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Salad and Go Charities

provide nutritious food to food insecure communities

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 35 grants below total $244,356 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $299,898 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,542 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 $10k34 grants · $234k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,104
Median grant
3
States reached
$289k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Helping Hands of Vegas Valley$10,160
New Beginnings Community Outreach Corporation$8,770
We the People$8,770
Metroport Meals on Wheels$8,770
Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services Inc ECHOS$8,770
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Tarrant County$8,770
Cindy Ramsey Center$8,770
6 Stones Mission Network$8,770
The Chocolate Mint Foundation$8,770
Heart of the City Lweisville$8,770
Wise County Committee on aging Inc$8,770
Chicanos por la causa$6,104
Cancer Support Community Arizona$6,104
Advance Community$6,104
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona$6,104
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wise County Committee on aging Inc: $9k → 8%Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services Inc ECHOS: $9k → 16%Helping Hands of Vegas Valley: $10k → 13%Heart of the City Lweisville: $9k → 8%6 Stones Mission Network: $9k → 11%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $6k → 11%Chicanos por la causa: $6k → 11%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona: $6k → 11%Jewish Family and Childrens Service: $6k → 11%FSL Programs Foundation for Senior Living: $6k → 11%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
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Nourishphx

Nourishphx (fka icm food & clothing bank) is the trusted community hub serving vulnerable individuals and families by offering resources to satisfy immediate needs and to provide pathways to self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
Community Food Bank Inc

To ensure our communities are healthy and hunger-free today, tomorrow, and always.

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
7
Justa Center Inc

A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.

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8
Pima Council on Aging

Our mission is to promote dignity and respect for aging, and to advocate for independence in the lives of Pima County's older adults and their families, now and for generations to come.

Human Services
9
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
10
Interfaith Community Services

Interfaith Community Services' mission is to provide pathways leading to more stable and self-sufficient lives.

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11
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
12
Paz De Cristo Community Center

To feed, clothe and empower those struggling with hunger, poverty homelessness in the city of Mesa, Arizona area, by serving over 70,000 hot evening meals per year. (Continued on Schedule O, Statement 2)

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Community and the most unlike its peers is Wise County Committee On Aging Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%9%<5yr17%13%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr12%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%11%<5yr17%14%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr9%24%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
17%
7,655/44,990

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.

03the grantee network

32 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 35 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
12/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY — $10,160 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY6 STONES MISSION NETWORK — $8,770 · Human Services6 STONES MISSION NETWORKEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES — $8,770 · Human ServicesEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERV…NEW BEGINNINGS COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORPORATION — $8,770 · Human ServicesNEW BEGINNINGS COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORPO…WISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC — $8,770 · Human ServicesWISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INCHEART OF THE CITY — $8,770 · Human ServicesHEART OF THE CITYRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA — $6,104 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENT…FSL PROGRAMS — $6,104 · Human ServicesFSL PROGRAMSValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $6,104 · Human ServicesValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $6,104 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE IN…CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC — $6,104 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLCMETROPORT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $8,770 · OtherMETROPORT MEALS ON WHEELS INCWE THE PEOPLE — $8,770 · OtherWE THE PEOPLEMidwest Food Bank — $6,104 · OtherMidwest Food BankBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $6,104 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $6,104 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFoothills Food Bank — $6,104 · OtherFoothills Food BankFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC — $6,104 · OtherFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZ…THE ARIZONA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $6,104 · OtherTHE ARIZONA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND…ADVANCE COMMUNITY — $6,104 · OtherADVANCE COMMUNITYCancer Support Community Arizona — $6,104 · OtherCancer Support Community ArizonaNew Pathways For Youth — $6,104 · OtherNew Pathways For YouthCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,104 · OtherCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHelp Out Center Inc — $8,770 · Food & NutritionHelp Out Center…HEALTHY BISBEE INC — $6,104 · Food & NutritionHEALTHY BISBEE …TUCSON FAMILY FOOD PROJECT INC — $6,104 · Food & NutritionTUCSON FAMILY F…Brighter Bites Inc — $6,104 · Food & NutritionBrighter Bites …ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $6,104 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD …CHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION — $8,770 · Youth DevelopmentCHOCOLATE …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $8,770 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC — $6,104 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $6,104 · ReligionNeighborhood Ministries Inc — $6,104 · ReligionTempe Community Action Agency Inc — $6,104 · Community Improvement1N10 INC — $6,104 · Civil Rights
Human Services$84,530Other$78,580Food & Nutrition$33,186Youth Development$23,644Religion$12,208Community Improvement$6,104Civil Rights$6,104

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 budgetMETROPORT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $8,770 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES — $8,770 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHelp Out Center Inc — $8,770 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC — $8,770 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY — $8,770 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHY BISBEE INC — $6,104 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc — $6,104 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY — $6,104 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $6,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON FAMILY FOOD PROJECT INC — $6,104 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC — $6,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC — $6,104 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFSL PROGRAMS — $6,104 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth — $6,104 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC — $6,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARIZONA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $6,104 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $6,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,104 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…Arizona Community Fou…BHHS Legacy FoundationValley of the Sun Uni…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Arizona Food Bank Net…St Mary's Food Bank A…The Board of VisitorsThe Diane and Bruce H…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…American Express Foun…
Thunderbirds CharitiesAZ23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Arizona Food Bank Network · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · The Board of Visitors · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation

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 Salad and Go Charities 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Salad and Go Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Salad and Go Charities 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 35 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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