· Public charity
The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation
The foundation aims to help end hunger and waste in communities across the u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 141 grants below total $6,148,836 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,363,984 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $215,148 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 $10k37 grants · $250k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $432,910 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC | $390,932 |
| THE MILKEN INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC | $250,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| US HUNGER | $200,000 |
| SUNSHINE DIVISION | $170,000 |
| CENTER FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY LLC | $167,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $152,637 |
| MRELIEF | $150,000 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $150,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $150,000 |
| ALPENGLOW IMPACT | $149,625 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $147,456 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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
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.
222 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2025, 136 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $933k 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
Feeding America5× · 2021–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +23%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +28%- RIREFED INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +55% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
Colorado Healing Fundone grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue -96% · 41% of their budget- FFFOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -54%
- FPFARMLINK PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +248%
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.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
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…
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Scripps Howard Foundation. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
545 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. 545 of the 610 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REFED INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Colorado Healing Fund ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds mRelief ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds United Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Re-Plate Inc DBA Replate ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds GenYOUTH Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
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 Kroger Co Foundation · Feeding America · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Food Lifeline · Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Farmlink Project · Franz Bakery Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Windermere 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 Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.
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