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Food Lifeline

FOOD LIFELINE's mission is to feed people experiencing hunger today while working to end hunger tomorrow.

$144M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$449k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$8.9MArts & Culture$449kHousing & Shelter$401kHuman Services$177kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kEducation$84kAnimals$47kHealth$30k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $1,829,139, the rows itemized in this filing. The $143,526,991 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $141,697,852 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $684k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $322k
  • $250k+2 grants · $823k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE$49,000
LUMMI INDIAN BUSINESS COUNCIL$49,000
PLANT BASED FOOD SHARE$47,000
TRIUMPH TEEN LIFE CENTER$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CO OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $381 → 11%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP-HELP WAREHOUSE: $298k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP-HELP WAREHOUSE: $37k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP-HELP WAREHOUSE: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $234k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $38k → 11%HOPELINK REDMOND: $145k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $3k → 11%SOUND GENERATIONS: $1k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $8k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $2k → 9%PIKE MARKET FOOD BANK: $702 → 9%HOPELINK SHORELINE: $226k → 9%CATHOLIC HOUSING SERVICES: $20k → 9%Seattle Indian Center Food Bank: $5k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA FOOD BANK: $3k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA FOOD BANK: $382 → 9%ERITREAN ASSOCIATION: $108 → 9%HIGHLINE AREA FOOD BANK: $2k → 9%HIGHLINE AREA FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%HIGHLINE AREA FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%HIGHLINE AREA FOOD BANK: $979 → 9%Highline Area Food Bank: $940 → 9%Highline Area Food Bank: $713 → 9%Hopelink Redmond: $75k → 9%ST MARTIN DE PORRES SHELTER: $418 → 9%ST MARTIN DE PORRES SHELTER: $92 → 9%HOPELINK REDMOND: $5k → 9%HOPELINK REDMOND: $494 → 9%SOUTH KING COUNTY FOOD COALITION: $374k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $60k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $55k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $42k → 9%Kent Food Bank: $3k → 9%KENT FOOD BANK: $2k → 9%The Silent Task Force: $32k → 9%KENT FOOD BANK: $2k → 9%Kent Food Bank: $1k → 9%KENT FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%KENT FOOD BANK: $950 → 9%KENT FOOD BANK: $876 → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $2k → 9%Issaquah Food Bank: $1k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $716 → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $713 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $2k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $666 → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB MEAL PROGRAM: $233 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 51 repeat orgs$956k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +51% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
39

Total granted

$9.2M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+51%

Still filing today

71%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AT
    Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank
    9× · 2017–2025 · $704k · revenue +99%
  • TC
    THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +118%
  • H
    HOPELINK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -48%
  • NA
    Northwest Animal Rights Network
    one grant, 2023 · $47k · revenue -46% · 35% of their budget
  • GF
    GIFTS FROM THE HEART FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue -11% · 37% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
Alameda Emergency Food Dba Alameda Food Bank

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
4
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
5
Selah-Naches Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
South Corvallis Food Bank

Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Resource Network

Increase people's ability to meet their own food needs.

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8
F I S H of Orchards Inc

FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.

Food & Nutrition
9
Storehouse Food Bank

Serving our community with healthy food and care.

Food & Nutrition
10
Siskiyou Community Food Bank

We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.

Food & Nutrition
11
Southeast Alaska Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Yakima Rotary Food Bank

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm; 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.
04the grantee network

245 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
78
Early backer (in before they grew)
235/245
Grantees still filing
193/245
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD LIFELINE FOUNDATION: $3,090,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LIFELINE FOUNDATIONAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank: $704,402 · Food & NutritionAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food BankTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $499,679 · Food & NutritionTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK+11 more: $290,512 · Food & Nutrition+11 moreSWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY: $628,000 · OtherSWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNI…ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE: $415,700 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLEVolunteers of America Western Washington: $359,002 · OtherVolunteers of America Western W…MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $282,319 · OtherMERCY HOUSING NORTHWESTNORTHWEST TRIBAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL: $140,000 · OtherLUMMI NATION: $106,000 · OtherPLANT BASED FOOD SHARE: $101,000 · OtherSolid Ground Washington: $97,034 · Other+49 more: $713,750 · Other+49 moreHOPELINK: $458,135 · Human ServicesHOPELINKSOUTH KING COUNTY FOOD COALITION SKCFC: $374,191 · Human ServicesSOUTH KING COUNTY FO…LOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $336,810 · Human ServicesLOWER COLUMBIA COMMU…COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $274,282 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF …The Silent Task Force: $188,505 · Human ServicesThe Silent Task Forc…OPERATION SACK LUNCH: $150,183 · Human ServicesOPERATION SACK LUNCH+13 more: $64,803 · Human ServicesSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $210,000 · HealthLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL: $139,959 · HealthTRIUMPH TEEN LIFE CENTER: $126,000 · EducationNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE: $76,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $204,750 · Public BenefitBLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE: $151,000 · Science & Tech
Food & Nutrition$4,584,593Other$2,842,805Human Services$1,846,909Health$349,959Education$207,000Public Benefit$204,750Science & Tech$151,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD LIFELINE FOUNDATION: $3,090,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank: $704,402 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $499,679 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetHOPELINK: $458,135 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington: $359,002 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $336,810 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $282,319 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $274,282 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $204,750 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetThe Silent Task Force: $188,505 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE: $151,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetOPERATION SACK LUNCH: $150,183 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL: $139,959 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTRIUMPH TEEN LIFE CENTER: $126,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE: $76,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $74,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER: $58,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $55,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPORT ANGELES FOOD BANK: $48,970 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwest Animal Rights Network: $47,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetGIFTS FROM THE HEART FOOD BANK: $38,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN FOOD BANK: $23,354 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $20,684 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY: $20,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS FOOD BANK: $16,580 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetMAPLE VALLEY FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: $13,050 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $12,853 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK: $12,799 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $12,230 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKENT FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: $11,812 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $9,861 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNooksack Valley Food Bank Association: $7,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $5,795 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSNOQUALMIE VALLEY FOOD BANK: $5,640 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $5,168 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COALITION FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSEATTLE INDIAN CENTER: $5,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetDES MOINES AREA FOOD BANK: $4,273 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF ENUMCLAW FOUNDATION: $3,569 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBremerton Foodline: $2,954 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR MULTICUTURAL HEALTH: $2,941 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $2,940 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRISON SCHOLAR FUND: $2,734 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIMMANUEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,371 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Northwest Harvest EmmPuget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of King Co…The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationMedina FoundationEmployees Community F…The Kroger Co Zero Hu…Emergency Food Networ…Harvest Against HungerEmployees Community F…Lucky Seven Foundation
Northwest Harvest EmmWA246.1× affinity154 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Food Lifeline funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Lifeline. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 97 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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