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Eastern Produce Council Inc at a glance

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Eastern Produce Council Inc

To provide our membership with multiple networking opportunities in the produce industry and to advance the sales and awareness of fresh fruits and vegetables and to provide our membership with the most relevant, up-to-date information available about the industry.

$35k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Food & Nutrition$80kEducation$35kHealth$25kCommunity Improvement$15k
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$783k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$5,000
TOMORROW'S CHILDRENS FUND$5,000
PHILABUNDANCE$5,000
NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY$5,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$5,000
EVA'S VILLAGE$5,000
LEAD - NEW YORK (CO CORNELL UNIVERSITY)$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PHILABUNDANCE: $5k → 22%LEAD - NEW YORK (CO CORNELL UNIVERSITY): $5k → 16%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%TOMORROW'S CHILDRENS FUND: $5k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 10%NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5k → 11%EVA'S VILLAGE: $5k → 12%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%PHILABUNDANCE: $5k → 22%LEAD - NEW YORK (CO CORNELL UNIVERSITY): $5k → 16%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5k → 17%TOMORROW'S CHILDRENS FUND: $5k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 10%NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5k → 11%EVA'S VILLAGE: $5k → 12%PHILABUNDANCE: $5k → 22%LEAD - NEW YORK (CO CORNELL UNIVERSITY): $5k → 16%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5k → 17%TOMORROW'S CHILDRENS FUND: $5k → 7%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 10%NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5k → 11%EVA'S VILLAGE: $5k → 12%PHILABUNDANCE: $5k → 22%LEAD - NEW YORK (CO CORNELL UNIVERSITY): $5k → 16%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5k → 17%TOMORROW'S CHILDRENS FUND: $5k → 7%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 10%NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 8 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$145k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+145%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +113%
  • Philabundance
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +101%
  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +145%
  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +42%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

A medical school dedicated to excellence in the tripartite academic medical missions of education, scientific research, and clinical care.

Education
3
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…

Health
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tomorrows Children's Fund 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

10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philabundance: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Je…FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CI…EVA'S VILLAGE INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementEVA'S VILLAGE INCCornell University: $20,000 · EducationCornell UniversityRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FO…NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY AGRICUL…SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERS…TOMORROWS CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $20,000 · HealthTOMORROWS CHILDREN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…
Food & Nutrition$40,000Community Improvement$35,000Education$30,000Other$25,000Health$25,000

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 budgetNEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTOMORROWS CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPhilabundance: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eastern Produce Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eastern Produce Council Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Eastern Produce Council Inc?

Find your warmest path to Eastern Produce Council Inc 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 10 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $39k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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