· Public charity
Foodlink Foundation Inc
To provide funds for the benefit and support of charitable or educational organizations that distribute food to the needy, elderly or children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOODLINK INC | $25,706 |
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 (FY21–23, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +132% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
BEYOND THE SANCTUARY2× · 2021–2022 · $57k · revenue +295%
ST PETERS KITCHEN INC2× · 2021–2022 · $41k · revenue +88%- BMBARAKAH MUSLIM CHARITY INC2× · 2021–2023 · $37k · revenue +204%
Funded once
- WFWELLSPRING FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTERone grant, 2022 · $74k
- VFVictor Farmington Food Cupboard Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue +32%
- WHWARRIOR HOUSE OF WNY INCone grant, 2022 · $37k · revenue -81%
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.
The Rochester Food Pantry, an all-volunteer operation, provides food and personal hygiene items free of charge to needy residents who live in and around the Town of Rochester, New York.
We are a volunteer ministry that strives to alleviate food insecurity by providing nutritious food to our neighbors in need, clothing to the community, and safe affordable housing. We advocate for our clients with referrals to agencies…
We exist to ensure every person in our community can obtain the basic needs of life with dignity and respect.(Continued on Schedule O)By providing healthy food and connections to available community resources, Center4Hope moves people from…
Penfield HOPE responds to critical unmet needs of Penfield area residents through meaningful encounters, dialogue, and practical services. Penfield Hope's goal is to walk with clients as they work toward family and housing stability.…
To provide those in need with emergency food by working together with community members, leaders, and local businesses and organizations to gather, store, and distribute goods; to offer compassionate help as we respect the dignity of each…
Provide and deliver food and necessary goods to needy families and individuals in northeast rochester and irondequoit, new york.
Person to person services to those in need
Feeding the hungry and providing food assistance to needy families.
The AMEN Place operates as a Food Pantry in Amsterdam NY serving 800 plus families each week providing food to those who are at or below the federal poverty level. Food is distributed at no cost to our clients who are in need.
The east troy food pantry provides food and household relief for needy families
The ROC's mission is to break the cycle of rural poverty by accompanying people toward self-sufficiency. We assist, empower, and elevate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geneva Center of Concern Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Women's Christian Association of Rochester and Monroe County. 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 32 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 40 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
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 BEYOND THE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Victor Farmington Food Cupboard Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PETERS KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BARAKAH MUSLIM CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR HOUSE OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SENECA COUNTY HOUSE OF CONCERN INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSFORD FOOD CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CANANDAIGUA CHURCHES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF MIDDLESEX INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CENTER OF CONCERN INC ↗
- Who funds GREECE ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF AND CLOTHING CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds IRONDEQUOIT COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds DIMITRI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY RURAL MINISTRYCOME-UNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Greater Rochester 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: Foodlink Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Alstom Signaling Foundation Inc · Rochester Female Charitable Society · Glover-Crask Charitable Ta · Marie C and Joseph C Wilson Foundation Inc
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 Foodlink Foundation Inc 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.
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.