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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

+7%
0%

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
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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $351k · revenue +13%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $299k · revenue +4%
  • FF
    FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $294k · revenue +7%

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%
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 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.

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9
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoosier Hills Food Bank Inc; 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 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $351,186 over 3y, 1.4% 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, 1.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $131,099 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC: $117,558 over 1y, 1.6% 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
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 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

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 Indiana's Hungry Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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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