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Montgomery County Food Council Inc

Mcfc builds an equitable, resilient and sustainable local food system through collaboration, transformation, and cultivation.mcfc envisions a vibrant and equitable food system that is healthy for our community, economy, and environment.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $98,983, the rows itemized in this filing. The $113,073 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,090 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
$11,483
Median grant
2
States reached
$474k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION$40,000
APPALACHIAN FARM & FOOD ALLIANCE INC$20,000
HOLY CROSS HEALTH INC$11,483
EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER$10,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC$10,000
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
03the grantee network

6 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATIONAPPALACHIAN FARM AND FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 · EducationAPPALACHIAN FARM AND FOOD ALLIANCE…EASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationEASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CEN…HOLY CROSS HEALTH INC: $11,483 · OtherHOLY CROSS HE…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNI…ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$40,000Education$30,000Other$11,483Philanthropy$10,000Food & Nutrition$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOLY CROSS HEALTH INC: $11,483 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Montgomery County Food Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Montgomery County Food Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 79%
  • Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center Inc: 79% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Montgomery County Food Council Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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