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· Public charity
Sumner Community Food Bank
Charitable and education
$2.1M
Granted FY2020
2
Grants
1
Communities
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
fishdistrictharvest
2021
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2022
sustainablemeaningfulenvironmentalchristsouthequitableaccess nutritious
2023
tacomaseventh-day adventistgoodgracecovenant churchministriesword
2024
increasepersongoesministryskillsoutreachclothing
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2020 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Open Life Church$2,000
- Sumner Bonney Lake School District$380
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Snohomish Community Food Bank
To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need
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2
3G Food Pantry
Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
Food & Nutrition
3
Camas Prairie Food Bank Inc
Camas Prairie Food Bank Inc collects food and cash donations to purchase food which it then distributes to directly to the local population. The distribution center is open 2 days per week from 10AM to 2PM for those in need to stop by and…
Food & Nutrition
4
People Help Exchange Inc
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Sunshine for Humanity Inc
Homeless Shelter
Health
6
Nourish Pierce County
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
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7
Harvest House
Food Security
Human Services
8
Urban Bicycle Food Ministry
Human Services
9
F I S H of Orchards Inc
FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.
Food & Nutrition
10
Eat Happy Now
Eat Happy's mission revolves around rescuing perfectly healthy food that would otherwise be discarded and ending up in landfills.
Food & Nutrition
11
Feed Spokane
Secure available food for those in need. Creating an efficient sustainable partnership between food donors, meal providers and outreach workers.
Human Services
12
Heart of Putnam Food Pantry Inc
Providing food to those in need.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand House and the most unlike its peers is Step By Step Family Support Center. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
12%
1,925/16,516
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.
04the grantee network
25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2020–2020.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since you first funded
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.
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.
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Korum for Kids Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Food Lifeline · Woodworth Family Foundation · Multicare Health System · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · World Vision Inc · Rotary International · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero
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.
04Through Plinth
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Sumner Community Food Bank?
Find your warmest path to Sumner Community Food Bank through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines