California · Public charity
Better Food Foundation Inc
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $699k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $465,422
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $360k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Better Food Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $699k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $665k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $555k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $533k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $271k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $263k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $166k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farm Forward Inc | $1,076,350 | 4 | 38% |
| Creaturekind | $618,337 | 4 | 77% |
| Shamayim V Aretz Institute | $368,274 | 5 | 77% |
| Better Health Better Life Inc | $231,200 | 4 | 22% |
| Eastern University | $200,416 | 2 | 0% |
| University of San Diego | $180,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greener by Default | $154,657 | 1 | 14% |
| Food for Climate League | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Thrive Baltimore | $69,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Food Empowerment Project | $41,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farm Forward Inc | $1,076,350 | 4 | 38% |
| Creaturekind | $618,337 | 4 | 77% |
| Shamayim V Aretz Institute | $368,274 | 5 | 77% |
| Better Health Better Life Inc | $231,200 | 4 | 22% |
| Eastern University | $200,416 | 2 | 0% |
| University of San Diego | $180,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greener by Default | $154,657 | 1 | 14% |
| Food for Climate League | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Thrive Baltimore | $69,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Food Empowerment Project | $41,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Unitarian Universalists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals | $37,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Calvin University | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Roots Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A Well-Fed World | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Better Food Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Better Food Foundation Inc
- How much does Better Food Foundation Inc give?
- Better Food Foundation Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $698,922, out of $1,052,832 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Better Food Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (55%), Animals (33%), Health (7%).
- Who are Better Food Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Farm Forward Inc ($1.1M), Creaturekind ($618k), Shamayim V Aretz Institute ($368k).
- Does Better Food Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Better Food Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Quinn Foundation, The Greenbaum Foundation, Vegfund Inc.
- Where is Better Food Foundation Inc based?
- Better Food Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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