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COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
Operate as central clearing house for collecting, sorting, storing, and distributing food to qualified organizations which serve the needy through their programs.
$38M
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
2018
holisticumcworksstudentsintellectual developmentaldevelopmental disabilitiesapostolic
2019
summer mealsanimaldistribution driveawarenessholisticlinkbirmingham-southern
2020
girlsweekenders backpackdistribution drivedrive tanfdirectetowah distributionwalker distribution
2021
kids cafematthewg worksheetworksheet governmentdrive tanfdistribution driveetowah baptistumc
2022
etowah baptistfaith churchseniorstraining
2024
mobile pantrysenior groceryelementary marketchurch mobilehudadecanon-usdapark baptist
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: $38,330,235.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$32M
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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Dale County Rescue Mission
The Rescue Missions Purpose is to provide food, housing, transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients. Those served are spiritually ministered.
Human Services
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Limestone County Churches Involved
To provide food and general assistance to individuals of Limestone County Alabama who are facing short term financial crisesTo mobilize churches of Limestone County to provide a prayerful way to meet the physical and spiritual needs of…
Religion
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Forgiven the Evangelistic Ministry
Ministry
Religion
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Daily Bread Ministries Inc
Provide meals to the needy and provide housing for indiviuals/families who wish to leave homelessness and enable themselves to enter or re-enter the workforce.
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Community Ministries Inc
Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.
Religion
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Our Daily Bread Christian Food Ministry Inc
The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.
Human Services
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Grace & Mercy Ministries
To Provide Food, Shelter, and Spiritual Guidance to the Least, Last, and Lost. The ministry seeks to meet the basic needs of the community providing food, clothing, hygiene kits, and job assistance.
Religion
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Born Again Ministries
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
Health
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Emergency Christian Ministries Inc
A religious and community-based ministry for those who are homeless and in need.
Human Services
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God Provides Ministry
Provide food to homeless veterans and others
Food & Nutrition
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The Lords Table a Ministry of Rccg
Food Pantry - Providing Food and other household items to people in the community
Religion
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Abyssisian Missionary Baptist Church
Feed the homeless of the community
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundry Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holy Family Cristo Rey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%4/256
the rest of the field
13%
797/6,321
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.
The Community Foundation of GreaterAL78.7× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Navigate Affordable Housing Partners · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Holle Family 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Community Food Bank of Central Alabama?
Find your warmest path to Community Food Bank of Central Alabama 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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