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CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food.
$5.4M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
shareprisonchild careunderservednurturingenvironmentinsecurity
2020
healthcareprisonunderservednurturingchild carecorporationput christian
2021
corporationyouthchurch pantrysource regenerationregeneration springspring placeplace worship
2022
shareinsecurityadvocacygreater philadelphiaoxford districtcommunity-basedchurch pantry
2023
bridgegrovemanorapartments
2024
methodistshelter
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $5,379,263.
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Median grant
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States reached
$21M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Meals On Wheels of Chester County
To provide nutritious meals and personal interaction to homebound adults living in chester county to help them live independently in their own homes.
Human Services
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Chesterfield County Council On Aging
Provide various services for elderly
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Center for Community Action
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of these…
Housing & Shelter
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Flemington Area Food Pantry Inc
Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of our Hunterdon County community. We offer choices of nutritious foods and essentials, foster resource connections, provide tailored programming, and respect the dignity of our neighbors…
Human Services
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Corner Cupboard Food Bank Inc
To administer food grants programs, to solicit and distribute food through a county-wide network of food pantries in greene county, pa and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.
Human Services
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Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging
Provide services to meet the needs of senior citizens of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
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Compassionate Care of Chesterfield
To provide supportive services for senior adults, terminally ill patients and their familes who reside in chesterfield county.
Human Services
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Pittsylvania County Community
To increase awareness about poverty and to promote comprehensive approaches to eliminate conditions that cause poverty and improve the quality of life in communities throughout the service area.
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Wayne Township Pantry and Senior
The sole purpose of the food pantry is to provide food and basic needs items to indigent residents of wayne township who are on a very limited income and/or are facing a financial crisis. we assist those individuals so that they can…
Food & Nutrition
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Franklin County Council On Aging Inc
To enhance senior living for people age 50 and above by providing meals, programs, activities, and opportunities for education and good health.
Human Services
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Hampshire County Committee on Aging
To improve the quality of life for seniors by providing nutritious meals to senior citizens, in-home care services to medicaid eligible & private pay citizens and providing transportation.
Human Services
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Phoenixville Womens Outreach
Phoenixville Womens Outreach empowers women to self-sufficiency, stability, and independence by providing a comprehensive transitional housing program, affordable housing, supportive services, advocacy and education.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of and the most unlike its peers is Phi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/104
the rest of the field
9%
278/3,264
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.
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.
Chester County Community FoundationPA59.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Philabundance · The Alliance for Health Equity · The Dansko Foundation Inc · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family · Mitzvah Circle Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester · The Fund for Women and Girls
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Chester County Food Bank?
Find your warmest path to Chester County Food Bank through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines