individuals and families who are food insecure throughout Washington County, Maine.
We seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenanc
To distribute food to alleviate hunger, provide emergency food services during a natural disaster, and conduct educational awareness programs relating to hunger issues in monterey county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 37 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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds SANDWICH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 American Pennies for Hunger 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Old Colony Elder Services Inc — 64% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 26% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 19% of income from government
- Marshfield Food Pantry Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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