· Public charity
Manna Food Center Inc
Manna food center, inc strives to end hunger in our community through education, advocacy, and food distribution to individuals and partner agencies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $300,753 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,571,130 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,270,377 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GAITHERSBURG HELP INC | $31,200 |
| SENECA CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $31,200 |
| ONE ACRE FARM | $28,433 |
| SANDY SPRING GARDENS LLC | $25,090 |
| GREENWAY FARMS LLC | $20,668 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,247 |
| CHIRANDU FARMS LLC | $20,247 |
| THE FARM AT OUR HOUSE | $20,000 |
| COMMON ROOT FARM | $20,000 |
| ISLAMIC CENTER OF MARYLAND | $16,650 |
| BELLA VITA FARM | $12,680 |
| SMALL THINGS MATTER | $12,500 |
| SAVAGE ACRES FARM | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY | $12,480 |
| DODO FARMS | $9,058 |
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, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +98% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- GHGAITHERSBURG HELP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $307k · revenue +98%
- NNNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $72k · revenue +162%
- AIAFRITHRIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- SWSO WHAT ELSE INCone grant, 2024 · $145k · revenue 0%
- CFCOMMUNITY FARMSHAREone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +19%
- HIHEALTHCARE INITIATIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -3%
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.
Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
Fighting food insecurity in our area by providing nutritious food and community support to our neighbors in need, as well as offering and linking our clients to wraparound resources that will enable them to build healthy and stable lives.
Food Equality Initiative fights for nutrition security and health equity for all.
To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.
The mission of our neighbors farm & pantry is to meet the hunger needs of our community by aquiring, growing, and distributing food and to provide education on nutrition and sustainable gardening.
The mission of Comfort Food Community is to fight rural hunger with innovative programming that expands access to healthy food and builds community partnerships for lasting change.
Improving community health through local food access.
We are a non-profit organization, primarily a food pantry, helping food-insecure individuals and families in the dc region by distributing fresh produce, shelf-stable foods, household cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene items.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Farmshare and the most unlike its peers is Healthcare Initiative Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 55 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 GAITHERSBURG HELP INC ↗
- Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMSHARE ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRITHRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Upcounty Hub Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Table Inc ↗
- Who funds The Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SMALL THINGS MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSLIM SENIOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Capital Area Food Bank Inc · Adventist Healthcare Inc · William S Abell Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Mead Family Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Impactassetsinc
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 Center 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Afrithrive Inc — 41% of income from government
- The Upcounty Hub Inc — 2% 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.