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Mark Alan Sinclar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

International$35kHousing & Shelter$22kFood & Nutrition$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kYouth Development$3k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$254k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
EARTHLINKS INC$4,500
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF$3,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 16%FOOD BANK MONTEREY COUNTY: $2k → 12%GLOBAL GIVING: $5k → 14%FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $3k → 15%COMMUNITY TABLE: $3k → 7%EARTHLINKS INC: $5k → 12%WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF: $7k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA: $1k → 12%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $5k → 14%EARTHLINKS INC: $5k → 12%WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF: $7k → 14%EARTHLINKS INC: $5k → 12%WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF: $6k → 14%EARTHLINKS INC: $4k → 12%WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF: $5k → 14%EARTHLINKS INC: $4k → 12%WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF: $3k → 14%EARTH LINKS INC: $1k → 12%WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
3
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
4
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
8
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

9
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
10
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
11
World Hunger Relief Institute

World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.

International
12
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Lane County and the most unlike its peers is World Bicycle Relief Nfp. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFPEARTHLINKS INC — $21,500 · Community ImprovementEARTHLINKS INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING F…FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $3,000 · OtherFOOD BANK MONTEREY COUNTY — $2,000 · OtherTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE — $3,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Public Safety & Disaster$30,000Community Improvement$21,500International$9,500Other$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Arts & Culture$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC — $21,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mark Alan Sinclar Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Food for Lane County5% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mark Alan Sinclar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mark Alan Sinclar Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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