· Private foundation
Spartannash Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k111 grants · $428k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| E4E RELIEF | $52,941 |
| BRAT FEST | $40,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $28,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $23,850 |
| SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK | $21,050 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $18,000 |
| FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA | $15,975 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $15,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $14,686 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $14,200 |
| FENTON AREA RESOURCES & REFERRAL NETWORK | $13,875 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SO WISC | $13,625 |
| PROJECT HOPE INC | $13,291 |
| FEEDING THE VALLEY INC | $10,000 |
| ROOTED WI INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $812k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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 +26% for the ones you funded once.
224 repeat relationships — 120 still active in FY2024, 104 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +110%- HAHONOR AND REMEMBER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $835k · revenue +50% · 31% of their budget
- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC6× · 2018–2023 · $685k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREATone grant, 2023 · $76k
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +97%
- BIBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
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…
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
The mission of the cooperstown food pantry is to address issues of poverty and hunger in otsego county.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kalkaska Area Interfaith Resources. 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 39 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
194 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 194 of the 382 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR AND REMEMBER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA UNITED ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK 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: Feeding America West Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Frey Foundation · Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Dte Energy Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return
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 Spartannash 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Manna Food Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% 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.