Who funds food and agriculture
$29.0B reached 52,606 food and agriculture organizations across the 2022 and 2023 filings. The money concentrates: the few largest organizations draw a heavy share of it.
The short version
- $29.0B in tracked US grants reached 52,606 food and agriculture organizations across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
- The single largest recipient, Feeding America, drew $698M, 2% of all tracked food and agriculture funding.
- The most committed funder is Feeding America, which gives 45.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going to food and agriculture.
- Most food and agriculture money lands on organizations in California, 9% of the tracked total.
Funders most focused on food and agriculture
Not the biggest checks, the most committed. Each funder's share of giving to food and agriculture, against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank. The multiple is how many times the national rate it gives.
Organizations that draw the most
The food and agriculture organizations receiving the most grant money, sized by dollars. Pick one to see who funds it.
Where the money lands
The states whose organizations draw the most food and agriculture money.
Largest funders of food and agriculture
Funders by organization size
Who funds food and agriculture organizations at each size, with the funders most focused on them. Useful if you are small and the big-institution funders are not a fit.
Questions and answers
- What counts as food and agriculture in this data?
- Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Food and agriculture covers every grant placed there, counted by where the money lands.
- What is the difference between the largest and the most committed funders of food and agriculture?
- The largest by dollars are Gates Foundation and Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, but they spread money across many causes. The most committed concentrate on food and agriculture: Feeding America gives 45.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going there.
- How can a food and agriculture nonprofit find funders?
- Look beyond the biggest names to the specialists, the funders giving food and agriculture an outsized share of their budget, and to the states where food and agriculture money concentrates, led by California. Both are listed on this page.
- How recent is this food and agriculture funding data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.