· Public charity
Manna Food Bank Inc
Mission: to involve, educate, and unite people in the work of ending hunger in western north carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 51 grants below total $1,985,785 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,890,513 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,904,728 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $702k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOE RIVER AGGREGATION CENTER TRAINI | $65,000 |
| ELIZABETH SELF | $50,000 |
| MITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERD'S STAFF FO | $50,000 |
| WNC FROM THE GROUND UP | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| DARNELL FARMS LLC | $50,000 |
| LINDA SHELL DBA TATER HILL FARM | $50,000 |
| TOE RIVER AGGREGATION CENTER TRAINI | $50,000 |
| ADAM MCCURRY DBA ROCKY HOLLOW FARM | $50,000 |
| FLAVOR FULL FARMS INC | $50,000 |
| RESTORATION HOUSE WNC | $50,000 |
| BOUNTY & SOUL | $50,000 |
| HARRELL HILL FARMS | $50,000 |
| GEORGETOWN BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| NICOLE DELCOGLIANO DBA GREEN TOE GR | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +93% since the first grant, against +90% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +43%
- BIBIG IVY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +928%
- BOBeacon of Hope Services Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +214%
Funded once
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCgraduated7× · 2017–2023 · $824k · revenue +86%- ACABCCM - CRISIS MINISTRY7× · 2017–2025 · $5k
- BABOUNTY AND SOUL FRESH MARKET7× · 2017–2023 · $4k
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.
Food distribution to the needy
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
To distribute emergency food assistance to individuals and families in the greenville area, and to cooperate with partnering agencies so that recipients have access to the greatest number of nutritional resources.
Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard serves the hungry in the Wilmington area through distribution of emergency food. This service is provided without discrimination by volunteers in collarboration with community organizations and businesses with…
The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
Provide food and supplies for the low income and needy
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western North Carolina Community Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wolf Creek Academy. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 155 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.
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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST STATE CENVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BIG IVY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds Beacon of Hope Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Table Inc ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF ↗
- Who funds Hola Carolina ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION HOUSE WNC ↗
- Who funds Hunger Coalition of Transylvania Co ↗
- Who funds Pigeon Community Development Center ↗
- Who funds FINES CREEK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Recovery Ventures Corporation ↗
- Who funds Cornbread & Roses Community Counseling Inc ↗
- Who funds Haywood Pathways Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SALUDA POP-UP PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT CAUSE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Bountiful Cities Project ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Pisgah Health Foundation · Impact Health · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Nantahala Health Foundation · Mission Hospital Inc · Henderson County United Way Inc
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 Manna Food Bank Inc 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.
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.