· Public charity
Food for the Poor Inc
Our mission is to link the church of the first world with the church of the third world in a manner that helps both the materially poor and the poor in spirit.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $270,567 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $346,344,950 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $346,074,383 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LITTLE ROSES | $60,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITES DIOCESE OF ST PETERSBURG INC | $52,501 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PINE ISLAND | $32,615 |
| SEND RELIEF INC | $25,000 |
| IGLESIA BAUTISTA DE JESUCRISTO | $19,965 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA | $14,423 |
| FLORIDA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE-EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | $11,121 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE RALEIGH INC | $9,943 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON | $9,648 |
| PINELLAS HOPE CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $8,523 |
| TEAM OF LIFE | $7,500 |
| LIBERTY MOVEMENT MINISTRY INC | $7,500 |
| SOMERS LIONS CLUB | $6,300 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA | $5,528 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $345M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AID
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AID
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AID
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL4× · 2017–2023 · $855k · revenue +110%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation2× · 2021–2022 · $617k · revenue +41%
- TOTEAM OF LIFE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +39% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- MGMERCADO GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $295k · revenue +54%
- FBFood Bank Council of Michigan Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $175k · revenue +320%
- PCPROSPERITY CATALYST INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -48%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We are a christian ministry of charity, service and justice dedicated to providing help to those in need, hope to those in despair, and inspiration for others to follow.
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
To provide health care and services to those in need; to minimize human suffering; to assist people to wholeness and to nurture an awareness of their relationship with god.
Catholic charities carries out the social mission of the catholic church in northwest florida to serve, empower, and advocate for vulnerable families and individuals of any race, religion, or national origin.
Embracing those in need with hope, transforming their lives through faith, compassion, and service.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To provide service to people in need and to address social ills that undermind the dignity of the person. the ultimate goal of catholic charities is to create positive life changing opportunities for those in need without regard to color,…
To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.
Mission:mia's mission is to protect the dignity and improve the health and well-being of suffering and displaced people in crisis situations throughout the americas, regardless of faith, political belief or origin. *continued on schedule o
Catholic charities provides and advocates for the physical, emotional, and social needs of the poor and vulnerable. we focus our attention on people (individuals and families) who live in poverty and are marginalized in other ways. our…
To provide comprehensive, community-based outreach services to homeless individuals and families, by creating opportunities that will help break the cycle of homelessness.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, educational and religious purposes of advancing, promoting and supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations which operate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MERCADO GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY CATALYST INC ↗
- Who funds CODESPA AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF ST PETERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds ADORER MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH DOCTORS COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IGLESIA BAUTISTA DEJESUCRISTO INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Good360 · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 organization Food for the Poor 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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