· Private foundation
American Pennies for Hunger
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHRIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
| AIDS SUPPORT OF PT | $500 |
| ISLAND HARVEST | $500 |
| CARE WORKS | $500 |
| OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| CAPE KIDS MEALS | $500 |
| GBFB | $500 |
| 2ND CHURCH OF PLYMOUTH | $500 |
| SKIP | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +144% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Pennies for Hunger funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Pennies for Hunger. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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