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Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc

Golden harvest food bank, inc.'s mission is "feeding lives together."

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MHuman Services$133kReligion$128kHealth$29kEducation$22kYouth Development$18k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $374,766, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,260,749 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,885,983 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $355k
$28,675
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLIFFORD GROVE BAPTIST$40,000
MT OLIVE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$40,000
FOOD FOREVER FUND INC$40,000
FAMILY CONNECTIONS CIS - GLASCOCK$40,000
HANCOCK HELPING HANDS$37,073
UNITY OUTREACH CHURCH$33,663
NOAH'S ARK MBC$31,378
BRIDGES OF HOPE (ON-SITE)$28,675
GATEWAY CHRUCH$18,000
BROKEN SHACKLE RANCH (ON-SITE)$17,577
BLYTHE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$15,140
TRINITY CHURCH OF GOD MINISTRIES$13,860
PUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH$6,700
MCBEAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$6,500
DCCM$6,200
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 (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%PUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $7k → 13%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 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
Inman Methodist Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition
2
God Provides Ministry

To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others

Food & Nutrition
3
Christian Faith Ministry

Feeding the hungry

Human Services
4
Community for Christ Outreach

Religious Orginazation

Housing & Shelter
5
Paul Mitchell Ministries

To provide food and ministry services

Food & Nutrition
6
Eben-Ezer Ministries Corp
Religion
7
Church Women United

Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…

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8
Grace Farm Ministries Inc

Provide fresh food to low income people

Food & Nutrition
9
Our Daily Bread Christian Food Ministry Inc

The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.

Human Services
10
Grace Resource Center Inc

To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.

Housing & Shelter
11
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…

Religion
12
Reachout Ministry of Hope By a New and Living

Church religious services. to inspire life to people through spreading the gospel.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holding Forth the Word of Life Inc; the most unlike its peers is Folks Feeding Folks. 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

72 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/72
Grantees still filing
48/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD FOREVER FUND INC: $1,340,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOREVER FUND INCCHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INC: $40,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE NAZAR…CLIFFORD BAPTIST CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherCLIFFORD BAPTIST CH…HANCOCK HELPING HAND CRISIS RELIEF CENTER: $37,073 · OtherHANCOCK HELPING HAN…INTERNATIONAL PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH INC: $33,663 · OtherINTERNATIONAL PENTE…NOAHS ARK ATLANTA INC: $31,378 · OtherNOAHS ARK ATLANTA I…BRIDGES OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $28,675 · OtherBRIDGES OF HOPE CHA…THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: $18,000 · OtherTHE GENERAL COUNCIL…BROKEN SHACKLE RANCH INC: $17,577 · OtherBROKEN SHACKLE RANC…BLYTHE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $15,140 · OtherBLYTHE ELEMENTARY S…TRINITY CHURCH OF GOD MINISTRIES: $13,860 · Other+1 more: $6,500 · OtherFAMILY CONNECTION & COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $40,000 · EducationPUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC: $6,700 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN COOPERATIVE CHURCH MINISTRIES INC: $6,200 · Religion
Food & Nutrition$1,340,000Other$281,866Education$40,000Human Services$6,700Religion$6,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD FOREVER FUND INC: $1,340,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION & COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $40,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $28,675 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetBROKEN SHACKLE RANCH INC: $17,577 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC: $6,700 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN COOPERATIVE CHURCH MINISTRIES INC: $6,200 over 6y, 5.2% 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.

  • Who funds FOOD FOREVER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION & COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BROKEN SHACKLE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN COOPERATIVE CHURCH MINISTRIES INC ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area IncGA45.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · University Health Services Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Jefferson Energy Cooperative Foundation Inc · Lowcountry Food Bank Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · United Way of Aiken County Inc · The Webbcraft Family Foundation Inc · Abney 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 Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden Harvest Food Bank 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $31M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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