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SUPERVALU Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$486k
Granted FY2019
53
Grants FY2019
19
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.

Food & Nutrition$1.6MHealth$324kHuman Services$295kYouth Development$199kHousing & Shelter$55kRecreation & Sports$45kInternational$30kCommunity Improvement$26kOther$0
02FY2019 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k30 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $386k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Capital Area Food Bank$60,000
Youth Farm$40,000
Open Arms$40,000
Food & Friends$27,000
The Food Group$25,000
Eastern Illinois Food Bank$20,000
Paul's Pantry$20,000
Moorhead Legacy Foundation$20,000
Aliveness Project$20,000
Illinois Valley Food Pantry$20,000
Urban Roots$16,500
Individual grant recipient$14,280
Central PA Food Bank$14,280
Second Harvest of the Big Bend$14,280
Feed More Community Kitchen$14,280
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tumbleweed: $15k → 9%Project Share of Carlisle: $5k → 12%Silver Key Senior Services: $20k → 9%Salt & Light: $20k → 19%An Achievable Dream: $20k → 17%Jannus: $350 → 8%Prepare & Prosper: $350 → 14%Operation Santa Claus: $350 → 11%Women & Children's Horizons: $15k → 10%Denver Rescue Mission: $15k → 12%Wilder Foundation: $30k → 14%Nurses for Newborns: $40k → 11%The Bridge for Youth: $50k → 11%YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities: $250 → 11%Angels' Arms: $250 → 11%Open Arms: $50k → 11%Open Arms: $40k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 21 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
93

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+66%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalOther

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

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $135k · revenue +80%
  • FF
    FOOD & FRIENDS INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $127k · revenue +139%
  • UR
    URBAN ROOTS MN
    2× · 2017–2019 · $93k · revenue +293%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital of the King's Daughtersgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +106%
  • VP
    VA Peninsula Foodbank
    one grant, 2017 · $70k
  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +13%

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

04Your 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
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
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Northern Illinois Food Bank

With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…

Food & Nutrition
4
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio

To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
6
The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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9
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
10
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
11
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
12
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twin Cities Polish Festival. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceYouth Sports Booster Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Animal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Missionary Organi…Ymca Community CentersGovernment Accountability R…Small Business Development …Lgbtq+ Community CentersPublic University Foundatio…Youth Development CentersHomeless Services & ShelterDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Senior Support ServicesChild and Family ServicesCommunity Health Centers
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%66%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/103
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,462

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

95 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. 95 of the 147 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/95
Grantees still filing
79/95
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Farm and Market Project — $140,000 · OtherYouth Farm and Market ProjectURBAN ROOTS MN — $93,000 · OtherURBAN ROOTS MNST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $80,000 · OtherST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERYVA Peninsula Foodbank — $70,000 · OtherVA Peninsula FoodbankALIVENESS PROJECT INC — $70,000 · OtherALIVENESS PROJECT INCFeed More Community Kitchen — $54,280 · OtherGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK — $50,000 · OtherHEALTH BRIGADE — $48,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC — $45,000 · Other+86 more — $559,752 · Other+86 moreCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $135,488 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $75,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THEOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INCPAUL'S PANTRY INC — $55,000 · Food & NutritionPAUL'S PANTRY INCVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $50,000 · Food & NutritionVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANKGreat Plains Food Bank — $50,000 · Food & NutritionGreat Plains Food BankILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY — $40,000 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRYMATTER — $40,000 · Food & NutritionMATTERGROW PITTSBURGH — $40,000 · Food & NutritionGROW PITTSBURGHAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC — $29,280 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $26,655 · Food & Nutrition+13 more — $140,225 · Food & Nutrition+13 moreOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $90,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF M…THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR…NURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $40,000 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEW…AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILD…AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesAN ACHIEVABLE …SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSILVER KEY SEN…SALT AND LIGHT NFP — $20,000 · Human ServicesSALT AND LIGHT…DENVER RESCUE MISSION — $15,000 · Human ServicesTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC — $15,000 · Human Services+6 more — $6,550 · Human ServicesFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $127,000 · HealthFOOD & FRI…Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $75,000 · HealthChildren's…CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthCENTRACARE…DELTA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $15,000 · HealthDELTA HEAL…CORNERSTONE — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $15,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $750 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC — $30,000 · International+1 more — $350 · InternationalPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $350 · Community Improvement
Other$1,210,032Food & Nutrition$741,648Human Services$321,550Health$242,000Youth Development$35,750International$30,350Community Improvement$20,350

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $135,488 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $127,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN — $93,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALIVENESS PROJECT INC — $70,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE — $48,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC — $29,280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $26,655 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $7,375 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRICK MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetROOM AT THE INN — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVEAP Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEWASKA LUTHERAN HOME — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Greater Twin Cities U…Hunger Solutions Minn…UNFI FoundationThe K FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…
Otto Bremer TrustMN27.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · UNFI Foundation · The K Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation

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 SUPERVALU 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
  • George Fox University — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to SUPERVALU Foundation?

Find your warmest path to SUPERVALU 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 147 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines