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Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$343k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$2.0MCommunity Improvement$63kPublic Benefit$36k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $762k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
$228,101
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food Bank of Northern Indiana$343,327
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana$292,181
Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast IN$290,711
Food Finders Food Bank$287,772
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central IN$228,101
Tri-State Food Bank$175,191
Catholic Charities Terre Haute$131,099
Hoosier Hills Food Bank$117,558
Dare to Care Food Bank$110,523
Freestore Foodbank$23,516
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast IN: $291k → 12%Food Bank of Northern Indiana: $343k → 13%Food Bank of Northwest Indiana: $292k → 15%Tri-State Food Bank: $175k → 15%INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $25k → 16%Catholic Charities Terre Haute: $131k → 19%Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central IN: $228k → 19%Food Finders Food Bank: $288k → 19%Freestore Foodbank: $24k → 16%COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK: $7k → 12%FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA: $7k → 15%INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $23k → 16%FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $6k → 19%INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $15k → 16%ONWARD & UPWARD STRATEGIES: $19k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 6 repeat orgs$786k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$786k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+32%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $786k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $351k · revenue +23%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $299k · revenue +4%
  • IC
    INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +291%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $228k · revenue +60%
  • TF
    TRI-STATE FOOD BANKgraduated
    2× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +32%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc
    one grant, 2025 · $131k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
2
Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc

The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
5
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
6
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
7
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
8
Food Bank for the Heartland

To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.

9
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

10
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio

To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition
11
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

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

Food & Nutrition
12
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoosier Hills Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indiana Community Action Association 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $351,186 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INCFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC — $298,794 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INCCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $297,485 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC — $293,981 · Food & NutritionFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INCSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $228,101 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INCHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC — $117,558 · Food & NutritionHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INCDARE TO CARE INC — $110,523 · Food & NutritionDARE TO CARE INC+1 more — $23,516 · Food & NutritionTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $175,191 · OtherTRI-STATE FOOD BANKCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc — $131,099 · OtherCatholic Charities Te…INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC — $63,000 · OtherINDIANA COMMUNITY ACT…Individual grant recipient — $36,117 · OtherIndividual grant reci…
Food & Nutrition$1,721,144Other$405,407

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $351,186 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC — $298,794 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $297,485 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC — $293,981 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc — $131,099 over 1y, 12% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC — $110,523 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC — $63,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $23,516 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Feeding AmericaIL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Feeding America · Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry Inc · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Million Meal Movement Inc · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Hatch Inc · Partnership for a Healthier America Inc · The Westfield Insurance 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 organization Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    10report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Feeding Indiana's Hungry 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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