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Who funds grassroots food and agriculture organizations
The funders that back grassroots food and agriculture organizations are specialists, not generalists: Dohmen Company Foundation Inc gives them 224.3× the national rate, with 84% of its grants going here. These are the small organizations the big-institution funders usually miss, so the funders that show up here are the ones worth a small food and agriculture nonprofit's time.
The short version
- 17,686 funders gave $2.5B to 14,448 grassroots food and agriculture organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Dohmen Company Foundation Inc, giving 224.3× the national rate to grassroots food and agriculture organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is The Houston Food Bank, at $44M.
- The grassroots food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Food for Health Inc, at $24M.
Funders most focused on grassroots food and agriculture organizations
Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to grassroots food and agriculture organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Grassroots food and agriculture organizations that draw the most
Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.
Questions and answers
- How do I find funders for a grassroots food and agriculture nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on grassroots food and agriculture organizations, currently Dohmen Company Foundation Inc, Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging Inc, Central Vermont Council on Aging Inc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
- What counts as a grassroots organization here?
- Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.
- How much grant money goes to grassroots food and agriculture organizations?
- $2.5B reached 14,448 grassroots food and agriculture organizations from 17,686 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
- How recent is this data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Size is median total revenue; each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.