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Freestore Foodbank Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Freestore Foodbank Inc

Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.

$358k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$69k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$27MCommunity Improvement$98k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $347,748, the rows itemized in this filing. The $357,748 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $207k
$12,658
Median grant
3
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUR STORE OF THE QUEEN CITY$69,150
QUEEN MOTHER'S MARKET COOPERATIVE$68,750
MONARCH GLOBAL MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC$68,750
ISAIAH 55 INC$43,750
INTER PARISH MINISTRY$41,300
CENTRAL PRODUCTS LLC-CENTRAL RESTAURANT PRODUCTS$12,658
LOVELAND INTER FAITH EFFORT INC-LIFE FOOD PANTRY$10,000
MOM'S FOOD PANTRY - FAITH TABERNACLE$9,411
THE SALVATION ARMY - CINCINNATI CENTER HILL CORPS$8,880
BE CONCERNED$7,900
LINCOLN HEIGHTS OUTREACH INC (LHIO)$7,199
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DEARBORN CO CLEARINGHOUSE FOR EMERGENCY: $9k → 11%HOPE EMERGENCY PROGRAM: $10k → 15%PIKE COUNTY OUTREACH COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC: $8k → 20%THE POTTER'S HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $14k → 22%BE CONCERNED: $8k → 11%DEARBORN CO CLEARINGHOUSE FOR EMERGENCY AID: $5k → 11%HELPING HANDS IN CHRISTIAN SERVICE: $49k → 16%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY: $7k → 20%SCIOTO CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $13k → 22%BE CONCERNED INC: $5k → 11%LOVELAND INTER FAITH EFFORT INC-LIFE FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY: $2k → 20%THE POTTER'S HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $9k → 22%BE CONCERNED: $5k → 11%HELPING HANDS IN CHRISTIAN SVCS INC: $7k → 16%THE POTTER'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 22%BE CONCERNED: $35 → 11%MADISONVILLE EDUCATION & ASSISTANCE CTR: $5k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $11k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (SVDP): $9k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (SVDP): $7k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (SVDP): $5k → 16%FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 16%ISAIAH 55 INC: $44k → 16%ISAIAH 55 INC: $40k → 16%THE HEALING CENTER INC: $23k → 16%THE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION: $6.0M → 16%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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 17 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
33

Total granted

$8.5M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

65%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementReligionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YS
    Your Store of the Queen City
    2× · 2024–2025 · $98k · revenue +19%
  • IP
    Inter Parish Ministry Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $89k · revenue +5%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS IN CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $56k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • FI
    FG-HOPE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $18M · revenue -99% · 99% of their budget
  • CE
    Community Economic Advancement Initiative Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $83k · revenue 0%
  • TH
    The Healing Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $23k · 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
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
2
Community for Christ Outreach

Religious Orginazation

Housing & Shelter
3
Covenant Cupboard Food Pantry

Address the food insecurity needs in our community

Food & Nutrition
4
Stowe Mission of Central Ohio

Christ-focused ministry to inner city residents in central Ohio.

Community Improvement
5
Bread of Life Community Services
Food & Nutrition
6
Harvest of Hope Food Pantry Inc

Food Pantry

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7
Christs Food Center Inc

Provide emergency food to families experiencing disaster and assist low income seniors, disabled and veterans in monthly food needs

Food & Nutrition
8
Louisville Community Food Pantry Inc

The Louisville Community Food Pantry, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing supplemental groceries to families and individuals in Jefferson County who are in need. We provide food in a way that supports and sustains the dignity of…

Food & Nutrition
9
Community Sharing Christian Center Inc

Food Pantry.

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10
Helping Hands Ministry

Helping Hands Ministry has expanded the outreach service to distribute more than just food. The lunch consists of a meat, 2 vegetables, salad, bread, desert and drink.

Human Services
11
The Pantry at Hamilton Mill Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Caring Place of Cincinnati

Provide food and clothing to low-income families of the Cincinnati communities of Golf Manor, Kennedy Heights, Silverton and Pleasant Ridge. We also provide senior citizen in our community with access to a social worker to assist them in…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul Council; the most unlike its peers is Tikkun Farm Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 56 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/34
Grantees still filing
18/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FG-HOPE INC: $17,804,100 · Food & NutritionFG-HOPE INC+2 more: $25,811 · Food & NutritionTHE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION: $7,630,000 · Human ServicesTHE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION+15 more: $331,870 · Human ServicesQUEEN MOTHER'S MARKET COOPERATIVE: $298,750 · OtherInter Parish Ministry Inc: $89,165 · OtherMONARCH GLOBAL MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC: $68,750 · OtherHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $48,067 · Other+26 more: $241,881 · OtherYour Store of the Queen City: $98,020 · Community ImprovementTIKKUN FARM INC: $10,880 · Community ImprovementCommunity Economic Advancement Initiative Inc: $82,867 · Crime & LegalCAIN CINCY: $18,109 · ReligionLINCOLN HEIGHTS OUTREACH INC: $7,199 · ReligionYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $8,756 · PhilanthropyXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $8,690 · Education
Food & Nutrition$17,829,911Human Services$7,961,870Other$746,613Community Improvement$108,900Crime & Legal$82,867Religion$25,308Philanthropy$8,756Education$8,690

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFG-HOPE INC: $17,804,100 over 1y, 99% of budgetTHE FREESTORE FOODBANK FOUNDATION: $7,630,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetYour Store of the Queen City: $98,020 over 2y, 18% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $89,165 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetISAIAH 55 INC: $83,750 over 2y, 13% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $42,459 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPOTTERS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $27,930 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetThe Healing Center: $23,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAIN CINCY: $18,109 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBE CONCERNED INC: $17,935 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetADVENTIST OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $16,400 over 1y, 40% of budgetDEARBORN COUNTY CLEARING HOUSE FOR EMERGENCY AID INC: $14,459 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSCIOTO CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $12,537 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTIKKUN FARM INC: $10,880 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLOVELAND INTER FAITH EFFORT INC LIFE FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE EMERGENCY PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHRIST'S COMMUNITY IN COLLEGE HILL: $9,650 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF PIKE COUNTY INC: $9,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS FOOD PANTRY: $9,411 over 1y, 12% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $8,756 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $8,690 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area: $7,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrighton Center Inc: $7,523 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PIKE COUNTY OUTREACH COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOPERATION GIVE BACK: $5,879 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Matthew 25 Ministries…United Way of Greater…The Greater Cincinnat…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Healthpath Foundation…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Johnson Charitable Gi…Peoples Bank Foundati…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Ruth J & Robert a Con…Millstone FundAndrew Jergens Founda…
Matthew 25 Ministries IncOH37.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Matthew 25 Ministries Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Peoples Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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 56 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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