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FOOD FORWARD INC
Food forward(r) is one of the nation's largest independent urban produce recovery organizations.
$185M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath 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
unitsseniorinterestsadultrio hondoaffectedfeed
2019
pure landadultrio hondointerestsseniorbuddhistdonors
2020
unified districtholisticpreparingagricultural educationeducation disasterdisaster reliefcreative
2021
structuresdonationsencouragingemergencypatientshead startimperial valley
2022
church pantryoutcomesleadersinland empirebanksdelcollective
2023
godcollectiveneedy estimatedestimated valuefarmdisabilitydcrc
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $185,325,930.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$19M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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 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.
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Farm2People
Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles. We purchase surplus and onsold harvests from local, regional, underserved and independent farmers at a fair market rate while increasing…
Food & Nutrition
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Food Forward Inc
Food forward(r) is one of the nation's largest independent urban produce recovery organizations.
Food & Nutrition
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Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
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Daily Bowl
The mission of Daily Bowl is to glean, produce and distribute food and providing jobs to the community.
Food & Nutrition
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Interfaith Food Center
Providing food for the hungry.
Education
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Sustainable Economic Enterprises of La
Food access la's mission is to build sustainable food systems and fresh food access, promote social and cultural activities that benefit low-to-moderate income residents of los angeles county, and support california small and mid-size…
Community Improvement
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Everyones Harvest
Everyone's Harvest's mission is to provide access to healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables through certified farmers markets and community food programs.
Food & Nutrition
8
Laguna Food Pantry
Provide free groceries to individuals and families in need.
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Extrafood
To help end hunger and food waste in californias bay area.
Food & Nutrition
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California Emergency Foodlink
Provide emergency food assistance to emergency feeding organizations throughout california and work with various agencies to attack the issue of poverty.
Unclassified
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Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
Mission: lead our community to ensure that anyone who needs a healthy meal can get one.
Food & Nutrition
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Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County
A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothill Unity Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cornucopia Services. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%13/398
the rest of the field
13%
7,028/52,905
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.
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.
Shelter Partnership IncCA78.5× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Shelter Partnership Inc · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · United Way Inc · Food Finders Inc · Farmlink Project · Baby2baby · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson 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.
04Through Plinth
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Find your warmest path to Food Forward Inc 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.
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