· Public charity
A Well-Fed World
A Well-Fed World is a plant-based hunger relief and climate advocacy organization.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $379,541 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,735,703 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,356,162 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $232k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cave Light Films | $147,500 |
| Casa Vegana | $84,000 |
| Argo Films | $42,223 |
| Hive Community | $31,334 |
| Holistic Wellness and Health | $26,690 |
| Nine Times Entertainment | $23,740 |
| Flourish Coalition | $15,960 |
| Grapevine Giving Foundation | $8,094 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $519k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $497k to organizations and $23k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy · Plant-Based Food Advocacy
Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy · Plant-Based Food Advocacy
Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy
Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy
Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy
Stated purpose: Plant-Based Food Advocacy
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PIPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2019–2023 · $326k · revenue +135%
- BHBETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $182k · revenue ×233
- AIAWALI INC4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +93% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- LILEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENSgraduated2× · 2021–2022 · $281k · revenue +498% · 40% of their budget
- RLRichman Law Group Factory Farming Fellowshipone grant, 2022 · $129k
- TMTHE MIGRANT KITCHEN INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We firmly believe that the animal welfare and vegan community can significantly enhance their impact by extending their efforts to all corners of the world. Our dedication is to facilitate and contribute to this global outreach, striving…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Rethink Your Food advocates for the benefits of a plant-based diet and plant-focused food system as key solutions to advancing nutrition security, and mitigating environmental concerns and animal suffering. We collaborate with Caribbean…
Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…
Exposing and eliminating animal cruelty.
Our mission to fund clinical research on the nutritional value of an animal based diet. There's so much misinformation and faulty epidemiology surveys on what humans should be eating, and not enough clinical evidence to support what is…
The organization advocates for animal rights and the vegan lifestyle, through its National Animal Rights Day (NARD) events and other projects that: 1. Promote the idea that animals have, and should have, the same basic rights that humans…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
A Well-Fed World is a plant-based hunger relief and climate advocacy organization. We nourish people in need strengthen global food security and promote plant-based feeding and farming solutions that uplift marginalized communities and…
The promotion of the transition away from factory farming to more sustainble and ethical proteins
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reducetarian Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mariposas Rebeldes Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 29% of your grantees by number, and just 48% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMSALE GESSESSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENS ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AWALI INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIGRANT KITCHEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CASA VEGANA INC ↗
- Who funds Encompass Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THRIVE PHILANTHROPY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Hive Community Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIBE OF HEART LTD ↗
- Who funds Vegan Ingenuity ↗
- Who funds REDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds T Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL & VEGAN ADVOCACY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HELP ANIMALS INDIA ↗
- Who funds IDEAS FOR US INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Quinn Foundation · Vegfund Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Karuna Foundation · Humane America Animal Foundation · The Greenbaum Foundation · Tipping Point Private Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Aceso Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Mercy for Animals Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A Well-Fed World funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ideas for Us Inc — 35% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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