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Emergency Food Network

Provide food for three days of balanced meals to individuals and families.

$112k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
78%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$96k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$8,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,548
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$828k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 78% of the organizations Emergency Food Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’24
Housing & ShelterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$96k22%
FY20249$95k78%
FY20211$6k0%
FY20202$19k0%
FY20192$15k0%
FY20182$18kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$78kFood & Nutrition$74kYouth Development$39kHousing & Shelter$30kEducation$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless$50,39052%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia$38,77540%
Piedmont Housing Alliance$29,57720%
Charlottesville City Schools$28,2832n/a
International Neighbors Inc$17,10122%
Church of the Incarnation$13,9502n/a
Child Health Partnership Inc$13,87520%
Shelter for Help in Emergency Inc$12,00020%
Alliance for Interfaith Ministries$9,767110%
City of Promise Inc$6,2501n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.

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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Wardle Family Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr · Manning Family Foundation · Shames Family Foundation · Cassiopeia Foundation Inc · Perry Foundation Inc · The Oak Hill Fund

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.

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About Emergency Food Network

How much does Emergency Food Network give?
Emergency Food Network reported 9 itemized grants totaling $96,294, out of $111,851 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Emergency Food Network fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Food & Nutrition (30%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are Emergency Food Network's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless ($50k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia ($39k), Piedmont Housing Alliance ($30k).
Does Emergency Food Network fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Emergency Food Network?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Charlottesville, The Genan Foundation.
Where is Emergency Food Network based?
Emergency Food Network is based in VA.

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 11 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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