· Public charity
The Food Trust
THE FOOD TRUST (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and other diet-related diseases through innovative programs to increase access to fresh food and provide…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $476k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUNIR FOOD INC | $45,000 |
| LEMON & LIME LLC | $45,000 |
| TCG GROCERIES | $45,000 |
| VINE FARMERS MARKET CORP | $45,000 |
| ENIOLA AFRICAN STORE LLC | $40,000 |
| POR GRACIA SOY SALVO GROCERY CORP | $40,000 |
| Y&F SUPERMARKET LLC | $40,000 |
| DELIAH & DEAN LLC | $40,000 |
| UNCLE MUSA GROCERY INC | $35,000 |
| VEGGIEHOUSE FARM LLC | $20,000 |
| GREATER READING CHAMBER ALLIANCE | $15,707 |
| URBAN SEEDS GROW | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC | $15,000 |
| CROPS | $15,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD COUNCIL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD COUNCIL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +30%
- GRGREATER READING CHAMBER & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue -2%
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- WFWHOLE FOOD COOPERATIVEone grant, 2022 · $150k
- SMSALEM'S MARKET CENTRE LLCone grant, 2022 · $150k
- KSKING SUPER MARKET FOODone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…
Support small farms and other businesses. Bring sustainable healthy products to the community.
To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Growing a local food system where the health of people and planet come first
We work to expand access to local food for more people in the community through the purchase, aggregation, storage, marketing and delivery of fresh, safe, local food in partnership with local growers.
The organization is a non-profit that distributes local and sustainably produced foods. the organization's public purpose is to implement education programs that improve access to local foods for residents of underserved low income…
Helping under-served populations in oregon with greater access to healthy, locally grown food.
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…
To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces and the most unlike its peers is Tcg Groceries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: The Reinvestment Fund Inc · Pennsylvania Cdfi Network · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Trust 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.
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% of income from government
- Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces — 3% of income from government
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.