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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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $103,111 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $223,681 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $120,570 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KLAMATH-LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK | $12,981 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $12,463 |
| NOURISH PIERCE COUNTY | $9,596 |
| THURSTON CO FOOD BANK | $9,162 |
| BREMERTON FOOD LINE | $9,049 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $8,112 |
| MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE | $7,806 |
| HOPELINK BELLEVUE | $7,296 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $5,788 |
| CEDARWOOD INTERNATIONAL | $5,298 |
| FEDERAL WAY MSC | $5,216 |
| SKAGIT VALLEY FOOD BANK NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $5,181 |
| IDAHO FOOD BANK | $5,163 |
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 (FY17–20, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
OREGON FOOD BANK3× · 2017–2020 · $59k · revenue +70%
KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK3× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +49%- TCTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK3× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $8k
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +77%
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.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
The mission of yolo food bank is to make yolo county a thriving community where everyone has the resources they need to experience health, prosperity, and a high quality of life. Yolo Food bank durably increases food and nutrition security…
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Multi-Service Center. 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 43 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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
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 OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Bremerton Foodline ↗
- Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds AUBURN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORIMPACT ↗
- Who funds Yakima Rotary Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MULTI-SERVICE CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Smart Foodservice Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% 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.
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