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Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

$23M
Granted FY2018
5
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$144k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $322,465, the rows itemized in this filing. The $23,471,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,148,620 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 · 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
RecipientAmount
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
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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 (FY18–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gerridee's Place: $6k → 10%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
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
3
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

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5
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio

To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition
6
Five Loaves & Two Fish Food Pantry

The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.

Human Services
7
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
9
McKenzie County Food Pantry

The McKenzie County Food Pantry provides food and supplies to individuals and families in need. Through our efforts we strive to promote self-sufficiency and instill hope. We provide opportunities for volunteerism to community members.

Food & Nutrition
10
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
11
High Plains Food Bank

The High Plains Food Bank exists to help solve the issue of hunger and food insecurity in the Texas Panhandle.

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12
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Iowa Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Adams County 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.
03the grantee network

124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/124
Grantees still filing
83/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEEDING TEXAS: $143,552 · Community ImprovementFEEDING TEXASTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $72,660 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST …THE DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $6,247 · Human ServicesTHE DACOTAH FOUNDATIONFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $72,660 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'…PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $27,346 · OtherPRESBYTER…
Community Improvement$143,552Human Services$78,907Food & Nutrition$72,660Other$27,346

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $143,552 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $72,660 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $72,660 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DACOTAH FOUNDATION: $6,247 over 9y, 0.1% 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 FEEDING TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DACOTAH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

North Dakota Community FoundationND74.9× affinity41 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 · Otto Bremer Trust · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · The Barry Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay · Impact Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Feeding America · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Sanford Group Return

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 Great Plains Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Great Plains Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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 5 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 2018, released 2018. 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 $25M 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 FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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