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Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

$8.1M
Granted FY2023
Grants FY2023
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2023

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $8,056,546.

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Median grant
States reached
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Total assets
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.

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
Lonsdale Area Food Shelf Inc

Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .

Food & Nutrition
2
Heavens Table Food Shelf

Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn

Food & Nutrition
3
Hubbard County Food Shelf

Receive and dispense food to needy clients

4
Lake County Food Share Inc

Lake county food share inc is an organization whose purpose is to coordinate and to meet both supplemental and emergency food needs of families and individuals in lake county, oregon.

Food & Nutrition
5
Kandiyohi County Food Shelf

By utilizing and bringing together community resources the willmar area food shelf will provide food assistance to individuals and families. our goal is to insure no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Kettle Falls Community Chest

Food is collected through donations and purchases, then distributed on an as needed basis.

7
Hilltop Regional Kitchen

Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.

Food & Nutrition
8
Pipestone County Food Shelf Inc

To provide food to the needy and indigent people in pipestone county, minnesota and for purposes incident thereto.

Food & Nutrition
9
Meeker County Emergency Food Shelf

The Meeker County Emergency Food Shelf is a cooperative venture of community partners working to provide access to healthy food for those facing food insecurity. The food shelf provides a 3-5 day supply of food to those facing food…

Food & Nutrition
10
Wabasha Area Food Share Inc

Community Food Shelf offering free food to low income area residents

11
Meals From the Heart

Meals from the Heart is a nonprofit organization that brings people together to serve their neighbors through easy to execute, energized and fun meal packing events building relationships and strengthening communities while providing…

12
Big Lake Community Food Shelf Inc

Distribute food to those in need

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Country Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Backus Ab 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 35 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%2%<5yr9%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr18%29%35–55yr22%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%0%<5yr9%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr17%0%20–35yr18%0%35–55yr22%0%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
5%
92/1,727

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.

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.

Second Harvest NorthlandMN101.5× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Second Harvest Northland · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Power Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Communitygiving · Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless · Northland Foundation · Mardag Foundation · The Minneapolis 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Second Harvest North Central Food Bank?

Find your warmest path to Second Harvest North Central Food Bank 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— 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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