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Friends of the World Food Program Inc

To inspire and mobilize people in the united states to support the mission of the u.n. World food programme to end hunger.

$94M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$272k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$204,099
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$83M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Friends of the World Food Program Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionInternationalPublic BenefitHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$272k33%
FY20242$30k0%
FY20238$175k38%
FY20224$68k25%
FY20213$133k33%
FY20202$25k0%
FY20197$135k71%
FY20172$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$583kInternational$192kPublic Benefit$32kEducation$26kHealth$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends of the World Food Program Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $204,099 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for US Global Leadership: $104,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetShare Our Strength: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance to End Hunger: $97,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Nations Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS Global Leadership Campaign: $60,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCongressional Hunger Center Inc: $56,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGlobal Child Nutrition Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe George Washington University: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Area Food Bank Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Hand Atlanta Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClarkston Community Health Center: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Gates FoundationWA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · 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.

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About Friends of the World Food Program Inc

How much does Friends of the World Food Program Inc give?
Friends of the World Food Program Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $271,599, out of $93,935,652 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Friends of the World Food Program Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (68%), International (22%), Public Benefit (4%).
Who are Friends of the World Food Program Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Los Angeles Regional Food Bank ($204k), Center for US Global Leadership ($104k), Share Our Strength ($100k).
Does Friends of the World Food Program Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Friends of the World Food Program Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Friends of the World Food Program Inc based?
Friends of the World Food Program Inc is based in DC.

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 14 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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