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Tri-State Food Bank

TRI-STATE FOOD BANK, inc solicits, warehouses, and disburses donated and purchased food products to other not-for-profit entities in indiana, illinois, and kentucky.

$25M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$108kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $80,104, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,827,915 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,747,811 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY-OWENSBORO$21,000
ARROWLEAF-VIENNA$14,771
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$13,429
OASIS CHURCHSOULED OUT SATURDAY$9,698
CRITTENDEN COUNTY FOOD PANTRY$8,000
STUGIS CHURCH OF GOD$4,766
4CS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER$4,229
CANNELTON FOOD PANTRY$3,530
BETHEL TEMPLE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES$681
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DUBOIS COMM FP: $1k → 8%CHRISTIAN RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 9%ARROWLEAF-VIENNA: $15k → 16%ARROWLEAF FOOD PANTRY-CAIRO: $2k → 23%NORTH SPENCER COMM ACT: $1k → 7%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.
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 4 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
23

Total granted

$46k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+163%
+174%

Still filing today

50%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • A
    ARROWLEAF
    3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • SP
    SAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    7× · 2017–2024 · $14k
  • OA
    OASIS ASSEMBLY OF GOD INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $11k

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2k
  • BM
    BETHESDA MINISTRIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1k
  • CP
    CAPE POSEY COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1k
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
Christs Hands Inc

Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.

Food & Nutrition
2
Geneseo-Atkinson Food Pantry

The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.

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3
Grace Resource Center Inc

To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.

Housing & Shelter
4
Christian Care

Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge

Housing & Shelter
5
Harvest of Hope Food Pantry Inc

Food Pantry

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6
Community Ministries Inc Community Kitchen

Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.

Religion
7
Hancock County Food Pantry Inc

Our mission is to secure and distribute food to the needy in an effort to alleviate hunger in indiana.

Food & Nutrition
8
Gods Pantry of Pulaski County Inc

A group comprised of individuals, church groups, civic organizations, and city and county officials joining together their efforts to provide Pulaski County residents food in emergency situations.

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9
Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc

Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.

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10
Sunshine for Humanity Inc

Homeless Shelter

Health
11
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
12
Anderson County Community Action Inc

The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Indiana Regional Council On Aging Inc Dba Swirca & More; the most unlike its peers is K-Lees Food Pantry Nfp. 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

52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $21,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $14,429 · OtherSAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCHOASIS ASSEMBLY OF GOD INC: $10,698 · OtherOASIS ASSEMBLY OF GOD INCCRITTENDEN COUNTY FISCAL COURT: $8,000 · OtherCRITTENDEN COUNTY FISCAL COURTFAITH HOPE & LOVE COGIC: $4,766 · OtherFAITH HOPE & LOVE COGIC4CS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,229 · Other+18 more: $18,681 · Other+18 moreARROWLEAF: $16,271 · Human ServicesARROWLEAFCHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF H'BURG INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesNORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF PERRY COUNTY INC: $4,530 · PhilanthropyENCOUNTERING HOPE MINISTRIES INCORPORATE: $1,000 · ReligionPIKE COUNTY CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $1,000 · ReligionUnited Caring Shelters Inc: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$81,803Human Services$19,271Philanthropy$4,530Religion$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARROWLEAF: $16,271 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PERRY COUNTY INC: $4,530 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetENCOUNTERING HOPE MINISTRIES INCORPORATE: $1,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF H'BURG INC: $1,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPIKE COUNTY CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $1,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $1,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Caring Shelters Inc: $1,000 over 7y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ARROWLEAF ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PERRY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ENCOUNTERING HOPE MINISTRIES INCORPORATE ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF H'BURG INC ↗
  • Who funds PIKE COUNTY CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds United Caring Shelters Inc ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Welborn Baptist Found…Holiday Management Fo…Koch Foundation IncWest Side Nut Club IncUnited Way of the Ohi…Evansville Endowment …Centerpoint Energy Fo…Cecil a and Mabel Len…Edward Love FoundationThe Bower-Suhrheinric…Lester E Yeager Chari…
Community Foundation Alliance IncIN41.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Holiday Management Foundation · Koch Foundation Inc · West Side Nut Club Inc · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Edward Love Foundation · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B

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 Tri-State Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tri-State Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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