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The Food Shippers of America Inc

Improve service in the transportation industry.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$270kInternational$135kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kAnimals$30kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$20kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $85,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $108,005 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,005 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIND FOOD BANK$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,000
WESTSIDE FOOD BANK$15,000
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
THE SOCIETY OF SAINT ANDREW INC$10,000
AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC$5,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOR GOODNESS CAKES: $10k → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 14%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

IL
NY
CA
KY
VA
AZ
DC
LA
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$390k · 5 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$390k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitInternationalAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • AL
    AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +356%
  • Feeding America
    8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +84%
  • FI
    FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • UF
    UNITED FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -64%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +9%

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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

3
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
4
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

5
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
7
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
8
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
Farm Share Inc

A.farm share, inc. (the "organization") is a non-profit organization and was incorporated under the laws of the state of florida on july 8, 1992 as a 501c3 corporation that is tax-exempt under the provision of the internal revenue code.…

Food & Nutrition
11
All Faiths Food Bank Inc

Together with our partners, we provide healthy solutions to end hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Humane Association. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%52%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%24%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%50%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,543

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

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Feeding America — $110,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INCMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $20,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICAWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $15,000 · Food & NutritionWESTSIDE FOOD BANKTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $5,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK — $135,300 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETW…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $5,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR T…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · OtherSECOND HARVES…AMERICAN LEGION DEPART OF FLORIDA INC — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGI…SHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STR…THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherTHE EMERIL LA…NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY — $5,000 · OtherNAVY-MARINE C…Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust — $5,000 · OtherDisabled Amer…Ronald McDonald House Global — $5,000 · OtherRonald McDona…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,000 · Human ServicesFOR GOODNESS CAKES — $10,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $10,000 · Animals
Food & Nutrition$235,000Public Safety & Disaster$135,300International$50,000Other$65,000Human Services$30,000Education$25,000Animals$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK — $135,300 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetFeeding America — $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION DEPART OF FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR GOODNESS CAKES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Network for GoodDC8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Food Shippers of America Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to The Food Shippers of America Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Food Shippers of America 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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