· Public charity
Waste Not Inc
Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $2,622,189 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,939,096 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $316,907 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $837k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $915k
- $250k+2 grants · $844k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $450,943 |
| TRANSITIONAL LIVING COMM (TLC) | $392,881 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $169,713 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD HOME | $152,926 |
| MERCY HILL CHURCH (CHURCH ON FILLMORE) | $145,167 |
| SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES | $122,864 |
| OLIVE BRANCH COMMUNITY OF HOPE | $73,051 |
| FIRE & WATER INTERNATION CHURCH | $71,021 |
| EMMANUAL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST | $63,836 |
| ABEL HOUSE | $63,133 |
| WHOLE LIFE | $52,891 |
| WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $49,465 |
| FIRST NEW LIFE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $45,872 |
| HOPE LIVES - VIVE LA ESPERENZA | $45,031 |
| A NEW LEAF (PHOENIX DAY) | $43,701 |
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 (FY20–20, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…
To provide services, support, and education to all who experience the effects of family dysfunction and/or violence, past and present.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…
Our Family's mission is to eliminate homelessness and strengthen our community. We do this by providing stability in times of crisis, linking people to support and resources, supporting social connectedness, engaging our neighbors to…
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
Promote and support housing and work opportunities to veterans, low-income families, addicts, and people on probation
Providing affordable housing for low-income families in the phoenix metro area.
Our holistic approach prepares and embraces individuals to age independently, safely and with peace of mind.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Veteran Alliance Usa Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
56 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.
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.
- Who funds TLC TRANSITIONAL LIVING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds FIBCO FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ministries ↗
- Who funds WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Hope Lives Vive La Esperanza ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds SUNLIGHT OF THE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds EMPACT-SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Traditions Transitional Living Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ↗
- Who funds REBORN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIMENSIONS IN RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA TREE FEEDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MARK ALLEN MANOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Step One Halfway House Inc ↗
- Who funds DOVES INCORPORATED ↗
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: 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
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 Waste Not Inc 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.
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.