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· 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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$449kHuman Services$179kHealth$31kReligion$22kRecreation & Sports$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,706
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOODLINK INC$25,706
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WAYNE CAP SUCCESS CENTER- TRANSITIONAL HOUSE: $7k → 11%SENECA COUNTY HOUSE OF CONCERN: $15k → 14%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE- MIDDLESEX: $7k → 15%SENECA COUNTY HOUSE OF CONCERN: $7k → 14%CANANDAIGUA CHURCHES IN ACTION: $7k → 10%BEYOND THE SANCTUARY- MEMORIAL AME ZION CHURCH: $50k → 14%BEYOND THE SANCTUARY- MEMORIAL AME ZION CHURCH: $7k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $7k → 14%RAIHN-ROCH AREA INTERFAITH: $6k → 14%YWCA OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY: $7k → 14%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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 6 repeat orgs$489k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
34

Total granted

$225k
$489k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • BEYOND THE SANCTUARY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $57k · revenue +295%
  • ST PETERS KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $41k · revenue +88%
  • BM
    BARAKAH MUSLIM CHARITY INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $37k · revenue +204%

Funded once

  • WF
    WELLSPRING FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $74k
  • VF
    Victor Farmington Food Cupboard Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue +32%
  • WH
    WARRIOR HOUSE OF WNY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $37k · revenue -81%
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
Rochester Food Pantry

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.

Human Services
2
St Andrews Food Cupboard Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Center4Hope Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Penfield Hope Inc

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.…

Human Services
5
Wilton Food Pantry

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Community Food Cupboard of Rochester Inc

Provide and deliver food and necessary goods to needy families and individuals in northeast rochester and irondequoit, new york.

Food & Nutrition
7
St Vincent De Paul Society District Council of Rochester Ny

Person to person services to those in need

Human Services
8
Hudson Community Food Pantry Corp
Food & Nutrition
9
Ossining Food Pantry

Feeding the hungry and providing food assistance to needy families.

Human Services
10
Amen Place Soup Kitchen

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
East Troy Food Pantry Inc

The east troy food pantry provides food and household relief for needy families

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12
The Rural Outreach Center Inc

The ROC's mission is to break the cycle of rural poverty by accompanying people toward self-sufficiency. We assist, empower, and elevate.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geneva Center of Concern Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WELLSPRING FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER: $73,660 · OtherWELLSPRING FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTERST PETERS KITCHEN: $32,811 · OtherST PETERS KITCHENTRILLIUM HEALTH INC: $31,905 · OtherTRILLIUM HEALTH INCVeterans Outreach Center Inc: $25,000 · OtherVeterans Outreach Center IncSTANDREWS FOOD CUPBOARD: $21,805 · OtherSTANDREWS FOOD CUPBOARDGENESSEE ORLEANS CAP: $16,423 · OtherMASTERS TABERNACLE INC: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $98,400 · Other+13 moreVictor Farmington Food Cupboard Inc: $47,885 · Food & NutritionVictor Farmington Food Cu…ST PETERS KITCHEN INC: $41,100 · Food & NutritionST PETERS KITCHEN INCFOODLINK INC: $35,706 · Food & NutritionFOODLINK INCPITTSFORD FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $16,000 · Food & NutritionPITTSFORD FOOD CUPBOARD I…IRONDEQUOIT COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $6,905 · Food & NutritionGREECE ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF AND CLOTHING CLOSET INC: $6,905 · Food & NutritionDIMITRI HOUSE INC: $6,250 · Food & NutritionBEYOND THE SANCTUARY: $56,910 · Human ServicesBEYOND THE SANCTUAR…SENECA COUNTY HOUSE OF CONCERN INC: $22,282 · Human ServicesSENECA COUNTY HOUSE…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY: $7,405 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRIS…WAYNE COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $7,405 · Human ServicesWAYNE COUNTY ACTION…WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $7,405 · Human ServicesWILLOW DOMESTIC VIO…FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF MIDDLESEX INC: $6,905 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF…CANANDAIGUA CHURCHES IN ACTION INC: $6,905 · Human ServicesCANANDAIGUA CHURCHE…Family Promise of Greater Rochester Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesBARAKAH MUSLIM CHARITY INC: $36,680 · Public BenefitWARRIOR HOUSE OF WNY INC: $36,528 · Recreation & SportsROCHESTER HOPE INC: $30,279 · Community ImprovementGENEVA CENTER OF CONCERN INC: $6,905 · PhilanthropyWAYNE COUNTY RURAL MINISTRYCOME-UNITY CENTER INC: $6,250 · Health
Other$315,004Food & Nutrition$160,751Human Services$120,717Public Benefit$36,680Recreation & Sports$36,528Community Improvement$30,279Philanthropy$6,905Health$6,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEYOND THE SANCTUARY: $56,910 over 2y, 11% of budgetVictor Farmington Food Cupboard Inc: $47,885 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetST PETERS KITCHEN INC: $41,100 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBARAKAH MUSLIM CHARITY INC: $36,680 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetWARRIOR HOUSE OF WNY INC: $36,528 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $35,706 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRILLIUM HEALTH INC: $31,905 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER HOPE INC: $30,279 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSENECA COUNTY HOUSE OF CONCERN INC: $22,282 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPITTSFORD FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $16,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $9,905 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY: $7,405 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $7,405 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $7,405 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIRONDEQUOIT COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $6,905 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF MIDDLESEX INC: $6,905 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetGENEVA CENTER OF CONCERN INC: $6,905 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCANANDAIGUA CHURCHES IN ACTION INC: $6,905 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetGREECE ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF AND CLOTHING CLOSET INC: $6,905 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY RURAL MINISTRYCOME-UNITY CENTER INC: $6,250 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDIMITRI HOUSE INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Foodlink IncUnited Way of Greater…Greater Rochester Hea…Esl Charitable Founda…Rochester Area Commun…Paychex Charitable Fo…Max and Marian Farash…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Alstom Signaling Foun…Rochester Female Char…Glover-Crask Charitab…Marie C and Joseph C …
Foodlink IncNY82.5× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foodlink Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foodlink Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 40 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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