How much does Means Database Inc give?

Means Database Inc reported 108 itemized grants totaling $113,534,540, out of $160,331,172 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

What does Means Database Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (73%), Education (10%), Human Services (8%).

Who are Means Database Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Farm Share Inc ($27M), Hands of Hope Illinois ($12M), El Pasoans Fighting Hunger ($7.9M).

Which funders back the same organizations as Means Database Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farmlink Project, Feed the Children Inc, Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc.

Where is Means Database Inc based?

Means Database Inc is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Means Database Inc

Organizations missionThrough our platform, we connect organizations with surplus food to communities in need, championing sustainability by diverting edible food away from landfills. All for free.

$160M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 108
Itemized grants FY2024: 1
Organizations funded FY2021

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Itemized, FY2024: $114M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $169,554
Largest grant, FY2024: $26,670,327
States reached, FY2024: 33
Total assets, FY2024: $832k

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$83MEducation$12MHuman Services$9.1MInternational$4.3MReligion$3.9MHousing & Shelter$846kRecreation & Sports$80kPhilanthropy$68kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Farm Share Inc	$26,670,327	2	12%
Hands of Hope Illinois	$11,771,179	2	n/a
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger	$7,864,514	1	3%
The Freedom Tour Inc	$6,873,943	2	n/a
Feed the Children Inc	$5,396,653	1	1%
World Emergency Relief	$4,276,058	2	21%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$3,430,387	2	9%
Rick Caywood Ministries	$3,026,718	2	78%
Arm Full of Help	$2,910,957	2	n/a
Belknap Ministries Inc	$2,894,259	2	9%

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All grantees of Means Database Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Farm Share Inc	$26,670,327	2	12%
Hands of Hope Illinois	$11,771,179	2	n/a
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger	$7,864,514	1	3%
The Freedom Tour Inc	$6,873,943	2	n/a
Feed the Children Inc	$5,396,653	1	1%
World Emergency Relief	$4,276,058	2	21%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$3,430,387	2	9%
Rick Caywood Ministries	$3,026,718	2	78%
Arm Full of Help	$2,910,957	2	n/a
Belknap Ministries Inc	$2,894,259	2	9%
Goodness Outreach Depot	$2,868,905	2	65%
Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc	$2,129,286	2	5%
Illinois Partners in Hope Nfp	$2,110,254	1	n/a
Feed America First of Tennessee	$1,951,973	2	7%
Food Forward Inc	$1,928,088	2	1%
Agape Distribution	$1,790,389	1	n/a
Mid-Ohio Foodbank	$1,760,016	2	1%
Restoration Bridge International Inc	$1,672,136	1	6%
JEE Foods	$1,538,158	2	n/a
Helping Hands Society of Los Angeles	$1,507,147	1	n/a
Sharing Excess	$1,211,948	2	2%
Milford Food Bank Inc	$1,021,116	2	n/a
Utah Food Bank	$959,808	2	1%
Food Bank of the Rockies	$954,410	1	1%
Monte Sion Center	$886,819	1	63%
Farmlink Project	$754,684	2	3%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc	$718,467	1	1%
Blessings of Hope	$663,610	1	n/a
An End to Ignorance Inc	$624,206	2	n/a
Operation Food Search Inc	$563,731	2	1%
Community Food Share Inc	$556,326	1	2%
Volunteers for Public Service Inc	$540,052	2	11%
Alameda County Community Food Bank	$509,600	2	0%
River City Church of Boise	$477,502	2	n/a
Community Action Services and Food Bank	$476,933	2	4%
The Food Depot	$460,690	2	2%
Forgotten Harvest Inc	$417,908	1	0%
Move for Hunger Inc	$409,622	2	1%
Pallets of Love	$399,205	1	n/a
Epic Cure Inc	$395,970	2	2%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc	$395,058	1	0%
Table to Table Inc	$330,213	2	1%
Harvest Against Hunger	$328,188	2	5%
California Emergency Foodlink	$306,857	2	4%
The Society of St Andrew Inc	$268,401	2	1%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse	$248,411	1	0%
Hungry for Christ	$237,484	2	2%
The Conscious Alliance	$233,514	1	1%
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$211,184	2	0%
Loaves & Fishes Community Services	$184,689	2	1%
Second Harvest Inland Northwest	$173,724	1	0%
The Salvation Army	$169,554	2	n/a
Madera County Food Bank	$164,442	1	6%
Emergency Food Bank	$132,323	2	1%
St Anne's Center	$132,155	1	4%
Western Eagle Foundation	$125,477	1	2%
Birch Community Services Inc	$110,113	2	0%
Trybe Inc	$103,683	2	3%
Compassion Coalition Inc	$101,646	2	0%
Garden of Health Inc	$92,590	2	2%
Community Action Partnership of Orange County	$90,967	2	0%
One More Child Inc	$84,830	2	n/a
Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc	$83,481	2	1%
Storehouse Inc	$83,112	1	n/a
Mountaineer Food Bank Inc	$83,112	1	0%
Mel Trotter Ministries	$83,112	1	0%
Hopi Relief	$82,346	2	53%
Cowtown Marathon Inc	$79,623	1	3%
Morningstar Mission Ministries	$78,865	1	n/a
St Matthews House Inc	$78,786	2	0%
First Fruits Farm Inc	$73,377	1	3%
Foodbank of Southern California	$71,824	2	0%
People Help Exchange Inc	$70,920	2	37%
Concho Valley Regional Food Bank	$70,920	1	5%
Gotham Food Pantry Inc	$67,670	2	1%
Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fund	$67,630	2	0%
Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County	$62,299	1	0%
Candid	$60,849	1	0%
The Supply Hive	$54,744	2	45%
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia	$54,187	1	0%
Food Connect Co	$52,863	2	2%
Billings Food Bank Inc	$50,073	2	0%
Share Food Program	$48,785	2	0%
Paul's Pantry Inc	$44,806	2	0%
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc	$38,626	2	1%
Elisha Project	$38,137	2	1%
The River Food Pantry Inc	$30,669	2	0%
Impact46 Inc	$28,539	1	2%
St Joseph Food Program Inc	$28,110	2	0%
Oregon Food Bank	$26,654	1	0%
Food Bank of Lincoln Inc	$22,157	1	0%
Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc	$20,151	1	0%
Kings Community Action Organization Inc	$17,695	2	0%
North Country Food Bank Inc	$15,949	1	0%
Fondy Food Pantry	$15,569	1	1%
Willow Creek Community Church Inc	$14,377	2	n/a
The Midnight Mission	$11,954	1	0%
Good News Dallas First Church	$11,578	1	n/a
Humble Impressions Inc	$11,050	1	2%
Cache Community Food Pantry Inc	$10,343	1	0%
Tu Lider Inc	$10,194	1	n/a
Community Missions of the Niagara Frontier Inc	$10,094	1	0%
Loaves and Fishes	$9,716	1	1%
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank	$9,048	1	0%
Food Bank for the Heartland	$8,250	1	0%
Opencollective Foundation	$7,297	2	0%

Means Database Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 87.

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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 ProjectCA65.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Means Database Inc

How much does Means Database Inc give?: Means Database Inc reported 108 itemized grants totaling $113,534,540, out of $160,331,172 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Means Database Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (73%), Education (10%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Means Database Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Farm Share Inc ($27M), Hands of Hope Illinois ($12M), El Pasoans Fighting Hunger ($7.9M).
Which funders back the same organizations as Means Database Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farmlink Project, Feed the Children Inc, Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc.
Where is Means Database Inc based?: Means Database Inc is based in DC.