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Food Research & Action Center
We improve the nutrition, health, and well-being of people struggling against poverty-related hunger in the united states through advocacy, partnerships, and by advancing bold and equitable policy solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $5.3M
- $250k+16 grants · $7.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cherokee Nation | $941,763 |
| GRETCHEN SWANSON CENTER FOR NUTRITION | $779,614 |
| University of South Dakota | $642,347 |
| Rhode Island Department of Health | $569,927 |
| UnidosUS | $503,475 |
| The Opportunity Alliance | $460,991 |
| Blue Valley Community Action Inc | $415,753 |
| Community Progress Council | $406,592 |
| Tennessee Justice Center | $401,392 |
| Hawai'i Children's Action Network | $395,840 |
| Mississippi State Department of Health | $366,612 |
| Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona Inc | $344,429 |
| State of NJ Treasurer | $324,900 |
| The Praxis Project | $305,748 |
| Health Imperatives Inc | $300,338 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
112 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $980k 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
- FTFEEDING TEXAS5× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +154%
- CNCHN NEBRASKA3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +60%
- TJTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $928k · revenue +178%
Funded once
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $577k · revenue +49%
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $255k · revenue +45%- SBSOUTH BEND COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $136k
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.
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To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Days and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Mission Project Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
234 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 234 of the 366 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.
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR A HUNGER FREE OREGON ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHN NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds END HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FRAC Action Council ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD TRUST ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Partnership for Children & Youth ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS HUNGER COALITION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL NUTRITION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc ↗
- Who funds COMUNIDAD MATERNA EN UTAH ↗
- Who funds Southcentral Foundation ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
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: The Albertsons Companies Foundation · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Share Our Strength · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Center for Law and Social Policy · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Kroger Co Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Feeding America
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 Research & Action Center 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Muslim Social Services Agency — 65% of income from government
- Legal Services of New Jersey Inc — 53% of income from government
- Ywca Delaware Inc — 50% of income from government
- Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon — 31% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Integral Youth Services — 29% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 22% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Collier Health Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces — 3% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% 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.