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Subway Cares Foundation Inc

The subway cares foundation fuels the potential of our youth by giving them greater access to nutritious food, affordable education, and opportunities to help them grow.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$625k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$800kFood & Nutrition$205kYouth Development$175kInternational$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEmployment$25k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $980,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,085,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
  • $250k+1 grant · $625k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP &$625,000
FEEDING AMERICA$80,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$75,000
THE FARMLINK PROJECT$50,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$50,000
IMENTOR$25,000
NUTS BOLTS AND THINGAMAJIGS$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IMENTOR: $25k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $50k → 14%FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA: $25k → 13%CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE: $25k → 12%INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP &: $625k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $100k → 13%NUTS BOLTS AND THINGAMAJIGS: $25k → 8%FEEDING AMERICA: $80k → 14%ACTION AGAINST HUNGER: $75k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $75k → 13%FEEDING AMERICA: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CT
CA
TN
DC
OK
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$430k · 3 repeat orgs$900k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$430k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
InternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +12%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +36%
  • Feeding America
    2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • AA
    ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +23%
  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +29%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition
3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
American Culinary Federation Inc

Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession

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5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
8
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
9
Foodcorps Inc

Together with communities, foodcorps serves to connect kids to healthy food in schools.

Food & Nutrition
10
Philabundance

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INC: $625,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INCCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…IMENTOR INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INCFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR…SPARKFORCE: $25,000 · EducationSPARKFORCEFeeding America: $105,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ame…FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOU…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $75,000 · InternationalACTION AGA…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…FARMLINK PROJECT: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$650,000Youth Development$200,000Education$175,000Food & Nutrition$130,000International$125,000Human Services$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKFORCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Subway Cares Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Subway Cares Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Subway Cares Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Subway Cares Foundation Inc 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.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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