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· Public charity
Great Plains Food Bank
Great Plains Food Bank is ND's largest hunger-relief Org.
$23M
Granted FY2018
5
Grants
4
Communities
$144k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $289k
$72,660
Median grant
4
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Feeding Texas$143,552
- Feeding Averica Kentucky's Heartland$72,660
- Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas$72,660
- Griggs County Bread of Life$27,346
- Gerridee's Place$6,247
02The need
02
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Food Bank of Northwest
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
Food & Nutrition
2
Food Bank of Iowa
We provide food for iowa children, families, and seniors to lead full and active lives, strengthening the communities where they live.
Food & Nutrition
3
Missoula Food Bank & Community Center
We lead the movement to end hunger through activism, volunteerism and healthy food for all. we nourish community.
Food & Nutrition
4
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central
To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.
Food & Nutrition
5
High Plains Food Bank
The High Plains Food Bank collects, warehouses and distributes donated/purchased food and products to over 160 other partner, non-profit organizations throught the panhandle.
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6
Coralville Community Food Pantry
The Coralville Community Food Pantry is an anti-hunger nonprofit organization providing critical and innovative food assistance services to the greater Coralville community.
Food & Nutrition
7
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc
Charitable food distribution.
Food & Nutrition
8
Butte Emergency Food Bank
Provide food for individuals in need
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9
Five Loaves & Two Fish Food Pantry
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
Human Services
10
Tarrant Area Food Bank
Tarrant area food bank empowers communities to alleviate hunger and improve health.
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11
Food for People Inc
Food for people is a designated food bank committed to providing food for those in need.
Food & Nutrition
12
Rainier Valley Food Bank
Distributing donated and purchased food to low-income households and homeless individuals.
Unclassified
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for the Heartland and the most unlike its peers is Mott Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%3/212
the rest of the field
11%
206,161/1,819,353
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
03the grantee network
122 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/122
Grantees still filing
91/122
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$143,552Human Services$78,907Food & Nutrition$72,660Other$27,346
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.
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.
North Dakota Community FoundationND63.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Feeding America · United Way of Cass-Clay · Impact Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota
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 organisation Great Plains Food Bank 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 710810999 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Great Plains Food Bank?
Find your warmest path to Great Plains Food Bank through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines