· Public charity
Buckets for Hunger Inc
To wipe away the tears of hunger and to replace them with a glimmer of hope in the eyes of the needy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRUIT OF THE VINE FOOD PANTRY | $9,300 |
| JEFFERSON FOOD PANTRY | $9,000 |
| THE GATHERING SOURCE | $7,000 |
| WATERTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +8% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWatertown Food Pantry6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +3%
- OAOregon Area Food Pantry2× · 2020–2021 · $34k · revenue +23%
- TGThe Gathering Source Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -76%
- NHNEW HEIGHTS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $7k
- BBBEYOND BLESSED PANTRYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +30%
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.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.
The organizations mission is to distribute food toiletries detergent and other basic necessities to individuals and families.
Our Mission is to reach out to those in need in our area by providing healthy and nuritious food and other necessities to families and individuals who cannot afford them. In addition, the Pantry refers families to other agencies which can…
Provide emergency food for those in need.
Feed the needy people of benton county
Religious Orginazation
Food shelf providing food assistance to people in need in carver county.
Proide food for low income people
Provide food and basic necessities to individuals and families in need in the Camden, Maine area
Provide emergency food, housing and utilities for people in need in the community
food pantry
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 Watertown Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds Oregon Area Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds JEFF CO FOOD PANTRY LANA JILEK ↗
- Who funds The Gathering Source Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS 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: Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Buckets for Hunger Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buckets for Hunger Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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