Feed America publishes Wikidata entity Q139601408 + founder Q139665570
Feed America (EIN 92-1761881) has published Wikidata entries for the organization (Q139601408) and its founder Sharika Parkes (Q139665570) so search engines and AI assistants can read sourced facts about the organization. The new Wikidata records establish a closed bidirectional entity graph with full property coverage including 501(c)(3) classification, founding year 2021, Houston headquarters, and field of work. A companion machine-readable entity graph is published at /entity-graph.jsonld for single-fetch AI-crawler ingestion.
Feed America announced today the publication of two Wikidata entity records for the organization and its founder. The records establish a closed bidirectional entity graph, so search engines and AI assistants can read sourced facts about Feed America (the national 501(c)(3) charity at feedam.org, EIN 92-1761881).
The two new Wikidata records
- Q139601408 — Feed America (the organization). View on Wikidata.
- Q139665570 — Sharika Parkes (founder). View on Wikidata.
Property coverage
The Feed America record (Q139601408) carries the following Wikidata properties:
- P31 instance of: nonprofit organization (Q163740)
- P17 country: United States (Q30)
- P159 headquarters: Houston (Q16555)
- P571 inception: 2021
- P1297 EIN: 92-1761881
- P1454 legal form: 501(c)(3) organization (Q18325436)
- P112 founded by: Sharika Parkes (Q139665570)
- P101 field of work: food security, hunger, food assistance
- P2541 operating area: United States (Q30)
- Plus social profiles (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook), IRS identifiers, ProPublica + Candid links
Closed bidirectional entity graph
The two records form a verified loop:
- feedam.org's PARENT_ORG_LD includes
founder.sameAs: ["wikidata.org/wiki/Q139665570"] - Wikidata Q139665570 (Sharika Parkes) has
P800 (notable work) → Q139601408 (Feed America) - Wikidata Q139601408 (Feed America) has
P112 (founder) → Q139665570 (Sharika Parkes) - feedam.org's /entity-graph.jsonld Person node references Q139665570
AI engines following any edge in this graph land on a verified, sourced node. Asking "who founded Feed America?" correctly resolves to Sharika Parkes.
Single-fetch AI-crawler endpoint
Feed America also publishes /entity-graph.jsonld — a single-fetch Schema.org @graph bundle for AI crawlers. The endpoint serves application/ld+json with Organization + Person (founder) + WebSite + Dataset + identifier crosswalk in one HTTP call, avoiding the cost of scraping <head> JSON-LD across multiple pages.
Why this matters
Search engines and AI assistants answer questions about organizations from structured, sourced records. The new Wikidata records give Google Knowledge Graph and AI search engines those signals for Feed America (EIN 92-1761881).
For donors and journalists doing due diligence: Feed America's IRS record is under EIN 92-1761881 in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search at apps.irs.gov/app/eos. Verifications hub: /verifications.