· Public charity
Share Our Strength
All children and families deserve to live free from hunger and poverty.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of SHARE OUR STRENGTH’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k195 grants · $3.9M
- $50k–250k65 grants · $5.8M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Public Human Services Assoc | $739,871 |
| Maryland - Department of Human Services | $600,000 |
| District of Columbia - Department of Human Services | $600,000 |
| Central Susquehanna IU 16 | $596,917 |
| Kentucky - Health and Family Services Cabinet | $578,100 |
| Wisconsin - Department of Public Instruction | $300,000 |
| School Based Health Alliance | $275,000 |
| Bonton Farms | $257,500 |
| San Francisco Human Services Agency | $250,000 |
| Meals4Families | $250,000 |
| Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance | $245,954 |
| Feeding Kentucky | $211,200 |
| Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | $205,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $172,150 |
| Arizona Food Bank Network | $165,000 |
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, $15.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
1067 repeat relationships — 201 still active in FY2025, 866 since wound down; 41 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +18%- AHARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +124%
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY7× · 2017–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +113%
Funded once
- WFWINDWARD FUND (URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE)one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue +55%
- NANATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $550k · revenue +15% · 36% of their budget
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.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Food service for the poor, economically disadvantaged, and elderly.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
Provide services in response to individual need
Cultivate an environment where our community can grow, contribute and thrive together. a more resilient brazos valley where nutritious food and opportunity are attainable for all.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Academies Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leroy Csd #1 Uw Ehw. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
886 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. 886 of the 2,000 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 AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds mRelief ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE MID SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL NUTRITION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds BONTON ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA IMPACT 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: GenYOUTH Incorporated · The George W Bush Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · Round It Up America Inc · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Food Research & Action Center · Justin J Watt Foundation Inc · North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc · Digital Promise Global · Save the Music 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 Share Our Strength 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.
- Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon — 31% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hispanic Unity of Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida 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.