About 3000 Club
The 3000 Club is overwhelmingly focused on hunger relief, particularly funding child- and faith-oriented feeding programs and large food-distribution networks, while also making a secondary, recurring commitment to cancer and heart disease research/aid organizations. Their grants favor repeat, mission-specific grantees (many with religious or faith‑based names) and include occasional support for animal welfare and international child hunger efforts.
Focus Areas
Child-focused hunger relief and feeding ministries (e.g., organizations named 'Feed My Hungry Children', 'Feeding a Child's Hunger')Large-scale food banks and food-distribution networks (e.g., Midwest Food Bank, Feeding America affiliates)Food rescue and farm-to-charity programs (e.g., Farmlink-style agricultural redistribution)Cancer research and patient aid funds with emphasis on breast and pediatric cancerFaith-based community partners combining religious institutions and hunger programs
Who They Fund
unspecified beneficiaries
Giving Approach
About 3000 Club
The 3000 Club’s grantmaking is dominated by very large program-support awards to hunger-relief organizations, led by a $37,722,250 grant to Feed My Hungry Children in Phoenix in 2024 and a $31,290,529 grant to the same group in 2023. Those two awards alone show the scale at which the foundation operates, while its recurring support for food-distribution groups points to a steady emphasis on feeding programs rather than one-off projects. The foundation also backs related redistribution work through Farmlink, with grants in 2024 and 2025, suggesting interest in moving surplus food into charitable channels. Beyond hunger relief, the grant list shows a secondary, repeated commitment to health and animal-welfare causes, but the largest and most frequent awards are clearly tied to feeding ministries and food-access networks. The pattern is highly program-specific: the recipients are organizations with mission names centered on children’s hunger, faith-linked feeding, or bulk food distribution, and the grants are structured as program support rather than unrestricted awards.
What 3000 Club Funds
Hunger relief is the clearest theme in The 3000 Club’s portfolio. In 2025, it gave $1,000,000 to Feeding America's Hungry Children in Peoria, and in the same year it awarded $550,000 to Feed My Hungry Children in Phoenix, both as program support. A related food-distribution angle appears in the $795,150 grant to Midwest Food Bank in Normal, Illinois, which extends the foundation’s support to a large-scale food bank model. The foundation also funds food rescue and farm-to-charity redistribution: Farmlink received $4,201,510 in 2025 after a $3,896,653 grant in 2024. Health-related giving is present as well, including $110,000 each in 2023 to Breast Cancer Aid and Research Institute, Breast Cancer Research and Assistance Fund, and Cancer Aid and Research Fund.
How 3000 Club Gives
The grant-size distribution is wide: the 25th percentile is $21,500, the median is $40,000, and the 75th percentile is $70,000. That middle range sits far below the foundation’s largest hunger-relief awards, which indicates a portfolio built around a few very large program-support grants and many smaller awards. The same grantees appear across multiple years, especially in hunger relief, showing a recurring funding pattern rather than isolated gifts. The foundation is a private grantmaker that does not fund individuals and is not making program-related investments. The recent grants are all labeled program support, which suggests project- or operating-program funding instead of unrestricted general support.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$6.9M
Total Assets
$176K
Total Revenue
$31.6M
Total Expenses
$31.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $22K and $70K, with a median of $40K.
25th Percentile
$22K
Median
$40K
75th Percentile
$70K
Geographic Reach
Local4 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
NICCO PUNZALAN
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