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Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to provide grants to organizations that are dedicated to general community charitable purposes, including food banks, youth sports organizations, programs for at-risk youth, health and nutrition programs, educational programs and institutions, community development activities, emergency and disaster…

$224k
Granted FY2020
13
Itemized grants FY2020
13
Organizations funded FY2020
8%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$103k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$7,806
Largest grant, FY2020
$12,981
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 8% of the organizations Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202013$103k8%
FY201918$141k44%
FY201717$138kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Food & Nutrition$307kHuman Services$46kReligion$20kInternational$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oregon Food Bank$58,92930%
Klamath Lake Counties Food Bank$31,50130%
Thurston County Food Bank$25,75330%
Bremerton Foodline$24,40931%
Marion-Polk Food Share Inc$21,72730%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse$20,46030%
Hopelink$19,19530%
Nourish Pierce County$16,70020%
Cityteam Ministries$15,61120%
The Salvation Army$15,2521n/a
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All grantees of Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oregon Food Bank$58,92930%
Klamath Lake Counties Food Bank$31,50130%
Thurston County Food Bank$25,75330%
Bremerton Foodline$24,40931%
Marion-Polk Food Share Inc$21,72730%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse$20,46030%
Hopelink$19,19530%
Nourish Pierce County$16,70020%
Cityteam Ministries$15,61120%
The Salvation Army$15,2521n/a
Food for Lane County$14,97720%
Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane$12,8362n/a
Alameda County Community Food Bank$11,86020%
Food Lifeline$10,88820%
Auburn Food Bank$10,64620%
Skagit Valley Food Bank Neighbors in Need$10,3852n/a
Food for Lane County$8,0101n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County$6,88310%
Second Harvest of the Greater Valley$6,50310%
Redwood Empire Food Bank$6,42110%
Neighborimpact$6,34210%
St Leo's Food Connection$5,5851n/a
Yakima Rotary Food Bank$5,43010%
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank$5,22010%
Multi-Service Center$5,21610%
St Leos Parish$5,0881n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Food Bank: $58,929 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKlamath Lake Counties Food Bank: $31,501 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThurston County Food Bank: $25,753 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBremerton Foodline: $24,409 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMarion-Polk Food Share Inc: $21,727 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho Foodbank Warehouse: $20,460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHopelink: $19,195 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $16,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCityteam Ministries: $15,611 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood for Lane County: $14,977 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda County Community Food Bank: $11,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Lifeline: $10,888 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAuburn Food Bank: $10,646 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County: $6,883 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest of the Greater Valley: $6,503 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRedwood Empire Food Bank: $6,421 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborimpact: $6,342 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYakima Rotary Food Bank: $5,430 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank: $5,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMulti-Service Center: $5,216 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Albertsons Compan…Northwest Harvest EmmEnterprise Holdings F…Food LifelineDutch Bros FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Employees Community F…Give Back FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Harvest Against Hunger
The Albertsons Companies FoundationCA24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Food Lifeline · Dutch Bros Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Give Back Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Harvest Against Hunger

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation 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.

About Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation

How much does Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation give?
Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $103,111, out of $223,681 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (81%), Human Services (12%), Religion (5%).
Who are Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Oregon Food Bank ($59k), Klamath Lake Counties Food Bank ($32k), Thurston County Food Bank ($26k).
Does Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Albertsons Companies Foundation, Northwest Harvest Emm, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
Where is Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation based?
Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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