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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 FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 84 grants below total $2,618,364, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,017,798 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,399,434 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION$100,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SE MI$100,000
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY INC$100,000
THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN$60,000
HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION$55,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$50,000
MOVE FOR HUNGER$50,000
THE FILM COLLABRATIVE INC$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES$50,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $15k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 12%WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $8k → 14%TABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $15k → 15%ROCKET GIVING FUND: $50k → 21%STARFISH PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 12%HOPE STATION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%ALSAC ST JUDE: $8k → 17%A FRIENDS HOUSE INC: $25k → 8%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 11%SEVATRUCK RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 12%WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION EVENT SPONSORSHIP: $9k → 9%BAKERRIPLEY: $10k → 16%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 21%UNITED FOOD FORCE INC: $10k → 8%CARING FOR OTHERS INC: $25k → 13%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $10k → 14%WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $9k → 9%BAKERRIPLEY: $25k → 16%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $150k → 21%CARING FOR OTHERS INC: $10k → 13%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $30k → 8%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $65k → 21%CENTER ON HALSTED: $25k → 14%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $60k → 21%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $55k → 12%CATERINA'S CLUB: $10k → 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.

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
TX
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 36 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
31

Total granted

$4.2M
$676k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $933k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • Feeding America
    4× · 2021–2024 · $865k · revenue +23%
  • EL
    EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +28%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $295k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AE
    AN END TO IGNORANCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue ×480
  • RI
    REFED INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • FF
    FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -34%
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.

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The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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2
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
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
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
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
8
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc

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 & Nutrition
9
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
Extrafood

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

135 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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)
134/135
Grantees still filing
88/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Feeding America: $865,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $295,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INCMOVE FOR HUNGER INC: $135,000 · Food & NutritionMOVE FOR HUNGER INCGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $118,506 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEAST…NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+31 more: $694,000 · Food & Nutrition+31 moreEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $750,000 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY F…POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPOINTS OF LIGHT …FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFARMING FOR THE …+1 more: $8,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $275,000 · Human ServicesTHE EMPOWERME…HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $55,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOP…ROCKET GIVING FUND: $50,000 · Human ServicesROCKET GIVING…CARING FOR OTHERS INC: $35,293 · Human ServicesBakerRipley: $35,000 · Human ServicesLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesBEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FORMERLY WORLD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Human ServicesBirch Community Services Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $25,000 · Human ServicesA FRIENDS HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Human Services+14 more: $155,500 · Human Services+14 moreThe Global FoodBanking Network: $500,000 · InternationalThe Global …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…AN END TO IGNORANCE INC: $90,000 · OtherAN END TO IGNORANC…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY: $60,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED…UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $41,300 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $40,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $35,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $75,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…Reborn Minds Inc: $45,000 · OtherCOTS: $105,000 · OtherCOTSTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 · Other+25 more: $401,071 · Other+25 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 · EducationLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · EducationDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $21,500 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $15,000 · EducationTHE ABANA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $7,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $142,500 · HealthTEAM CHAD: $25,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15,000 · HealthWhite Memorial Med Cntr Charitable Fdtn Adventist Health White Memorial Ch Fdtn: $10,000 · HealthWhite Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $4,396 · Health
Food & Nutrition$2,207,506Philanthropy$908,000Human Services$737,793International$600,000Other$992,371Education$398,500Health$221,896

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

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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.

Farmlink ProjectMeans Database IncThe Kroger Co Zero Hu…Feeding AmericaThe Kroger Co Foundat…Feed the Children IncThe Albertsons Compan…Enterprise Holdings F…UNFI FoundationThe Society of St And…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Carmax Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lineage Foundation for Good funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lineage Foundation for Good. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
45report 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.
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How do I get to Lineage Foundation for Good?

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.

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 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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