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The Food Shippers of America Inc at a glance

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The Food Shippers of America Inc

Improve service in the transportation industry.

$85k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$270kInternational$135kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kAnimals$30kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$20kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $61,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $84,727 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,227 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 · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED AGAINST POVERTY$17,500
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK$10,000
THE SOCIETY OF SAINT ANDREW INC$7,500
FIND FOOD BANK$7,500
FEED OUR VETERANS$7,500
AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,500
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:

Its 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 its 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
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
CA
KY
VA
AZ
DC
LA
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$435k · 6 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$435k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • AL
    AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK
    9× · 2017–2026 · $145k · revenue +356%
  • Feeding America
    9× · 2017–2026 · $120k · revenue +84%
  • FI
    FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
    5× · 2019–2026 · $83k · 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 -33%
  • WF
    WESTSIDE FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
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
Arizona Food Bank Network

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

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
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.

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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…

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5
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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6
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
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
Rise Against Hunger Inc

Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…

International
12
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 143 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Feeding America: $120,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $82,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INCMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $20,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICATHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $17,500 · Food & NutritionTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INCWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionWESTSIDE FOOD BANK+2 more: $12,500 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK: $145,300 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NET…+1 more: $1,500 · Public Safety & DisasterSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $25,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST…UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $17,500 · OtherUNITED AGAINST…AMERICAN LEGION DEPART OF FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGIO…SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $5,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRE…THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE EMERIL LAG…Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $5,000 · OtherDisabled Ameri…NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $5,000 · OtherNAVY-MARINE CO…Ronald McDonald House Global: $5,000 · OtherRonald McDonal…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $45,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $5,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR …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$267,500Public Safety & Disaster$146,800Other$82,500International$50,000Human Services$30,000Education$25,000Animals$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK: $145,300 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetFeeding America: $120,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $82,500 over 5y, 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 budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION DEPART OF FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOR GOODNESS CAKES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Food Shippers of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Food Shippers of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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