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A Well-Fed World

A Well-Fed World is a plant-based hunger relief and climate advocacy organization.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$148k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.1MAnimals$921kEnvironment$383kHealth$7k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $379,541, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,735,703 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,356,162 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $232k
$31,334
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pollination Project: $10k → 10%Ideas for Us: $20k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$398k · 77% · 5 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy · Plant-Based Food Advocacy

North America (Canada and Mexico)$66k · 13% · 3 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy · Plant-Based Food Advocacy

Sub-Saharan Africa$29k · 6% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy

South America$20k · 4% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy

Russia and Neighboring States$5k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Food & Advocacy

Middle East and North Africa$2k · 0% · 2 people

Stated purpose: Plant-Based Food Advocacy

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 24 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
42

Total granted

$2.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’22’23’24’25
AnimalsFood & NutritionEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PI
    PROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $326k · revenue +135%
  • BH
    BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $182k · revenue ×233
  • AI
    AWALI INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +93% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • LI
    LEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENSgraduated
    2× · 2021–2022 · $281k · revenue +498% · 40% of their budget
  • RL
    Richman Law Group Factory Farming Fellowship
    one grant, 2022 · $129k
  • TM
    THE MIGRANT KITCHEN INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Middle East Vegan Society Inc

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…

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3
Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals
4
Rethink Your Food Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Institute for Animal Happiness

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…

Animals
6
Animal Protection and Rescue League Inc

Exposing and eliminating animal cruelty.

Animals
7
Animal Equality

Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.

Animals
8
Animal Based Nutrition Research Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
10
Our Planet Theirs Too Inc

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…

Animals
11
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
12
Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reducetarian Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/51
Grantees still filing
19/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMSALE GESSESSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $495,000 · OtherAMSALE GESSESSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC: $325,500 · OtherPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INCRichman Law Group Fellowship Jay Shooster: $292,506 · OtherRichman Law Group Fellowship Jay ShoosterMaituFoods: $287,100 · OtherMaituFoodsVEGGIE MIJAS: $271,168 · OtherVEGGIE MIJASVeltree the Vegan Experience: $163,800 · OtherVeltree the Vegan ExperienceCave Light Films: $147,500 · OtherRichman Law Group Factory Farming Fellowship: $128,534 · OtherAGROFILMS LTD: $118,178 · Other+29 more: $736,505 · Other+29 moreBETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC: $182,000 · Food & NutritionBETTER HEALTH …AWALI INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionAWALI INCCASA VEGANA INC: $99,000 · Food & NutritionCASA VEGANA IN…BLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND: $70,500 · Food & NutritionBLACK VEGETARI…REDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC: $28,600 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $27,000 · Food & NutritionLEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENS: $281,080 · AnimalsLEGAL IMPACT F…INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $40,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL …OUR HEN HOUSE: $40,000 · AnimalsOUR HEN HOUSEHive Community Inc: $31,334 · AnimalsHive Community…ANIMAL & VEGAN ADVOCACY INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · AnimalsINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $20,000 · AnimalsHELP ANIMALS INDIA: $20,000 · Animals+9 more: $97,500 · Animals+9 moreTHE MIGRANT KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $100,000 · PhilanthropyT Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGrapevine giving foundation: $8,094 · PhilanthropyEarth Island Institute Inc: $50,100 · EnvironmentBRIGHTER GREEN INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentPlanted Society: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHRIVE PHILANTHROPY INCORPORATED: $47,300 · Public BenefitTRIBE OF HEART LTD: $30,001 · Arts & CultureFruit Tree Planting Foundation: $5,120 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,965,791Food & Nutrition$557,100Animals$554,914Philanthropy$133,094Environment$80,100Public Benefit$47,300Arts & Culture$35,121

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMSALE GESSESSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $495,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC: $325,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetLEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENS: $281,080 over 2y, 40% of budgetBETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC: $182,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetAWALI INC: $150,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetTHE MIGRANT KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCASA VEGANA INC: $99,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetEncompass Inc: $80,951 over 1y, 41% of budgetBLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND: $70,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $50,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE PHILANTHROPY INCORPORATED: $47,300 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOUR HEN HOUSE: $40,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTRIBE OF HEART LTD: $30,001 over 3y, 14% of budgetVegan Ingenuity: $30,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetREDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC: $28,600 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetT Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetANIMAL & VEGAN ADVOCACY INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHELP ANIMALS INDIA: $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetIDEAS FOR US INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBRIGHTER GREEN INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPeace Advocacy Network: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAFRICA NETWORK FOR ANIMAL WELFARE USA: $16,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSEED PROGRAMS INC: $16,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBEYOND CARNISM INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetA JUST WORLD: $11,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetLA RAZA FOR LIBERATION: $10,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFREE FROM HARM NFP: $10,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetVietnam Animal Aid and Rescue-US: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetVoters for Animal Rights Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNew Roots Institute: $8,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGrapevine giving foundation: $8,094 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Raven Corps: $7,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetVINEVEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH FOOD ETHICS: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFruit Tree Planting Foundation: $5,120 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Quinn FoundationVegfund IncAnimal Charity Evalua…Karuna FoundationHumane America Animal…The Greenbaum Foundat…Tipping Point Private…Effective Ventures Fo…Aceso Foundation IncRsf Social Finance IncImpactassetsincMercy for Animals Inc
The Quinn FoundationKS44.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Well-Fed World funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Well-Fed World. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Ideas for Us Inc: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to A Well-Fed World?

Find your warmest path to A Well-Fed World through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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