· Public charity
Better Food Foundation Inc
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $698,922 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,052,832 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $353,910 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
- $250k+1 grant · $465k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FARM FORWARD INC | $465,422 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $180,000 |
| FOOD EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $41,000 |
| UNIVERSALIST UNITARIANS FOR THE | $12,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your 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
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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
- FFFARM FORWARD INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +51% · 38% of their budget
- BHBETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $231k · revenue ×233
- EUEASTERN UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- GBGREENER BY DEFAULTone grant, 2023 · $155k
- FFFOOD FOR CLIMATE LEAGUEone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -12%
- NRNew Roots Institutegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +110%
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.
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
We empower food service programs and school districts to make food delicious, nourishing, and responsible through our evidence-based certification program. We provide education and support that inspires students, schools, and communities…
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 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…
To educate, equip & empower physicians & other healthcare providers about the benefits of plant-based nutrition, to produce resources to inform & inspire their patients to shift to a whole food, plant-based way of living.
FarmSTAND uses legal advocacy and public education to address the environmental, labor, and animal welfare impacts of industrial agriculture and to support the viability of small family farmers.
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
Jewish veg's mission is to encourage and help jews to embrace plant-based diets as an expression of the jewish values of compassion for animals, concern for health, and care for the environment.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greener By Default and the most unlike its peers is Creaturekind. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 FARM FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds CREATUREKIND ↗
- Who funds SHAMAYIM V ARETZ INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GREENER BY DEFAULT ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR CLIMATE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Food Empowerment Project ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New Roots Institute ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds A Well-Fed World ↗
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 · The Greenbaum Foundation · Vegfund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Builders Vision Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Better Food Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% 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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