· Public charity
Food Lifeline
FOOD LIFELINE's mission is to feed people experiencing hunger today while working to end hunger tomorrow.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $1,829,139 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $143,526,991 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $141,697,852 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $684k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $322k
- $250k+2 grants · $823k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY | $449,000 |
| SOUTH KING COUNTY FOOD COALITION | $374,191 |
| HOPELINK REDMOND | $145,134 |
| SOLID GROUND | $97,034 |
| TENINO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER | $80,000 |
| LUMMI INDIAN BUSINESS COUNCIL | $49,000 |
| BLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE | $49,000 |
| TRIUMPH TEEN LIFE CENTER | $47,000 |
| PLANT BASED FOOD SHARE | $47,000 |
| TRI-PARISH FOOD BANK | $46,000 |
| BELLINGHAM FOOD BANK | $45,000 |
| CORP OF CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF SEATTLE | $45,000 |
| NATIONS SOCIAL SERVICES | $44,200 |
| THE SILENT TASK FORCE | $42,000 |
| SEA MAR CHC | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668k 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
- ATAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank9× · 2017–2025 · $704k · revenue +99%
- TCTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +118%
- HHOPELINK9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTUREone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -48%
- NANorthwest Animal Rights Networkone grant, 2023 · $47k · revenue -46% · 35% of their budget
- GFGIFTS FROM THE HEART FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue -11% · 37% of their budget
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.
The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.
Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.
Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.
The Organization's mission is to feed hungry people by soliciting and judiciously distribution food and grocery products and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to the problems of hunger.
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.
Serving our community with healthy food and care.
We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.
Increase people's ability to meet their own food needs.
The mission of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank is to provide nutritious food for those who are without, serving as a community bridge between those who want to help and those who are in need.
Lake county food share inc is an organization whose purpose is to coordinate and to meet both supplemental and emergency food needs of families and individuals in lake county, oregon.
To Provide nutitious food of their choice to those requesting our assistance, with minimal barriers.
FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Inland Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Faith House Ministries. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
245 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.
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 FOOD LIFELINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KING COUNTY FOOD COALITION SKCFC ↗
- Who funds Volunteers of America Western Washington ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Silent Task Force ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SACK LUNCH ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST TRIBAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH TEEN LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
- Who funds Tenino Community Service Center ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Northwest Animal Rights Network ↗
- Who funds GIFTS FROM THE HEART FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds AUBURN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY ↗
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: Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County · Harvest Against Hunger · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Lucky Seven 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Food Lifeline 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.