FoodFinder

national food pantry locator nonprofit

FoodFinder

Industry Aid

A nonprofit food pantry locator that helps people find free food assistance nearby through a website and mobile app. FoodFinder scores high because it turns emergency food discovery into a simple public tool rather than a donor-facing charity brand, though it depends on external pantry data and does not itself provide food everywhere.

Why this matters: Food resources are only real if people can find the right door, hours, and location when they need help.

Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 65* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material55
Bonus+10
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap65
Penalties0
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Extraction8/10
  • Ownership7/10
  • Governance7/10

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims13
  • Direct axis claims13
  • Coverage13/13

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
7 / 10

FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
7 / 10

FoodFinder's linked public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
5 / 7

FoodFinder's public record gives limited direct evidence about whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
7 / 7

FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
7 / 7

FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • context FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • context FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. [1]
  • context FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. [2]
  • context FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. [3]
  • context FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. [4]
  • context FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. [5]
  • context FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. [6]
  • context FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. [7]
  • context FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. [8]
  • FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. [9]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
2 / 3

FoodFinder's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • FoodFinder's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. [10]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
2 / 3

FoodFinder's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • FoodFinder's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. [11]
Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
3 / 3

FoodFinder's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • FoodFinder's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. [12]
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
3 / 3

FoodFinder's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public resources expansion calibrated across helplines, legal-aid portals, federal benefit and disaster systems, treatment locators, digital inclusion nonprofits, and direct aid navigation resources.

Linked evidence
  • FoodFinder's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. [13]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

High 80/100

13 verified linked claims 13 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 13/13 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 17/20

13 verified linked claims

Source quality 11/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

13 direct claims across 13 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

13/13 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1FoodFinder's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2FoodFinder's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3FoodFinder's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users.

Extraction Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4FoodFinder's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

5FoodFinder's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6FoodFinder's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7FoodFinder operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8FoodFinder's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9FoodFinder's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

10FoodFinder's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Openness To Dissent Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

11FoodFinder's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Constitutional Spirit Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

12FoodFinder's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

13FoodFinder's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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