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Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation at a glance

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Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation

Support activities and organizations that provide assistance to children, veterans and other individuals and groups in need.

$247k
Granted FY2021
14
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$1.6MFood & Nutrition$492kEducation$21kYouth Development$13kEmployment$5k
02FY2021 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $189,880, the rows itemized in this filing. The $247,480 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,600 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC$24,880
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$24,000
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC$21,000
FEEDING AMERICAN EASTERN WISCONSIN$18,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK INC$18,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$15,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$15,000
MID-OHIO FOODBANK$12,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$9,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOODBANK$9,000
FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND$6,000
HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK$6,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOODBANK$6,000
FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC$6,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
TN
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 3 repeat orgs$392k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +87% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+87%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Food & NutritionHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EI
    ELDERHEART INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $786k · revenue +174%
  • FH
    FRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $611k · revenue -5% · 40% of their budget
  • VA
    VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $327k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $189k · revenue +53%
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF DOWNERS GROVE DISTRICT 58graduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +803%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +62%
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
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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2
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi

Second harvest foodbank exists to end hunger in southwestern wisconsin.

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding America West Michigan

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.

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8
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding America

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Ozarks Food Harvest Inc

Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.

Food & Nutrition
12
San Francisco Food Bank

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION: $610,515 · HealthFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $189,162 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncELDERHEART INC: $785,664 · Arts & CultureELDERHEART INCVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $326,823 · Food & NutritionVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE …SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $24,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAN…FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $18,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $36,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $21,000 · OtherST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $18,000 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank: $12,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $6,000 · OtherEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF DOWNERS GROVE DISTRICT 58: $14,500 · EducationST CHARLES NORTH H S BOOSTERS CLUB: $6,250 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentSALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $5,000 · Human Services
Health$799,677Arts & Culture$785,664Food & Nutrition$434,823Other$57,000Education$20,750Youth Development$12,500Human Services$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELDERHEART INC: $785,664 over 4y, 16% of budgetFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION: $610,515 over 3y, 40% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $326,823 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $189,162 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CHARLES NORTH H S BOOSTERS CLUB: $6,250 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fresh Thyme Giving Tree Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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