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Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish.

$103M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$249k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$1.4MInternational$118kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kPublic Benefit$13kReligion$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $249,279, the rows itemized in this filing. The $103,215,426 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $102,966,147 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$249,279
Median grant
1
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAVERICK CITY MUSIC INITIATIVE$249,279
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Ecclesia Houston: $25k → 16%Accord Network: $18k → 14%Crosspoint United Methodist Church: $11k → 8%Emmanual Church: $10k → 14%Maverick City Music Initiative: $629k → 14%World Relief: $100k → 19%Center for US Global Leadership: $13k → 14%Maverick City Music Initiative: $369k → 14%MAVERICK CITY MUSIC INITIATIVE: $249k → 14%Maverick City Music Initiative: $127k → 14%The Salvation Army: $10k → 14%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $103M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$84M · 81% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Central America and the Caribbean$7.4M · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

South America$5.9M · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

East Asia and the Pacific$3.5M · 3% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

South Asia$2.5M · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Middle East and North Africa$50k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 8 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAVERICK CITY MUSIC INITIATIVE INC: $1,375,455 · Arts & CultureMAVERICK CITY MUSIC INITIATIVE INCWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $100,000 · InternationalECCLESIA HOUSTON: $25,000 · OtherAccord Network: $18,000 · OtherCROSSPOINT CHURCH INC: $11,337 · OtherIMMANUEL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherCenter for US Global Leadership: $12,500 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$1,375,455International$100,000Other$74,337Public Benefit$12,500

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 budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAccord Network: $18,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCenter for US Global Leadership: $12,500 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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