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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.

$460k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$7.3M
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $185,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $460,064 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $275,064 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.
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING AMERICA$100,000
FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION$85,000
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION: $85k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NORTH ALABAMA: $1.1M → 11%FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA: $88k → 15%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.9M → 16%WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $270k → 17%WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK: $91k → 17%MONTGOMERY AREA FOOD BANK: $903k → 18%FEEDING THE GULF COAST: $864k → 19%SELLMA FOOD BANK: $181k → 33%FEEDING AMERICA: $100k → 14%FOOD BANK OF NORTH ALABAMA: $454k → 11%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $549k → 16%MONTGOMERY AREA FOOD BANK: $504k → 18%FEEDING THE GULF COAST: $234k → 19%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 4 repeat orgs$815k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$6.5M
$630k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.5M · revenue +22%
  • FB
    Food Bank of North Alabama Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +43%
  • HO
    HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • WA
    WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $270k · revenue -4%
  • SA
    SELMA AREA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $181k · revenue -18%
  • WA
    WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $91k · revenue +60%
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
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.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
3
Tillman County Food Bank Foundation
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4
Food Bank of Alaska

FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.

Food & Nutrition
6
Appling County Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition
9
Food Finders Food Bank Inc

To distribute surplus food and nonfood products.

Food & Nutrition
10
Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

—
12
Washington County Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to needy individuals and families.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc; 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.
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

COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $2,465,428 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMAFood Bank of North Alabama Inc: $1,520,914 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of North Alabama IncHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $1,406,798 · Food & NutritionHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INCFeeding the Gulf Coast: $1,098,166 · Food & NutritionFeeding the Gulf Coast+4 more: $456,883 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $269,736 · OtherFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC: $88,032 · Other
Food & Nutrition$6,948,189Other$357,768

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $2,465,428 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFood Bank of North Alabama Inc: $1,520,914 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $1,406,798 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $1,098,166 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $269,736 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSELMA AREA FOOD BANK: $180,598 over 1y, 21% of budgetFeeding America: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $91,285 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC: $88,032 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $85,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 AmericaSouthern Poverty Law …The Michael D and Net…The Daniel Foundation…Publix Super Markets …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Feeding AmericaIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Feeding Alabama funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feeding Alabama. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Feeding Alabama?

    Find your warmest path to Feeding Alabama 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 2022, released 2022. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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