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California · Public charity

Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

$185M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
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Total assets, FY2024
$19M

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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.

Los Angeles Regional …United Way IncShelter Partnership I…Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…Baby2babyFood Finders IncFarmlink ProjectCalifornia Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Hollywood Food Coalit…The Annenberg Foundat…
Los Angeles Regional Food BankCA81.6× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · United Way Inc · Shelter Partnership Inc · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Baby2baby · Food Finders Inc · Farmlink Project · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Hollywood Food Coalition · The Annenberg Foundation

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.

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About Food Forward Inc

How much does Food Forward Inc give?
Food Forward Inc reported $185,325,930 in grants in its FY2024 IRS filing. Individual grant detail isn't itemized in the e-filed return we have. It is referenced on an attached schedule, or the latest filing isn't in our corpus yet.
Which funders back the same organizations as Food Forward Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, United Way Inc, Shelter Partnership Inc.
Where is Food Forward Inc based?
Food Forward Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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