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Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

$2.9M
Granted FY2020
43
Itemized grants FY2020
43
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$2.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$33,323
Largest grant, FY2020
$450,943
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$1.0M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$450,9436n/a
Tlc Transitional Living Communities$392,88164%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$169,71360%
Fibco Family Services Inc$152,926610%
Mercy Ministries$145,167479%
General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists$122,8642n/a
Olive Branch Community of Hope$73,0516n/a
Fire & Water Ministries$71,0216n/a
Church of God in Christ Inc$63,8364n/a
Abel House$63,1336n/a
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All grantees of Waste Not Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$450,9436n/a
Tlc Transitional Living Communities$392,88164%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$169,71360%
Fibco Family Services Inc$152,926610%
Mercy Ministries$145,167479%
General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists$122,8642n/a
Olive Branch Community of Hope$73,0516n/a
Fire & Water Ministries$71,0216n/a
Church of God in Christ Inc$63,8364n/a
Abel House$63,1336n/a
Whole Life International Foundation$52,8913n/a
West Valley Community Food Pantry$49,465627%
First New Life Church Inc$45,8723n/a
Hope Lives Vive La Esperanza$45,03163%
A New Leaf$43,70160%
The Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired$39,46862%
Sunlight of the Spirit$38,908628%
Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association$38,58060%
Empact-Suicide Prevention Center$38,08060%
United States Veterans Initiative$36,99860%
Glendale Mission and Ministry Center$36,1202n/a
Traditions Transitional Living Inc$33,32365%
Veterans for Veterans$29,7066n/a
Hope Ignites$29,23931%
Reborn$27,60066%
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc$26,79660%
Hope Women's Center Inc$26,10563%
Foundation for Senior Living$24,85221%
Homeward Bound$24,00241%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix Inc$23,4903n/a
House of Helps Community & Worship Center$23,3363n/a
Umom New Day Centers Inc$22,84460%
First United Methodist Church of Tempe$20,9602n/a
New Dimensions in Recovery Inc$19,02467%
House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc$17,66362%
Arizona Housing Inc$17,06060%
The Joshua Tree Feeding Program Inc$17,0234n/a
Mark Allen Manor Foundation Inc$15,2076n/a
Step One Halfway House Inc$14,31662%
Doves Incorporated$12,7206n/a
Maggie's Place Inc$9,94060%
Arizona Retirement Home of Scottsdale$8,80112%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America$7,5333n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Waste Not Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTlc Transitional Living Communities: $392,881 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $169,713 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFibco Family Services Inc: $152,926 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetMercy Ministries: $145,167 over 4y, 79% of budgetWest Valley Community Food Pantry: $49,465 over 6y, 27% of budgetHope Lives Vive La Esperanza: $45,031 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetA New Leaf: $43,701 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $39,468 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSunlight of the Spirit: $38,908 over 6y, 28% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $38,580 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEmpact-Suicide Prevention Center: $38,080 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Veterans Initiative: $36,998 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTraditions Transitional Living Inc: $33,323 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetHope Ignites: $29,239 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetReborn: $27,600 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetCentral Arizona Shelter Services Inc: $26,796 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHope Women's Center Inc: $26,105 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetFoundation for Senior Living: $24,852 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHomeward Bound: $24,002 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUmom New Day Centers Inc: $22,844 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew Dimensions in Recovery Inc: $19,024 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetHouse of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc: $17,663 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetArizona Housing Inc: $17,060 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetStep One Halfway House Inc: $14,316 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMaggie's Place Inc: $9,940 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetArizona Retirement Home of Scottsdale: $8,801 over 1y, 1.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

St Mary's Food Bank AllianceAZ60.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Arizona Community Foundation · Arizona Food Bank Network · United Food Bank · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc

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.

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About Waste Not Inc

How much does Waste Not Inc give?
Waste Not Inc reported 43 itemized grants totaling $2,622,189, out of $2,939,096 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Waste Not Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (99%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
Who are Waste Not Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: The Salvation Army ($451k), Tlc Transitional Living Communities ($393k), Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix ($170k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Waste Not Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Mary's Food Bank Alliance, Arizona Community Foundation, Arizona Food Bank Network.
Where is Waste Not Inc based?
Waste Not Inc is based in AZ.

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 43 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.3M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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