· Public charity
Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation
Support activities and organizations that provide assistance to children, veterans and other individuals and groups in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $189,880 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $247,480 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,600 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC | $24,880 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $24,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC | $21,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK INC | $18,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICAN EASTERN WISCONSIN | $18,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $15,000 |
| MID-OHIO FOODBANK | $12,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOODBANK | $9,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $9,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $6,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOODBANK | $6,000 |
| FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC | $6,000 |
| HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +87% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- EIELDERHEART INC4× · 2017–2020 · $786k · revenue +174%
- FHFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $611k · revenue -5% · 40% of their budget
- VAVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $327k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $189k · revenue +53%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF DOWNERS GROVE DISTRICT 58graduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +803%
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +62%
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 maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
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 of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
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…
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…
Second harvest foodbank exists to end hunger in southwestern wisconsin.
We gather and distribute food to relieve hunger and increase food security in west michigan and the upper peninsula. contributions and net assets consist primarily of donated food for distribution.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.
Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is St Charles North H S Boosters Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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.
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 ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF DOWNERS GROVE DISTRICT 58 ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ST CHARLES NORTH H S BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP ↗
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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation 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.
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