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Hunger Free America Inc

Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$1.7MHuman Services$434kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEducation$100kPublic Benefit$46kEnvironment$44kYouth Development$30kCommunity Improvement$18k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $45,884, the rows itemized in this filing. The $48,384 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,500 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.
$35,884
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNGER SOLUTIONS OF NY$35,884
CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION CHENANGO COUNTY$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $530k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IDAHO HUNGER RELIEF TASK FORCE: $10k → 8%OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 11%HOUR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $6k → 20%NTX COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $30k → 8%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $60k → 14%KID'S MEALS INC: $80k → 16%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $100k → 14%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL EXETER INC: $5k → 5%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH FOOD & ENERGY ASSISTANCE: $8k → 11%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $6k → 20%HEART OF THE CITY: $119k → 8%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $50k → 14%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $20k → 14%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $8k → 14%HEART OF THE CITY: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$862k · 9 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
44

Total granted

$862k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +45%
  • BH
    BEYOND HUNGER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +130%
  • ET
    EMPOWERING THE MASSES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $138k · revenue +412% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • BF
    BOULDER FOOD RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +38%
  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    one grant, 2021 · $106k · revenue -60%
  • TF
    The Food Project Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement
6
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
7
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
11
Berkeley Food Network

The berkeley food network (bfn) works to expand food assistance services to food-insecure berkeley residents. bfn was founded in 2016 to help establish a foundation of good health from which all berkeley residents can pursue opportunity by…

Food & Nutrition
12
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Baylor University. 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

55 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
44/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $275,000 · Food & NutritionCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INCBEYOND HUNGER: $205,000 · Food & NutritionBEYOND HUNGERBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $150,000 · Food & NutritionBOULDER FOOD RESCUETHREE SQUARE: $106,388 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUAREThe Food Project Inc: $100,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Project IncFood Bank of Nevada County: $100,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Nevada CountyAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $55,749 · Food & NutritionARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionYOLO FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+12 more: $247,500 · Food & Nutrition+12 moreEMPOWERING THE MASSES: $137,500 · Human ServicesEMPOWERING THE MASSESHEART OF THE CITY: $128,500 · Human ServicesHEART OF THE CITYNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST COMPASS INCKIDS' MEALS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCNorth Dallas Food Pantry: $30,000 · Human ServicesNorth Dallas Food Pantry+6 more: $53,550 · Human Services+6 moreTHE SENIOR HUB INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE SENIOR HUB…ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $49,500 · OtherST PHILIPS SCH…A Place To Turn Inc: $45,000 · OtherA Place To Tur…THE SALVATION ARMY: $40,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CH…MARYLAND FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION: $16,230 · OtherBaker School District: $15,000 · OtherFrisco Student Fastpacs: $15,000 · OtherSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · OtherSTAR OF THE SE…+4 more: $37,746 · Other+4 moreHUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC: $50,000 · EducationLEAGUE FOR INNOVATION IN THE: $30,000 · EducationGranite Education Foundation: $20,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $14,441 · EducationMULTIPLIER: $61,986 · EnvironmentHEART OF THE CITY: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentREPAIR THE WORLD: $18,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY MATTERS: $11,000 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$1,339,637Human Services$529,550Other$305,976Education$114,441Environment$61,986Youth Development$42,000Community Improvement$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $275,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER: $205,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $150,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetEMPOWERING THE MASSES: $137,500 over 3y, 39% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY: $128,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $106,388 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFood Bank of Nevada County: $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $61,986 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $55,749 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE SENIOR HUB INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $49,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $42,616 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC: $35,884 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE FOR INNOVATION IN THE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorth Dallas Food Pantry: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOPEN ARMS FOOD PANTRY & RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGranite Education Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION: $16,230 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHigh Desert Food & Farm Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFrisco Student Fastpacs: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $14,441 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MATTERS: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO HUNGER RELIEF TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMANNA CONEJO VALLEY FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL JERSEY INC: $9,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8,550 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL EXETER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

The Albertsons Compan…Texas Instruments Fou…North Texas Food BankShare Our StrengthArthur J Gallagher Fo…Communities Foundatio…Edward Jones Foundati…McKesson Foundation I…Synchrony FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Albertsons Companies FoundationCA52.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · North Texas Food Bank · Share Our Strength · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Hunger Free America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunger Free America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • High Desert Food & Farm Alliance: 45% of income from government
  • Star of the Sea Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • United Way of Central Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 55 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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