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Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
128
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 128 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k71 grants · $277k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $637k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $672k
$5,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$80k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN ASPIRES INC$116,600
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$100,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$90,000
AUSTIN AREA ARTWORKS CENTER$80,556
LIFEGATE SERVICES$75,000
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORP$60,155
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREAT DES MOINES$50,000
WORLD FOOD PRIZE$50,000
AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$40,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FUND$30,400
NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION$25,000
NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING$25,000
LAUSD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
BE STRONG$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 12%PELICAN RAPIDS FOOD SHELF: $10k → 9%MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NY: $10k → 13%HOLLABACK INC: $10k → 20%YWCA OF CLINTON IA: $5k → 13%Barron Area Clergy Assoc Inc: $10k → 13%HEAVEN SOUTH INC: $10k → 14%LAS ANIMAS HELPING HANDS: $5k → 27%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC: $10k → 8%KAITLYN'S KLOSET: $10k → 6%KANDIYOHI COUNTY AREA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 9%LIFEGATE SERVICES: $75k → 9%MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%FeedMore Foundation of Western NY: $5k → 13%DEERFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%LAS ANIMAS HELPING HANDS: $5k → 27%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%PROJECT I AM NFP: $5k → 14%NEST4US: $10k → 4%PELICAN RAPIDS FOOD SHELF: $10k → 9%MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%POWER ATLANTA INC: $10k → 13%LAS ANIMAS HELPING HANDS: $5k → 27%PROJECT I AM NFP: $5k → 14%PELICAN RAPIDS FOOD SHELF: $10k → 9%MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%Caritas Inc: $7k → 10%PELICAN RAPIDS FOOD SHELF: $10k → 9%MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%PELICAN RAPIDS FOOD SHELF: $10k → 9%Melrose Area Food Shelf: $10k → 11%SLICE OUT HUNGER INC: $20k → 17%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $10k → 13%SLICE OUT HUNGER INC: $10k → 17%Slice Out Hunger Inc: $10k → 17%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $10k → 14%NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING: $25k → 11%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $25k → 14%NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING: $25k → 11%NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $9k → 14%NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING: $10k → 11%PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.1M · 146 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

146 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
194

Total granted

$9.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+12%

Still filing today

68%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $610k · revenue +34%
  • AA
    AUSTIN ASPIRES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $465k · revenue +38%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $407k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GI
    GenYOUTH Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • MS
    MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $34k · revenue +49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

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
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
4
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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8
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
9
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Mill City Farmers Market Inc

Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…

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11
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
12
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridge-to-Africa Connection Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Youth Development CentersImmigrant Worker SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…United Way AffiliatesAnimal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Developm…Military Veterans SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Ymca Youth DevelopmentVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Food PantriesCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…School District FoundationsFood Banks and Pantries
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%2/278
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,287

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.

04the grantee network

243 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 243 of the 399 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
236/243
Grantees still filing
159/243
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOURCAUSE LLC — $1,887,714 · OtherYOURCAUSE LLC+117 more — $3,621,739 · Other+117 moreTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $404,600 · Food & NutritionTHE CONSCIOUS …Feeding America — $164,347 · Food & NutritionFeeding Americ…ARKANSAS FOODBANK — $62,500 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $60,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $55,000 · Food & NutritionKANDIYOHI COUNTY FOOD SHELF — $50,000 · Food & NutritionKOSSUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+21 more — $509,372 · Food & Nutrition+21 moreNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $610,487 · EducationNational Meri…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $406,764 · EducationIOWA STATE UN…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $83,333 · EducationUNITED NEGRO …HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $50,000 · Education+7 more — $147,000 · Education+7 moreCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…UNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC — $155,616 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC — $127,500 · PhilanthropyTHE THIEL…World Food Prize Foundation — $125,000 · PhilanthropyWorld Foo…GenYOUTH Incorporated — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGenYOUTH …THE AUSTIN AREA COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS INC — $48,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN AREA FOUNDATION — $34,800 · PhilanthropyFARIBAULT FOUNDATION INC — $34,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $30,000 · PhilanthropyLIFEGATE SERVICES — $75,000 · Human ServicesNEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING — $70,000 · Human ServicesMELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF — $60,000 · Human ServicesPELICAN RAPIDS FOOD SHELF — $50,000 · Human ServicesLa Familia Counseling Center Inc — $45,000 · Human ServicesSlice Out Hunger Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $33,638 · Human ServicesJOSHUAS HEART FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesKANDIYOHI COUNTY AREA FAMILY YMCA — $25,000 · Human ServicesMARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLAS ANIMAS HELPING HANDS — $22,500 · Human Services+15 more — $186,600 · Human ServicesAUSTIN ASPIRES INC — $464,967 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $21,334 · Community Improvement+1 more — $12,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $128,000 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $13,762 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $18,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,509,453Food & Nutrition$1,355,819Education$1,297,584Philanthropy$904,916Human Services$657,738Community Improvement$498,301Recreation & Sports$309,762

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $610,487 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN ASPIRES INC — $464,967 over 5y, 22% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $406,764 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $404,600 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $164,347 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC — $155,616 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE — $152,994 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $132,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $128,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC — $127,500 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation — $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGenYOUTH Incorporated — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNational FFA Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FUND — $88,373 over 3y, 10% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA — $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $83,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEGATE SERVICES — $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING — $70,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK — $62,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOULEECAP INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF — $60,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE MINISTRIES INC — $60,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCHAD GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $57,600 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHOT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $55,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKANDIYOHI COUNTY FOOD SHELF — $50,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetKOSSUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC — $50,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPELICAN RAPIDS FOOD SHELF — $50,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE AUSTIN AREA COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS INC — $48,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAustin Enhancement Group — $45,750 over 3y, 23% of budgetROCHELLE CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY — $45,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetLa Familia Counseling Center Inc — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIND THE CAUSE INC — $45,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLong Prairie Emergency Food Pantry — $44,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetCHANNEL ONE INC — $42,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSlice Out Hunger Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD — $40,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetNeighborGood Community Pantry — $40,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budget
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.

  • Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN ASPIRES INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GenYOUTH Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEGATE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY HEALING ↗
  • Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
  • Who funds COULEECAP INC ↗
  • Who funds MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAD GREENWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds KANDIYOHI COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗

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.

United Way of Mower C…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Rochester Area Founda…Geo A Hormel Testamen…C K Blandin FoundationMayo Clinic Group Ret…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Hunger Solutions Minn…Alliant Energy Founda…Mayo Clinic
United Way of Mower County IncMN38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Mower County Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Rochester Area Foundation · Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust · C K Blandin Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic

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 organization Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • National Association of the Deaf — 58% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • V for Victory of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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: 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 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 399 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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