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SECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC
Second helpings atlanta "sha", is a non-profit food rescue organization whose mission is to reduce hunger and food waste in the metro atlanta area by rescuing surplus food and delivering it to partner agencies who feed the hungry every day.
$10M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
goodchristian
2020
bankpantrychristian
2021
episcopal churchbuford highwayimpacthousingneedypovertylives
2022
suppliesmajorhomelessnesschildrenhousingpovertyproblems
2023
housinghomelessnessuserspovertywellwellnessconnect
2024
holinessvincentianmeansmissionary baptisthousinghomelessnesspoverty
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
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: $10,329,187.
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Median grant
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States reached
$2.0M
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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Feeding the Homeless Project Inc
Feeding homeless individuals in Downtown Atlanta.
Food & Nutrition
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Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc
To support senior independence through meals, shelter, education, and community.
Human Services
3
Feeding Ga Families
Distribution of Food to the Community
Food & Nutrition
4
Hope Thru Soap Inc
Providing showers, clothing and a meal for the homeless population in and around atlanta.
Community Improvement
5
Area in Need Missionary House Inc
Feeding the homeless clothing the needy In order to bring love and hope back to the communities one area at a time
Human Services
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House of Mercy Incorporated
To provide clothing, food, and shelter to homeless and abandoned individuals and families.
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Life House Atlanta Inc
Human Services
8
United Community Ministries Inc
Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.
Human Services
9
Lift Up Atlanta Inc
To assist the homeless and the needy.
Human Services
10
Berean Outreach Ministry Inc
Berean outreach ministry center inc is a food pantry with other outreach services in the community. in 2021, we served over 3200 households in the metro atlanta area with food and other staples necessary to survive.
Human Services
11
Inner City Night Shelter Inc
A non-profit corporation that provides shelter for homeless men and women in savannah, ga.
Housing & Shelter
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People Help Exchange Inc
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
Public Safety & Disaster
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Community Ministries in and the most unlike its peers is Urban Recipe Inc. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 21 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%4/123
the rest of the field
18%
3,719/20,583
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.
Atlanta Community Food Bank IncGA85× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · AEC Trust · Atlanta Braves Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald 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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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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