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Food Gatherers

Our mission is to alleviate hunger and eliminate its root causes in washtenaw county, michigan.

$19M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$24k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$23,550
Largest grant, FY2024
$23,550
Organizations funded a year
2 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Food Gatherers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$24k0%
FY20232$83k0%
FY20223$55k0%
FY202127$236k81%
FY20203$25k33%
FY20192$15k0%
FY20185$50k20%
FY20174$51kn/a
100% 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$246kHuman Services$234kHealth$28kCommunity Improvement$25kReligion$6kHousing & Shelter$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Aid in Milan$106,675926%
Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc$89,30091%
Community Action Network$79,85093%
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County$60,25090%
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels$50,50041%
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$27,55090%
Beautiful Gate Church$16,0003n/a
Sos Community Services$11,00090%
Community Resource Center Inc$10,57584%
New Arbor Bible Church$6,0006n/a
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All grantees of Food Gatherers by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Aid in Milan$106,675926%
Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc$89,30091%
Community Action Network$79,85093%
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County$60,25090%
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels$50,50041%
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$27,55090%
Beautiful Gate Church$16,0003n/a
Sos Community Services$11,00090%
Community Resource Center Inc$10,57584%
New Arbor Bible Church$6,0006n/a
Saline Area Social Service Inc$6,00080%
Aileen Barnett Charitable Tr FBO Salvation Army$6,000328%
Northfields Human Services Inc Whitmore Lake Area Human Services$6,00091%
Faith in Action Inc$5,00081%
Bethesda Bible Church of Ypsilanti Inc$5,0005n/a
Brown Chapel a M E Church Foundation Inc$5,0006n/a
Active Faith Community Services$5,00091%
Christian Love Fellowship$5,0004n/a
Community Family Life Centers Inc$5,00037%
Ozone House Inc$1,87540%
Compassion Ministry of Milan$1,0006n/a
Avalon Nonprofit Housing Corporation$1,00060%
Emmanuel Lutheran Church$5006n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Food Gatherers supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAid in Milan: $106,675 over 9y, 26% of budgetJewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc: $89,300 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Action Network: $79,850 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetCatholic Social Services of Washtenaw County: $60,250 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYpsilanti Meals on Wheels: $50,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHope Medical Clinic Inc: $27,550 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSos Community Services: $11,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Resource Center Inc: $10,575 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetSaline Area Social Service Inc: $6,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAileen Barnett Charitable Tr FBO Salvation Army: $6,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetNorthfields Human Services Inc Whitmore Lake Area Human Services: $6,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetFaith in Action Inc: $5,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetActive Faith Community Services: $5,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Family Life Centers Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetOzone House Inc: $1,875 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAvalon Nonprofit Housing Corporation: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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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.

Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI67.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Trinity Health - Michigan · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · The Buhr Foundation · Duffy Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · DTE Energy 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 Gatherers

How much does Food Gatherers give?
Food Gatherers reported 1 itemized grants totaling $23,550, out of $18,565,025 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Food Gatherers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (46%), Human Services (43%), Health (5%).
Who are Food Gatherers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Aid in Milan ($107k), Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc ($89k), Community Action Network ($80k).
Does Food Gatherers fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Food Gatherers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, United Way of Washtenaw County, United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
Where is Food Gatherers based?
Food Gatherers is based in MI.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $19M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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