· Public charity
Feeding Alabama
To end hunger by assisting food bank networks in obtaining more food and funds, fostering public awareness of the food banks' mission, and creating partnerships to alleviate hunger in alabama.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $185,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $460,064 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $275,064 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $100,000 |
| FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION | $85,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA2× · 2020–2021 · $2.5M · revenue +22%
- FBFood Bank of North Alabama Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +42%
- HOHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- WAWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $270k · revenue -4%
- SASELMA AREA FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $181k · revenue -18%
- WAWIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $91k · revenue +60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To end hunger by assisting food bank networks in obtaining more food and funds, fostering public awareness of the food banks' mission, and creating partnerships to alleviate hunger in alabama.
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To distribute surplus food and nonfood products.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SELMA AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Food Research & Action Center ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Feeding America · Southern Poverty Law Center Inc · The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Feeding Alabama funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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