· Public charity
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc
Project bread integrates expertise earned through directly serving individuals, research, advocacy, and community engagement for a comprehensive approach that achieves large scale, sustainable impact to prevent hunger.
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 41 grants below total $450,686 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,209,382 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,758,696 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 $10k24 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PAULIST CENTERMISSIONARY SOCIETY | $33,373 |
| THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $23,448 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC | $20,590 |
| TOWN OF HUDSON | $20,000 |
| NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FOR PHILANTHROPIC | $20,000 |
| ROSLINDALE FOOD COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | $20,000 |
| REVERE ARABIC COMMUNITY | $17,000 |
| CITY OF WORCESTER | $15,500 |
| YMCA SOUTHCOAST | $15,035 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON | $14,000 |
| TRITON REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,000 |
| HOLYOKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,657 |
| THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT DBA FOOD FO | $11,486 |
| BROCKTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOOD SERVICES | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $402k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +76% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
106 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 17 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- REREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +150%
- MCMILL CITY GROWS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +104%
- NCNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION5× · 2018–2022 · $61k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METRO NORTH INCone grant, 2023 · $34k · revenue +20%
- QAQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue -28%
- EBEL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAMgraduated2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +75%
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.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.
Mass farmers markets partners wtih farmers, consumers, and communities to improve the health of individuals, strenghten community vitality, and enhance local farm viability through farmers markets.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access available food resources.
To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.
The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…
Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…
Loaves & fishes' mission is to provide nutritious food, in an atmosphere of kindness and respect, to individuals in need who reside in ayer, devens, dunstable, groton, harvard, littleton, and shirley, massachusetts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Building Audacity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 215 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METRO NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTIE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER 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: Health Resources in Action Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Community Initiatives
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 Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger 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.
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- Citizens for Citizens Inc — 41% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
- Holyoke Health Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Community Health Connections Inc — 32% of income from government
- Lynn Community Health Inc — 31% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Upham's Corner Health Committee Inc — 30% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
- Franklin County Community Development Corporation — 22% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc — 15% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Cape Cod Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community Service Care Inc — 10% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Friday Night Supper Program Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% 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.