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Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundati
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 124 grants below total $3,256,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,692,858 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,436,258 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $452k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $729k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA Food Bank, Inc. | $1,000,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee | $300,000 |
| Golden Harvest Food Bank, Inc. | $300,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, Inc. | $300,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, Inc. | $167,300 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, Inc. | $150,000 |
| World Central Kitchen, Inc. | $100,000 |
| Meals on Wheels America | $100,000 |
| Salvation Army National Corp. | $100,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee | $57,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, Inc. | $55,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia, Inc. | $37,300 |
| Golden Harvest Food Bank, Inc. | $15,000 |
| Salvation Army - Greenville | $10,000 |
| Greenville Tech Foundation, Inc. | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Food distribution to the needy
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To provide nutritious meals to the hungry and food insecure in Jackson County, NC in a welcoming environment. We do this through our soup kitchen, food pantry and community garden programs.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
The mission of burke united christian ministries is to restore resilience in people living in poverty or experiencing homelessness, ensuring their essential needs are met.
Food Pantry
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
To reduce hunger and poverty in the Tri-County Area by providing individuals and families with food, clothing, shelter, resource and spiritual support while striving to employ, educate and empower.
Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
Provide food for the needy
The Pantry seeks to offer the Bread of Life to our community by providing quality food and building quality relationships rooted in the love ofJesus. Due to the strong need in our community, The Pantry at Hamilton Mill was created to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greensboro Urban Ministry and the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Catoosa. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 357 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
Open a dossier: Lowcountry Food Bank Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Lion Feeds Charitable Foundati 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.
- Laurel Advocacy & Referral Services Inc — 53% of income from government
- Life Crisis Center Inc — 24% of income from government
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.
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