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Fishes & Loaves Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$273kArts & Culture$65kEducation$64kPhilanthropy$31kCommunity Improvement$11kHealth$6kReligion$4kCivil Rights$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$268k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$577k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in First Republic.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY$57,500
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL$15,000
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF UPPER MONTCLAIR$11,850
KLL FOUNDATION$10,000
SPECTRUM 360$3,200
THE COOPER SCHOOL$2,500
MONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST$1,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $58k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $41k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $35k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $33k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $26k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $26k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $18k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $16k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
KS
SC
TX
FL

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$670k · 18 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$670k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+31%

Still filing today

33%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HN
    HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +52%
  • MF
    MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +115%
  • MONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • E
    EDEYO
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • TA
    THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +35%
  • TL
    THE LAMP FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +73%

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
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
2
Montclair State University Foundation Inc

The montclair state university foundation ("the foundation") was established to encourage and support the growth and development of montclair state university through fundraising activities that help further the educational, experiential,…

Education
3
The Skin Cancer Foundation Inc

Public and medical education and research

4
Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…

Philanthropy
5
Mount Sinai Medical Legal Partnership Inc

Mount sinai medical legal partnership(msmlp)provides,coordinates and funds legal assistance and representation for low-income patients of the mount sinai health system facing a health-harming legal need.

Crime & Legal
6
Monmouth Park Charity Fund Inc

Raising of funds for distribution to monmouth county nj charities.

7
Monterra Community Fund

Monterra community fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fund created by monterra credit union to support our commitment to financial wellness in our community.

Community Improvement
8
Montgomery Academy

K-12 school serving students with special needs.

9
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
10
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation

To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…

Health
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
The German Marshall Fund of the United States

The german marshall fund of the united states (gmf) strives to champion democratic values and the transatlantic alliance by strengthening civil society, forging bold and innovative policy ideas, and developing a new generation of leaders…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair Film Festival Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Food PantriesLgbtq+ Community CentersIndependent K-8 SchoolsJewish Community FederationsAffordable Housing Developm…Land Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support OrganizationsInternational Christian Min…Fallen First Responder Supp…Developmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Veteran Support Services
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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr11%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr14%60%35–55yr11%8%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
12%
6,333/52,268

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC — $272,393 · Human ServicesHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF UPPER MONTCLAIR — $93,700 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF UPPER MONTCLAIRBROOKE JACKSON FOUNDATION — $34,800 · OtherBROOKE JACKSON FOUNDATIONMONTCLAIR HIGH GRIDIRON BOOSTER CLUB — $21,673 · OtherMONTCLAIR HIGH GRIDIRON BOOSTER CLUBCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $18,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $15,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILL STRONG FOUNDATION — $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $11,000 · OtherYALE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherKLL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+14 more — $40,945 · Other+14 moreMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC — $47,500 · Arts & CultureMONTCLAIR …NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL …KLL Memorial Scholarship Foundation — $35,000 · EducationKLL Memor…SPECTRUM360 — $25,200 · EducationSPECTRUM3…The Cooper School — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $29,750 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $1,500 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Community ImprovementEVA'S VILLAGE INC — $1,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LAMP FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,250 · HealthCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · HealthFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA — $1,000 · Health
Human Services$273,393Other$276,618Arts & Culture$64,500Education$63,700Philanthropy$31,250Community Improvement$11,000Health$6,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC — $272,393 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC — $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKLL Memorial Scholarship Foundation — $35,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $29,750 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetSPECTRUM360 — $25,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS — $3,995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMP FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOUT MONTCLAIR INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cooper School — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR POLICE FOUNDATION CORP — $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC
  • Who funds KLL Memorial Scholarship Foundation
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND
  • Who funds SPECTRUM360
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS
  • Who funds THE LAMP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OUT MONTCLAIR INC
  • Who funds The Cooper School
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR POLICE FOUNDATION CORP
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds Montclair High School Project Graduation Boosters Inc
  • Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC
  • Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc
  • Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

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.

Citizens Philanthropic Foundation IncNJ13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fishes & Loaves Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Eva's Village Inc19% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

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How do I get to Fishes & Loaves Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fishes & Loaves Foundation 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 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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