· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 84 grants below total $2,618,364 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,017,798 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,399,434 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK | $175,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $175,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $125,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SE MI | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY INC | $100,000 |
| POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN | $60,000 |
| HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION | $55,000 |
| THE FILM COLLABRATIVE INC | $50,000 |
| MOVE FOR HUNGER | $50,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $738k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $933k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Feeding America4× · 2021–2024 · $865k · revenue +23%- ELEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +28%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $295k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- AEAN END TO IGNORANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue ×480
- FFFARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -34%
- RGROCKET GIVING FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
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…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
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 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…
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…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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…
To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. 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.
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 33 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
135 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds AN END TO IGNORANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKET GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds REFED INC ↗
- Who funds WAREHOUSES4GOOD ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE ↗
- Who funds Reborn Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAHUARITA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds FEED AMERICA FIRST OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
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.
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
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 Lineage Foundation for Good 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.
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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