How much does Whyhunger Inc give?

Whyhunger Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $440,000, out of $1,048,412 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Whyhunger Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (94%), Environment (5%), Education (1%).

Who are Whyhunger Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Niweskok ($485k), Inquiring Systems Inc ($359k), Our Kitchen Table ($335k).

Does Whyhunger Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Whyhunger Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Impactassetsinc.

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New York · Public charity

Whyhunger Inc

Whyhunger believes a world without hunger is possible. We provide critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial, and economic justice. We are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the u.s. And around the world.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 13
Itemized grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 24%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $440k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $80,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 56; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 10
Total assets, FY2024: $6.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Whyhunger Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	13	$440k	0%
FY2023	25	$1.1M	24%
FY2022	32	$1.8M	28%
FY2021	56	$2.5M	59%
FY2020	50	$1.2M	84%
FY2018	9	$288k	67%
FY2017	6	$89k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$7.0MEnvironment$360kEducation$68kInternational$20kEmployment$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Niweskok	$485,075	1	n/a
Inquiring Systems Inc	$359,102	5	3%
Our Kitchen Table	$335,000	2	4%
Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center Inc	$312,500	5	5%
The Campaign Against Hunger Inc	$284,989	3	1%
Southern Conservation Partners Inc	$249,900	5	13%
Center for Ideas Equity and Transformative Change	$226,000	2	n/a
Fusion Partnership Inc	$220,000	5	1%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	$216,000	5	0%
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network	$205,000	4	4%

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All grantees of Whyhunger Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Niweskok	$485,075	1	n/a
Inquiring Systems Inc	$359,102	5	3%
Our Kitchen Table	$335,000	2	4%
Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center Inc	$312,500	5	5%
The Campaign Against Hunger Inc	$284,989	3	1%
Southern Conservation Partners Inc	$249,900	5	13%
Center for Ideas Equity and Transformative Change	$226,000	2	n/a
Fusion Partnership Inc	$220,000	5	1%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	$216,000	5	0%
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network	$205,000	4	4%
Neighbors Together Corporation	$199,989	2	16%
4dasoil	$155,000	2	12%
Community Food Bank Inc	$136,526	1	0%
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec	$125,000	5	4%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$118,603	3	0%
Tiny Seed Project Inc	$115,000	4	20%
Organizacion Boricua de Agricultura Ecologica	$114,352	4	n/a
Open Space Institute Inc	$110,000	3	3%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$108,596	2	0%
Second Harvest Inland Northwest	$106,000	1	0%
Resist Inc	$102,000	4	0%
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County	$101,714	2	1%
Philabundance	$99,825	1	0%
Rid-All Foundation Inc	$91,239	1	6%
Mississippi Association of Cooperatives Inc	$90,345	4	7%
The Praxis Project Inc	$90,000	3	0%
Nipmuc Indian Development Corp	$90,000	4	50%
Institute for Washingtons Future	$85,000	3	4%
Ourspace World Inc	$80,000	2	47%
Black Farmer Fund Inc	$71,700	3	1%
Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas Inc	$70,000	3	6%
Farmworker Association of Florida Inc	$70,000	3	4%
Afroresistance Inc	$67,500	2	3%
Maryland Philanthropy Network	$65,000	3	0%
Hill District Consensus Group	$63,240	1	6%
Harry Chapin Foundation	$60,570	6	11%
Yeyo Arts Collective Inc	$60,000	2	n/a
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi	$60,000	2	4%
Mother Hubbards Cupboard Inc	$60,000	2	7%
National Black Food and Justice Alliance	$55,000	2	1%
Agrarian Land Trust	$54,813	1	4%
Hunger Free Vermont Inc	$54,092	2	2%
Local Matters	$50,000	1	4%
Fruit of the Spirit Ministries Kennett Missouri	$50,000	1	n/a
Broad Street Presbyterian Church	$50,000	1	n/a
Community Response	$50,000	1	18%
Midway Music Speaks	$50,000	1	n/a
Oneida Tribe Elderly Services	$50,000	1	n/a
The Urban Arts Exploratory and Mediation Center	$50,000	1	n/a
Urban Core Collective	$50,000	1	6%
City Blossoms Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Good Journey Development Foundation	$50,000	1	24%
Cumberland County Food Security Council	$50,000	1	14%
Alma Center Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Access of West Michigan	$50,000	1	5%
Heru Urban Farming and Garden	$50,000	1	20%
Mused	$50,000	1	n/a
Detroit Food Policy Council	$50,000	1	n/a
Black Sustainability Inc	$50,000	2	10%
Growing Home Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Open Buffalo Inc	$47,568	1	4%
Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute	$45,000	4	4%
Federation of Southern Cooperatives	$35,000	1	1%
Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation	$30,000	2	7%
Kids Kitchen	$30,000	1	n/a
Family Farm Defenders Incorporated	$30,000	1	42%
National Save The Family Farm Coalition	$30,000	2	3%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$25,000	1	0%
Latin American and Caribbean Community Center	$25,000	1	7%
Center for the study of the Americas	$20,000	2	4%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$20,000	1	0%
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation	$20,000	2	0%
The John Bartram Association	$15,000	2	0%
Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Haley House Inc & Affiliates	$15,000	2	0%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana	$11,508	1	0%
Food Chain Workers Alliance	$11,049	1	1%
La Finca del Sur South Bronx Farmers Inc	$10,729	1	n/a
Familias Unidas Por la Justica	$10,000	1	n/a
Rural Community Workers Alliance	$10,000	1	5%
Environmentalism Through Inspiration & Nonviolent Action	$10,000	1	4%
Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
North American Students of Cooperation	$10,000	1	3%
Food Forward Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Food for Maine's Future Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Farm Training Collective NYC Inc	$10,000	1	1%
American Friends Service Committee	$10,000	1	n/a
Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine	$10,000	1	1%
Village Volunteers	$10,000	1	10%
Opencollective Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Sahuarita Food Bank	$10,000	1	n/a
Pinelands Preservation Alliance	$10,000	1	0%
The Farm School	$10,000	1	2%
University of Miami	$10,000	1	0%
Southwest Organizing Project	$10,000	1	1%
Vista Teen Outreach	$7,000	1	n/a
Metro Caring	$5,000	1	0%
Tarrant Area Food Bank	$5,000	1	0%
SUPRSEED Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Edible Prairie Project	$5,000	1	3%
DC Greens Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$5,000	1	0%

Whyhunger Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 81.

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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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA47.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Grassroots International Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Windward Fund · Movement Strategy Center · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Resist 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 Whyhunger Inc

How much does Whyhunger Inc give?: Whyhunger Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $440,000, out of $1,048,412 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Whyhunger Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (94%), Environment (5%), Education (1%).
Who are Whyhunger Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Niweskok ($485k), Inquiring Systems Inc ($359k), Our Kitchen Table ($335k).
Does Whyhunger Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Whyhunger Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Impactassetsinc.
Where is Whyhunger Inc based?: Whyhunger Inc is based in NY.