· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FTFEEDING TEXAS5× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +107%
- CNCHN NEBRASKA3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +60%
- TJTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $928k · revenue +98%
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%- CCCLAYTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $136k
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.
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.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.
How this is measured
234 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. 234 of the 366 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Food Research & Action Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Research & Action Center. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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