Food for the Poor Inc
Coconut Creek, FL · EIN 59-2174510. Reported 71 grants totalling $6,164,746 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Food for the Poor Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q330) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 44% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $48,135. Half of what it reported fell between $12,283 and $98,400; the smallest was $5,950 and the largest $424,525. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
41 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $4,340,702 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $616,813 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fr Michaels Mission Inc | La Plata, MD | $425,327 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Florida Baptist Convention | Jacksonville, FL | $411,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Johns Episcopal Church | Ellicott City, MD | $407,417 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highland Park United Methodist | Dallas, TX | $363,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc | Dallas, TX | $356,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $352,504 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Marys Catholic Church | Clinton, MD | $326,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Marys Church | Brooklyn, NY | $319,505 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mercado Global Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $294,515 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Our Little Roses Foreign Mission Society | Biscayne Park, FL | $235,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church of Hialeah | Hialeah, FL | $182,038 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vox Church Inc | Branford, CT | $150,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sma America | Rocklin, CA | $117,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chipola Rainbow Home Builders Association Inc | Marianna, FL | $102,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pensacola First Baptist Church | Pensacola, FL | $102,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston | Houston, TX | $99,048 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 4B Disaster Response Network | Texas City, TX | $98,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parkridge Baptist Church | Coral Springs, FL | $96,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Next Level Church Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $89,103 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of St Petersburg Inc | Seminole, FL | $78,048 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Water Missions International | North Charleston, SC | $77,428 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Off-the-Grid Missions | San Diego, CA | $72,342 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harvest Time International Inc | Sanford, FL | $65,228 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Union Church | Glen Burne, MD | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Codespa America | Washington, DC | $62,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Johns Episcopal Church | Hvre De Grace, MD | $61,447 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida Methodist Foundation Inc | Lakeland, FL | $51,090 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese Raleigh Inc | Raleigh, NC | $49,589 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pine Island First Baptist Church | Bokeelia, FL | $44,058 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Send Relief Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $35,182 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Liberty Movement Ministry | Greenacres, FL | $32,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Team of Life Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $32,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Iglesia Bautista De Jesu Cristo | Immokalee, FL | $31,287 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boca Raton Housiing Authority | Boca Raton, FL | $27,395 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caritas De Puerto Rico | San Juan, PR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iglesia Episcopal Puertorriquena Inc | San Juan, PR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of Acadiana Inc | Lafayette, LA | $24,727 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Society of Saint Vincent De Paul Archdiocesan Council of Miami Inc | Coral Springs, FL | $23,115 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro Kentucky Charitable Tr Fund Inc | Owensboro, KY | $22,971 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church | Lakeland, FL | $22,157 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvest Time International Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $21,371 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Church of the Nativity | Burke, VA | $14,146 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Louis Catholic Church | Houma, LA | $13,797 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boca Raton Community Church Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Crossbridge Community Church of San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa, CA | $7,128 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beth-El Farm Worker Ministry | Wimauma, FL | $6,320 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Somers Lions Club | Somers, NY | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Somers Department of Parks and Recreation | Somers, NY | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
12 of 50 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $3,296,687 | $102,700 |
| 2022 | 16 | $1,379,584 | $54,620 |
| 2023 | 14 | $562,436 | $24,931 |
| 2024 | 20 | $926,039 | $24,863 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
32% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $48,135 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Food for the Poor Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, FL, 33073.
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