· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| COMMON ROOT FARM | $20,000 |
| THE FARM AT OUR HOUSE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
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The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
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.
Food Equality Initiative fights for nutrition security and health equity for all.
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…
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.
Improving community health through local food access.
UGK Community First provides a consistent source of nutritious and healthy chef prepared meals to food insecure families who live in underserved communities as well as those who find themselves in food insecure situations due to…
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.
NourishMKE is the largest network of community food centers in Milwaukee. We provide encouraging spaces to select free quality foods, and explore nutrition and wellbeing. The foods are thoughtfully sourced to offer options and reduce…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD COUNCIL INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Manna Food Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Manna Food Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Afrithrive Inc: 41% of income from government
- The Upcounty Hub Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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