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· Public charity
FOOD FINDERS INC
To eliminate hunger and food waste while improving nutrition in food insecure communities.
$32M
Granted FY2021
2
Grants
1
Communities
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath 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
2018
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2019
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2020
feed hungry
2021
distribution remainingremaining fiscal
2022
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2023
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2024
hopeministrieshandslong beachbaptist churchpantryoutreach
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2021 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$2,534,653
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FARMLINK$2,534,653
- FARMLINK$2,178,445
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.
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 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.
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Food for People Inc
Food for people is a designated food bank committed to providing food for those in need.
Food & Nutrition
2
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
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3
Extrafood
To help end hunger and food waste in californias bay area.
Food & Nutrition
4
Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc
Together, we nourish our neighbors and improve their lives one meal at a time.
Food & Nutrition
5
Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley Inc
The Food Bank's purpose is to collect and warehouse salvageable food and commodities and to distribute those items to various area social agencies which assist the needy within Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron counties.
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6
The Houston Food Bank
The mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided 123 million nutritious meals in 18 counties through our 1,600 community partners.
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7
Community Food Bank of San Benito County
The organization distributes surplus, purchased, and donated food to households facing poverty.
Education
8
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
Leading the fight to end hunger, in partnership with our cmty. and in svcs. of our neighbors in need.
Food & Nutrition
9
Five Loaves & Two Fish Food Pantry
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
Human Services
10
The Food Bank for Central
Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.
Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Human Services
12
Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County
A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Food Bank Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows. 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
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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%6/294
the rest of the field
12%
22,286/186,684
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
206 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2021–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
195/206
Grantees still filing
167/206
Grew since you first funded
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.
Los Angeles Regional Food BankCA68.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · Farmlink Project · Food Forward Inc · Shelter Partnership Inc · Long Beach Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · United Way Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero · The Ralph M Parsons 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 FOOD FINDERS 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.
2025
’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY21–25
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.
04Through 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: FARMLINK.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +94% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 851398171 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 FARMLINK, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Food Finders Inc?
Find your warmest path to Food Finders Inc 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines