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Food for Needy Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$407k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$171k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.9MReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $402k
$106,765
Median grant
4
States reached
$88k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARM SHARE INC$171,475
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER$123,416
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC$106,765
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$3,522
HOPE CHURCH OF CHRIST INC$1,600
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST MARY'S FOOD BANK: $35k → 11%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $239k → 15%THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY: $11k → 10%PHILABUNDANCE: $150k → 22%CITY HARVEST: $52k → 17%TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK: $150k → 11%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $283k → 21%THE SOUP KITCHEN: $5k → 11%HOPE CHURCH OF CHRIST INC: $2k → 13%FARM SHARE: $189k → 15%GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $107k → 16%FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6k → 21%ULTIMATE FOODS: $6k → 10%ST MARYS FOOD BANK: $35k → 11%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $111k → 15%PHILABUNDANCE: $100k → 22%CITY HARVEST: $36k → 17%JARAQ PRODUCE: $5k → 20%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $150k → 21%THE SOUP KITCHEN: $1k → 11%FARM SHARE INC: $171k → 15%ULTIMATE FOODS: $6k → 10%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $39k → 15%JARAQ PRODUCE: $4k → 20%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $145k → 21%FARM SHARE: $88k → 15%ULTIMATE FOODS: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $29k → 15%JARAQ PRODUCE: $3k → 20%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $128k → 21%FARM SHARE: $64k → 15%ULTIMATE FOODS: $3k → 10%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $26k → 15%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $123k → 21%FARM SHARE: $25k → 15%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $4k → 15%FOOD BANK FOR NY: $18k → 20%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $50k → 21%FARM SHARE: $5k → 15%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK: $15k → 20%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $18k → 21%FARM SHARE: $3k → 15%CITY HARVEST INC: $150k → 20%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $11k → 21%DOGGETT FREIGHTLINER: $202k → 15%FOOD BANK FOR NY: $14k → 20%SHARE FOOD PROGRAM OF PHILADELPHIA: $28k → 15%SHARE FOOD PROGRAM OF PHILADELPHIA: $9k → 15%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

AK
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
AZ
DC
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 14 repeat orgs$492k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$2.6M
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+61%

Still filing today

57%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • EP
    EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $909k · revenue ×14
  • FARM SHARE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +106%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $239k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $202k
  • TA
    Tarrant Area Food Bank
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +23%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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2
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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3
Feeding America

Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.

Food & Nutrition
4
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
5
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Depot

The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.

Human Services
7
Roadrunner Food Bank Inc

To feed every hungry person today, to seed partnerships that build self- sufficiency for tomorrow, and lead to achieve our vision of permanently ending hunger in new mexico.

Food & Nutrition
8
Chester County Food Bank

We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Houston Food Bank

Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…

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10
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan

We exist to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food and related resources. we accomplish this through collaboration, efficient operations, education, and innovative solutions to achieve a hunger-free community in…

Food & Nutrition
11
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
12
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc

The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Soup Kitchen 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. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $908,953 · Food & NutritionEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGERFARM SHARE INC: $545,106 · Food & NutritionFARM SHARE INCCommunity Food Bank Inc: $447,234 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank IncPhilabundance: $250,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceCITY HARVEST INC: $238,699 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC+3 more: $81,118 · Food & NutritionIndividual grant recipient: $201,624 · OtherIndividual grant reci…Tarrant Area Food Bank: $150,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food Ban…GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $106,765 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF…SHARE FOOD PROGRAM OF PHILADELPHIA: $36,500 · OtherSHARE FOOD PROGRAM OF…FOOD BANK FOR NY: $32,121 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NY+10 more: $65,762 · Other+10 more
Food & Nutrition$2,471,110Other$592,772

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $908,953 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFARM SHARE INC: $545,106 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $447,234 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPhilabundance: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $238,699 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $106,765 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $69,418 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC: $5,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $2,400 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds FARM SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Food for Needy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food for Needy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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