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Dfacares Foundation

To provide disaster relief through product and monetary donation, and invest in the future of our industry with scholarships to students looking to pursue careers in dairy.

$930k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$732kEducation$110kHuman Services$100kEnvironment$86kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kYouth Development$40kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $929,520 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $899,520 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$941k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNUNCIATION HOPE AND HEALING$10,000
LEGACY 2 INSPIRE$10,000
LE MARS BACK PACK PROGRAM$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RIVER WORKS FOOD SHELF: $6k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%LE MARS AREA CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 7%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
SD
IA
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KS
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$313k · 5 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
37

Total granted

$313k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+24%

Still filing today

80%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EM
    EVERY MEAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +558%
  • CF
    Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $86k · revenue +46%
  • AF
    AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • I5
    ITEMS 5000 EACH
    one grant, 2020 · $240k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    3× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +17%
  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +24%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
5
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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7
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank for the Heartland

To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.

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9
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Tri County Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $161,321 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDEVERY MEAL: $128,531 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEALConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $86,418 · Food & NutritionConnecticut Farmland Trust IncFeeding America: $79,061 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $75,196 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INCFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $28,788 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $28,788 · Food & Nutrition+8 more: $87,578 · Food & Nutrition+8 moreITEMS 5000 EACH: $240,197 · OtherITEMS 5000 EACHAMERICAN RED CROSS: $55,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSSAMARITAN CENTER: $50,000 · OtherSAMARITAN CENTERNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $30,360 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKOTHERS LESS THAN 5000: $16,800 · Other+11 more: $103,285 · Other+11 moreHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UN…LEGACY 2 INSPIRE: $20,000 · EducationLEGACY 2 I…BOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · EducationBOUNTIFUL …AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $28,221 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLE MARS COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 · Human ServicesRIVERWORKS: $5,983 · Human ServicesFEEDING TEXAS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementThe Humanity Alliance: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health
Food & Nutrition$675,681Other$495,642Education$130,000Youth Development$38,221Human Services$31,983Community Improvement$30,000Philanthropy$20,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $161,321 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $128,531 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $86,418 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetFeeding America: $79,061 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $75,196 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $30,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA: $28,788 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $28,788 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $28,221 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY 2 INSPIRE: $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $18,319 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $12,779 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank Council of Michigan Inc: $11,185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLE MARS COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEED OUR VETERANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES MIDWEST MN WI IA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAUKVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY SHARING OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Humanity Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $6,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERWORKS: $5,983 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Feeding AmericaOtto Bremer TrustEdward Jones Foundati…Land O'Lakes Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…Marni & Morris Propp …Mightycause Charitabl…Alliant Energy Founda…Baird Foundation IncGreat Plains Food BankHunger Solutions Minn…Saint Paul & Minnesot…
Feeding AmericaIL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Feeding America · Otto Bremer Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Great Plains Food Bank · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dfacares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dfacares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 58%
  • Boys' & Girls' Club of New Britain Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Dfacares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dfacares Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home