How much did WASTE NOT INC grant in FY2020?

WASTE NOT INC reported 43 grants totaling $2,939,096 in its FY2020 IRS filing.

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WASTE NOT INC

A great deal of time, money, and resources go into growing and transporting nutritious food.

$2.9M

Granted FY2020

Grants

Communities

$451k

Largest

01What you fund

01beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

empower youngyoung reachreach fullfull potentialpotential productiveproductive caringcaring responsible

2021

empower youngyoung reachreach fullfull potentialpotential productiveproductive caringcaring responsible

2022

lutheran churchinternationalhungerempower youngyoung reachreach fullfull potential

2023

scottsdalesexinternationalnativenaciyouthabuse

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

02FY2020 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k3 grants · $26k
$10k–50k29 grants · $837k
$50k–250k9 grants · $915k
$250k+2 grants · $844k

$33,323

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Sunshine Rescue Mission

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.…

Religion

Justa Center Inc

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.

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Nazcare Inc

To provide behavioral health consumer-operated support, education, training services, and housing support to mental health consumers of arizona

Health

Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health

Our mission is to continually 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…

Health

House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc

To serve women, families, and veterans by providing temporary housing, resources, individualized case management and a pathway to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter

Azcend

At AZCEND, we change lives by nourishing minds and bodies to create a connected, thriving community through the Chandler Food Bank, Family Resource Center, Neighborhood Assistance Services (NAS), Homeless Programs and Senior Nutrition and…

Human Services

Arizona Women's Recovery Center

The organization provides community education, information, and counseling on alcoholism and drug dependence. the agency also provides supportive housing to women and children in recovery as well as emergency housing for pregnant women…

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Family Promise - Greater Phoenix

Housing support services focused on preventing homelessness, providing shelter, and preparing graduates for long-term self-sufficiency through employment and cash flow skills. all services are exclusively for families with children.

Religion

Mesilla Valley Community of Hope

Mesilla valley community of hope is a daytime service center for homeless people. it provides programs and intensive case management. it operates several housing programs to meet the people's emergency, transitional and permanent housing…

Human Services

Reach for It of Tucson Inc

Promote and support housing and work opportunities to veterans, low-income families, addicts, and people on probation

Housing & Shelter

Caring Ministries Inc

Food and clothing distribution along the arizona/mexico border and southern arizona. provide living quarters for volunteer missionaries who have no other place to live and to provide support to orphanages.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empact-Suicide Prevention Center. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/76

the rest of the field

14%

2,458/16,977

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.

04the grantee network

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/51

Grantees still filing

44/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,720,707Human Services$240,529Religion$169,713Health$169,219Community Improvement$145,167Housing & Shelter$127,389Food & Nutrition$49,465

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.

St Mary's Food Bank AllianceAZ56.1× affinity25 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 · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · American Express Foundation · United Food Bank · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Foster Alliance

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 organisation 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MERCY HILL CHURCH (CHURCH ON FILLMORE).

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 825232394 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MERCY HILL CHURCH (CHURCH ON FILLMORE), cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Waste Not Inc?

Find your warmest path to Waste Not Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WASTE NOT INC

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Waste Not Inc?

More from the funding graph

WASTE NOT INC

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Waste Not Inc?

More from the funding graph