How much did Feeding America grant in FY2025?

Food & Nutrition$982MHuman Services$66MCommunity Improvement$27MPhilanthropy$17MHousing & Shelter$2.8MReligion$1.9MHealth$450kCivil Rights$425kOther$382M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

imperial valleybank eastenvironmentsaffordable housinglivingbvfb'svalley bank

2020

environmentslivingelderlybvfb'syouthninedepot

2021

mauipurchasepaddbvfb'sraisingdepotcapk

2022

criminal justicepurchasepaddcurrentbvfb'sraisingdepot

2023

women girlssocial problemsustainabilitygenderholyokehealersjustice

2025

direct distributionraisingconnect everyperson facingfacing mealscapkaction partnership

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 233 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $14k
$10k–50k6 grants · $147k
$50k–250k34 grants · $5.7M
$250k+189 grants · $189M

$619,895

Median grant

States reached

$572M

Total assets

Largest grants

MANNA FoodBank$5,161,046
Golden Harvest Food Bank$3,653,248
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina$3,598,905
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$3,142,984
Tarrant Area Food Bank$3,001,276
Atlanta Community Food Bank$2,947,329
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma$2,726,069
Mid-Ohio Foodbank$2,656,941
Treasure Coast Food Bank$2,561,114
Houston Food Bank$2,559,865
Maryland Food Bank$2,538,248
Feeding Tampa Bay$2,520,686
Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$2,450,502
Food Lifeline$2,337,524
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina$2,299,865

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $51.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5B · 270 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

270 repeat relationships — 222 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

270

Total granted

$1.5B

$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+94%

Still filing today

92%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

SH
Second Harvest Heartland
7× · 2018–2025 · $21M · revenue +102%
LA
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
5× · 2020–2025 · $19M · revenue +205%
LM
Lower Midwest Regional Cooperative
7× · 2018–2025 · $19M · revenue +163%

Funded once

NA
Native American Advancement Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $489k · revenue +213% · 32% of their budget
OW
Ourspace World Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +2499% · 31% of their budget
SD
San Diego Food System Alliancegraduated
one grant, 2023 · $425k · revenue +95%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Flathead Food Bank Inc

Eliminate hunger in the flathead valley through collaborative partnerships creating effective solutions to connect and strengthen individuals, families, and the community through access to healthy, nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding Illinois

To educate the public about the role of food banks in addressing hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition

West Alabama Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.

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Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc

Together, we nourish our neighbors and improve their lives one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Arlington Community Food Bank

The Arlington Community Food Bank's mission is to help end hunger in our community at its root cause.

Human Services

Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition

Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

Food & Nutrition

Food Systems News Inc

Food Bank News promotes conversation and information exchange about best practices in hunger relief via an independent, national news source to generate more effective and lasting solutions to hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Rainier Valley Food Bank

Distributing donated and purchased food to low-income households and homeless individuals.

Unclassified

Des Moines Area Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in our community by providing food assistance to any person in need.

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Foothills Food Bank

Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for the Heartland and the most unlike its peers is Second Harvest of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%2/303

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,262

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

282 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

277/282

Grantees still filing

255/282

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$982,333,281Other$383,141,239Human Services$66,455,296Community Improvement$27,171,892Philanthropy$17,335,064Housing & Shelter$2,814,590Religion$1,889,987

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.

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.

The Kroger Co Zero Hunger ZeroOH100.2× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero · Farmlink Project · The Kroger Co Foundation · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · Partnership for a Healthier America · Simple Generosity Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Share Our Strength · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Give Back Foundation

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 organisation Feeding America 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Feeding Washington.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +64% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 451913897 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Feeding Washington, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Feeding America?

Find your warmest path to Feeding America through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Feeding America

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

282 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Feeding America?

More from the funding graph

Feeding America

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

282 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Feeding America?

More from the funding graph