How much did FOOD LIFELINE grant in FY2023?

Food & Nutrition$2.5MHuman Services$919kHealth$240kPublic Benefit$205kEducation$48kAnimals$47kScience & Tech$45kHousing & Shelter$21kPhilanthropy$16kOther$1.5M

02beneath 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

2019

healthbarriersnourishing nurturing

2020

homelessnourishing nurturing

2021

low-incomehealthhousinghomelessotherwise

2022

compassion dignitydignity respectrespect needingneeding turnedturned awayhousingnourishing

2023

mfpanimalspoliceenableviolenceblackfinancing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k38 grants · $62k
$10k–50k12 grants · $271k
$50k–250k8 grants · $745k

$2,558

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

BELLINGHAM FOOD BANK$120,000
TRI-PARISH FOOD BANK$120,000
MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST$120,000
LUMMI FOOD BANK$120,000
SEA MAR CHC$90,000
SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY$60,000
THE SILENT TASK FORCE$60,000
INSTITUTE FOR WA'S FUTURE$55,000
NW ANIMAL RIGHTS NETWORK$47,000
BLACK FARMER'S COLLECTIVE$45,000
CORP OF CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF SEATTLE$36,000
TRIUMPH TEEN LIFE CENTER$30,000
EMPOWER NEXT GENERATIONS$25,000
CATHOLIC HOUSING SERVICES$20,000
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE$13,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $765k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 38 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+63%

Still filing today

71%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

CB
CO Bellingham Food Bank
6× · 2018–2023 · $611k · revenue +99%
VO
Volunteers of America Sultan Food Bank
6× · 2018–2023 · $359k · revenue +488%
LC
Lower Columbia CAP-Help Warehouse
6× · 2018–2023 · $337k · revenue +14%

Funded once

FL
FOOD LIFELINE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue -54% · 95% of their budget
ST
SE Tacoma Nourish Food Bankgraduated
6× · 2018–2023 · $39k · revenue +27%
ST
Swinomish Tribal Food Bankgraduated
4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +41% · 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.

04Your 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.

Columbia Pacific Food Bank

Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.

Food & Nutrition

Lake Chelan Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition

Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in Washington State

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Sharenet Food Bank

Address hunger and poverty in North Kitsap with meaningful programs in a nourshing environment

Food & Nutrition

South Corvallis Food Bank

Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis

Food & Nutrition

Washington County Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to needy individuals and families.

Food & Nutrition

Alameda Emergency Food

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.

Food & Nutrition

Feed Spokane

Secure available food for those in need. Creating an efficient sustainable partnership between food donors, meal providers and outreach workers.

Human Services

Foothills Food Bank

Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

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Missoula Food Bank & Community Center

We lead the movement to end hunger through activism, volunteerism and healthy food for all. we nourish community.

Food & Nutrition

Yakima Rotary Food Bank

To Provide nutitious food of their choice to those requesting our assistance, with minimal barriers.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Unlimited Network and the most unlike its peers is Fusion-Friends United to Shelter. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%8/362

the rest of the field

11%

2,836/25,334

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.

05the grantee network

234 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

222/234

Grantees still filing

200/234

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$2,536,726Other$1,575,044Human Services$919,164Health$239,959Public Benefit$204,750Education$48,000Animals$47,000

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.

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.

Northwest Harvest EmmWA261.9× affinity162 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Employees Community Fund · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees of Community Fund · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Medina 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FOOD LIFELINE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~416 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475201113 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FOOD LIFELINE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 416 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Food Lifeline?

Find your warmest path to Food Lifeline 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.

FOOD LIFELINE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

234 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food Lifeline?

More from the funding graph

FOOD LIFELINE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

234 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food Lifeline?

More from the funding graph