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Lineage Foundation for Good

Our mission is to reduce food waste and fight food insecurity by developing a dynamic, real-time and global link between those who commercially produce our food and the individuals, families and communities who need it most.

$8.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
84
Itemized grants FY2024
54
Organizations funded FY2023
76%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$2.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 54
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
25
Total assets, FY2024
$4.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 76% of the organizations Lineage Foundation for Good funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $709k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving83$2.5M58%
FY202354$1.8M76%
FY202226$1.4M92%
FY20212$125kn/a
100% 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$3.4MPhilanthropy$886kHousing & Shelter$427kHealth$290kEducation$242kHuman Services$173kYouth Development$160kCommunity Improvement$130kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
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FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Lineage Foundation for Good by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feeding America$865,00040%
Eat Learn Play Foundation$750,00031%
The Global FoodBanking Network$500,00041%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$295,00030%
The Empowerment Plan$275,00035%
American Cancer Society Inc$142,50030%
Move for Hunger Inc$135,00030%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$118,50620%
Cots$105,00031%
Points of Light Foundation$100,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$100,00020%
New York Common Pantry$100,00010%
An End to Ignorance Inc$90,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties$75,00020%
Girls Incorporated of Orange County$60,00031%
Heartland Hope Mission$55,00010%
Refed Inc$50,00010%
Farming for the Future Foundation$50,00011%
Rocket Giving Fund$50,00010%
Warehouses4good$50,000113%
United Against Poverty Inc$50,00020%
The Film Collaborative Inc$50,00010%
Foodlink Inc$46,00030%
Make Food Not Waste$45,00024%
Reborn Minds Inc$45,000321%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc$41,30020%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$40,00020%
Loyola High School Foundation$40,0001n/a
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia$36,00020%
Caring for Others Inc$35,29320%
Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc$35,00030%
Sahuarita Food Bank$35,00021%
Feed America First of Tennessee$35,00020%
BakerRipley$35,00020%
Feeding South Florida Inc$35,00030%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$31,00030%
Food Bank for the Heartland$30,50030%
Living & Learning Enrichment Center$30,00010%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$30,00030%
Dare to Care Inc$30,00020%
United Way for Southeastern Michigan$27,90720%
Behring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education Foundation$27,00031%
Birch Community Services Inc$25,00010%
Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Center on Halsted$25,00010%
Give Merit Inc$25,00011%
A Friends House Inc$25,00011%
Team Chad$25,00014%
Boardman Community Development Association$25,00012%
Food in Need of Distribution Inc$25,00020%
Folds of Honor Foundation$25,00010%
New School for Child Development$25,00010%
Oakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club$25,00012%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$25,00030%
Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland$25,00010%
Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy$21,50012%
Backpack Brigade$20,00012%
Nourishing Hope$20,00010%
Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc$20,00020%
Food Lifeline$20,00020%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$20,00020%
Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc$20,00010%
4DWN Project Inc$20,00014%
Community Action Partnership of Orange County$20,00020%
The Gray House Inc$16,00022%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$15,00010%
Table to Table Food Distribution Network$15,00010%
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties$15,00020%
La Colaborativa Inc$15,00010%
Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House$15,00020%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$15,00010%
Steppenwolf Theatre Company$15,00010%
Hispanic Scholarship Fund$15,00010%
The Abana Foundation Inc$15,00013%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$15,00010%
Operation Frontline Warriors Foundation$12,500116%
Casas Por Cristo$12,00010%
United Food Force Inc$10,00020%
Seva Truck Richmond Foundation$10,00018%
Second Harvest Inland Northwest$10,00010%
Open Door Mission Inc$10,0001n/a
Taunton Area Community Table Inc$10,0001n/a
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc$10,00010%
Hispanic Federation Inc$10,00010%
The Houston Food Bank$10,00010%
St Vinnys Bistro$10,00011%
Feeding the Gulf Coast$10,00010%
San Francisco Food Bank$10,00020%
Starfish Project Foundation$10,00010%
Inspiration Corporation$10,00010%
Food Share Inc$10,00010%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$10,00010%
Hot Lunch Service$10,00015%
Food Rescue US Inc$10,00010%
Hope Station Community Services In$10,00011%
Caterinas Club$10,00010%
Pope Francis Center$10,00010%
The Catholic Charities Food Bank of the Southern Tier$10,0001n/a
Food Forward Inc$10,00010%
White Memorial Med Cntr Charitable Fdtn Adventist Health White Memorial Ch Fdtn$10,00010%
Food Recovery Network Inc$10,00011%
White Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial$10,00010%
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County$10,00010%
Feeding the Valley Inc$10,00010%
Charity Navigator$8,00010%
Little Heroes League$8,00011%
Central Ohio Diversity Consortium$7,5001n/a
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank$7,50010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$7,50010%
Folds of Honor - Motor City Inc$7,00012%
Genesis Community Church$6,1641n/a
Nami - Virginia$6,00010%
Second Harvest Heartland$6,00020%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$5,00020%
Community Health Center of Buffalo Inc$4,39610%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lineage Foundation for Good supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $865,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEat Learn Play Foundation: $750,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $500,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $295,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Empowerment Plan: $275,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $142,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMove for Hunger Inc: $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan: $118,506 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCots: $105,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPoints of Light Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Common Pantry: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Orange County: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHeartland Hope Mission: $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRefed Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFarming for the Future Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRocket Giving Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWarehouses4good: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUnited Against Poverty Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Film Collaborative Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoodlink Inc: $46,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMake Food Not Waste: $45,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetReborn Minds Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetThe DC Central Kitchen Inc: $41,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Southeastern Virginia: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaring for Others Inc: $35,293 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSahuarita Food Bank: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFeed America First of Tennessee: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBakerRipley: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding South Florida Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for the Heartland: $30,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiving & Learning Enrichment Center: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDare to Care Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way for Southeastern Michigan: $27,907 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBehring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education Foundation: $27,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBirch Community Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Bills Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGive Merit Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA Friends House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTeam Chad: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBoardman Community Development Association: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFood in Need of Distribution Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 108.

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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.

Farmlink ProjectCA29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farmlink Project · Means Database Inc · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · Feeding America · The Kroger Co Foundation · Feed the Children Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · UNFI Foundation · The Society of St Andrew Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Carmax 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.

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Find your warmest path to Lineage Foundation for Good through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Lineage Foundation for Good

How much does Lineage Foundation for Good give?
Lineage Foundation for Good reported 84 itemized grants totaling $2,618,364, out of $8,017,798 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 54 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Lineage Foundation for Good fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (56%), Philanthropy (15%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are Lineage Foundation for Good's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Feeding America ($865k), Eat Learn Play Foundation ($750k), The Global FoodBanking Network ($500k).
Does Lineage Foundation for Good fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lineage Foundation for Good?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farmlink Project, Means Database Inc, The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation.
Where is Lineage Foundation for Good based?
Lineage Foundation for Good is based in MI.

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 116 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.

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