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Food and Nutrition Resources Founda at a glance

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Food and Nutrition Resources Founda

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$4k
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 2023.

Food & Nutrition$69kEnvironment$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kCommunity Improvement$7kEmployment$3kHealth$2k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$603k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FOR FARMERS$4,000
DAILY TABLE$3,000
FOOD FORWARD$2,500
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 (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FOOD PROJECT: $3k → 8%GREENAGERS: $2k → 12%DAILY TABLE: $3k → 16%INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $4k → 9%KITCHENS FOR GOOD: $3k → 11%FOOD FORWARD: $3k → 14%REFED COVID-19 FOOD WASTE SOLUTION: $2k → 13%FRESH RX: $3k → 11%OTHER 501C3 CHARITIES: $4k → 13%AFTER THE HARVEST: $3k → 15%SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL: $3k → 14%WHOLESOME WAVE: $3k → 9%TABLE TO TABLE: $2k → 7%FOOD FOR FARMERS: $4k → 10%CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE NARRATIVES: $2k → 6%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $3k → 9%THE FOOD PROJECT: $2k → 8%DAILY TABLE: $3k → 16%INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $3k → 9%KITCHENS FOR GOOD: $2k → 11%FOOD FORWARD: $3k → 14%OTHER 501C3 CHARITIES: $3k → 13%SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL: $3k → 14%FOOD 4 FARMERS: $4k → 10%DAILY TABLE: $3k → 16%FOOD FORWARD: $3k → 14%OTHER 501C3 CHARITIES: $2k → 13%SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL: $3k → 14%FOOD 4 FARMERS: $3k → 10%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%FOOD FORWARD: $2k → 14%FOOD 4 FARMERS: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 9 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$72k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+3%

Still filing today

78%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionEnvironmentInternationalCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • F4
    FOOD 4 FARMERS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • FF
    FOOD FORWARD INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -17%
  • TF
    Table For Two USA
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -36%
  • AT
    AFTER THE HARVEST
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -32%
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
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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3
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Eat Real Certified Inc

We empower food service programs and school districts to make food delicious, nourishing, and responsible through our evidence-based certification program. We provide education and support that inspires students, schools, and communities…

Public Benefit
5
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
6
Second Chance Foods Inc

Second Chance Foods (SCF or the Organization) is dedicated to reducing food waste by rescuing food that would otherwise be discarded, reducing hunger on a local basis while elevating the health of those served by the program, and reducing…

Food & Nutrition
7
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
8
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
9
Fresh Approach

The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Connect Co

At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…

Food & Nutrition
11
Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Conservation Law Foundation 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD 4 FARMERS INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD 4 FARMERS INCFOOD FORWARD INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FORWARD INCTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $9,000 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INCThe Food Project Inc: $4,500 · Food & NutritionThe Food Project IncTable For Two USA: $3,000 · Food & NutritionTable For Two USAFRESH RX INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionFRESH RX INCTABLE TO TABLE INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionOTHER 501C3 CHARITIES: $9,210 · OtherOTHER 501C3 CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $5,000 · OtherKITCHENS FOR GOODFOOD FOR FARMERS: $4,000 · OtherFOOD FOR FARMERSAFTER THE HARVEST: $3,000 · OtherAFTER THE HARVESTCENTER FOR HEALTHCARE NARRATIVES: $2,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEALTHCARE NARRATIVESREFED COVID-19 FOOD WASTE SOLUTION: $2,000 · OtherREFED COVID-19 FOOD WASTE SOLUTIONMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $3,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coas…WHOLESOME WAVE INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentWHOLESOME …Rainforest Action Network: $2,000 · EnvironmentRainforest…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATI…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $6,900 · Community ImprovementThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $3,000 · Employment
Food & Nutrition$43,000Other$33,710Environment$10,000International$9,000Community Improvement$6,900Employment$3,000

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 budgetFOOD 4 FARMERS INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $6,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTable For Two USA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRESH RX INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Food and Nutrition Resources Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food and Nutrition Resources Founda. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Food and Nutrition Resources Founda 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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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