How much did FOOD FOR FAMILIES grant in FY2021?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of FOOD FOR FAMILIES’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath 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

salvation armyclosetchurchsaint vincentvincent paulfishaction

2019

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2020

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2021

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

$10k–50k1 grant · $39k
$50k–250k3 grants · $317k
$250k+8 grants · $6.0M

$530,516

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES$1,285,619
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK - SANTA CLARA & SAN MATEO COUNTIES$1,160,788
FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTASOLANO$911,204
SECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY$760,059
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$640,864
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$530,516
PLACER FOOD BANK$476,528
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$284,210
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$206,529
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK$56,315
MONTEREY COUNTY FOOD BANK$54,338
YOLO FOOD BANK$39,312

02The need

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 (FY17–18, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 71% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$17M · 77 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

77 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 66 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$338k

Still filing today

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

SF
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK AND FAMILY SERVICES
6× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +62%
FB
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +71%
PF
PLACER FOOD BANK
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +67%

Funded once

S
SFBFS
one grant, 2018 · $112k
SF
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK
one grant, 2017 · $74k
SH
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK - WATSONVILLE
one grant, 2017 · $37k

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.

San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin county.

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Community Food Bank of San Benito County

The organization distributes surplus, purchased, and donated food to households facing poverty.

Education

Second Harvest Food Bank

End food insecurity by providing dignified, equitable & consistent access to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo

Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy

Food & Nutrition

Imperial Valley Food Bank

The organization's mission is to acquire, store and distribute food to the low-income population experiencing hunger in imperial county, california.

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Foodbank of Southern California

Distribute food to nonprofit agencies

Food & Nutrition

Alameda Emergency Food

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition

Sedona Community Food Bank

Provides food to those in need in the verde valley & sedona arizona area.

Food & Nutrition

California Association of Food Banks

To eliminate hunger in california.

Food & Nutrition

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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Sky Valley Food Bank

Providing food for the needy

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Extrafood

To help end hunger and food waste in californias bay area.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and the most unlike its peers is Vaca Fish Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

10%

4,354/41,856

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

22/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$11,553,506Food & Nutrition$5,615,087Philanthropy$760,059Human Services$203,973Community Improvement$68,362

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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Sutter Health · California Association of Food Banks · Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services · Calfoods Logistics · Sutter Valley Hospitals · California Foundation For · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 FOR FAMILIES 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through 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: WINDSOR SERVICE ALLIANCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943196080 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 WINDSOR SERVICE ALLIANCE, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% 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 for Families?

Find your warmest path to Food for Families 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.

FOOD FOR FAMILIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food for Families?

More from the funding graph

FOOD FOR FAMILIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food for Families?

More from the funding graph