How much does Big Green give?

Big Green reported 40 itemized grants totaling $884,948, out of $964,748 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

What does Big Green fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (37%), Education (15%), Environment (14%).

Who are Big Green's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Gardeneers ($225k), San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ($78k), Brownsville Wellness Coalition ($75k).

Which funders back the same organizations as Big Green?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trailhead Institute, Patagoniaorg, The Denver Foundation.

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Colorado · Public charity

Big Green

Big Green believes growing food changes lives. Growing food improves nutrition security and mental health, gets us into nature, and opens our eyes to the weather volatility created by climate change. For twelve years, Big Green has helped people grow their own food with school and home-based garden programs.

$965k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 40
Itemized grants FY2024: 46
Organizations funded FY2022

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Itemized, FY2024: $885k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $78,000
States reached, FY2024: 13
Total assets, FY2024: $8.8M

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$804kEducation$340kEnvironment$302kCommunity Improvement$220kHuman Services$124kYouth Development$104kArts & Culture$100kEmployment$60kOther$0

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, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Gardeneers	$225,000	2	14%
San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc	$78,000	1	2%
Brownsville Wellness Coalition	$75,000	2	12%
Fmw Nonprofit Solutions	$60,000	1	10%
Los Cabos Children's Foundation	$55,448	1	2%
Urban Symbiosis	$51,000	2	21%
Big Heroes Inc	$50,000	2	8%
Revival of Cultural Arts	$50,000	2	8%
Hand Heart and Soul Project Inc	$50,000	1	18%
Keres Children's Learning Center	$50,000	1	3%

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All grantees of Big Green by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Gardeneers	$225,000	2	14%
San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc	$78,000	1	2%
Brownsville Wellness Coalition	$75,000	2	12%
Fmw Nonprofit Solutions	$60,000	1	10%
Los Cabos Children's Foundation	$55,448	1	2%
Urban Symbiosis	$51,000	2	21%
Big Heroes Inc	$50,000	2	8%
Revival of Cultural Arts	$50,000	2	8%
Hand Heart and Soul Project Inc	$50,000	1	18%
Keres Children's Learning Center	$50,000	1	3%
The Calvary Group	$50,000	1	n/a
Gardopia Gardens	$50,000	1	5%
First Nations Development Institute	$50,000	1	0%
Hip Hop Is Green	$40,000	1	11%
Big Green	$37,500	1	0%
Land Together Dba Insight Garden Program	$36,000	2	1%
Outer Haven	$33,500	1	n/a
Just Roots Just Roots Chicago	$30,000	2	3%
Mohammed Schools of Atlanta Ltd	$30,000	1	n/a
Ourspace World Inc	$30,000	1	10%
Think Green Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc	$26,000	1	1%
St Sabina Church	$26,000	1	n/a
Austin Public Education Foundation	$26,000	1	1%
The Healthy Earth Organization Inc	$26,000	2	14%
Montbello 2020	$25,000	1	n/a
Light Carrier	$25,000	1	n/a
Center for Urban Transformation	$25,000	1	n/a
Black Seeds	$25,000	1	24%
Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen	$25,000	1	1%
Black Sustainability Inc	$25,000	1	8%
Family Action Network Movement Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Pillsbury United Communities	$25,000	1	0%
Village Micro Fund	$25,000	1	3%
Urban Progress Alliance	$25,000	1	n/a
Front Line Farming	$25,000	1	1%
Montezuma School to Farm Project	$25,000	1	7%
San Antonio District	$25,000	1	n/a
Kids Above Everything	$25,000	1	6%
SchoolSeed Foundation	$23,500	1	1%
Confluence Colorado	$21,000	1	n/a
Fruitful Commons	$20,000	1	7%
San Diego Food System Alliance	$20,000	1	2%
Friendship of Women Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Ag & Food Lab	$20,000	1	9%
Building Education	$20,000	1	11%
Sprout City Farms	$20,000	1	2%
Savannah-Chatham County Public School System	$20,000	1	n/a
Appetite for Change Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Urban Growers Collective Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Zintkala Luta	$15,000	1	8%
City of Dreams	$15,000	1	2%
Kindness Farm	$15,000	1	5%
Save Institute Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Black Lives Veggies the Non-Profite	$15,000	1	n/a
Good Journey Development Foundation	$15,000	1	6%
Terra BIRDS	$15,000	1	3%
Wayne-Westland Community School District	$14,000	1	n/a
Poudre High School Impala Fund Inc	$12,684	1	n/a
Urban Health Partnerships Inc	$12,000	1	1%
Economic Opportunity for Savannah- Chatham County Area Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Freedom Bound Center	$10,000	1	1%
Talmar Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Painted Desert Demonstration Projects Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Darnall Charter School	$10,000	1	0%
Global One Urban Farming	$10,000	1	5%
Kaizen Food Rescue	$10,000	1	0%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia	$10,000	1	0%
A Farm Less Ordinary	$10,000	1	2%
Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision	$10,000	1	0%
Global Growers Network Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Spirit of the Sun Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Sproutin Up Corporation	$10,000	1	8%
Georgia Foundation for Agriculture Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Weecycle	$10,000	1	0%
Greenbriar Children's Center Inc	$8,000	1	1%
River Rouge School District	$8,000	1	n/a
Denver Public Schools Foundation	$7,500	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Big Green supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

Trailhead InstituteCO20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trailhead Institute · Patagoniaorg · The Denver Foundation · The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · Tides Center · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education

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.

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About Big Green

How much does Big Green give?: Big Green reported 40 itemized grants totaling $884,948, out of $964,748 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Big Green fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (37%), Education (15%), Environment (14%).
Who are Big Green's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Gardeneers ($225k), San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ($78k), Brownsville Wellness Coalition ($75k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Big Green?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trailhead Institute, Patagoniaorg, The Denver Foundation.
Where is Big Green based?: Big Green is based in CO.