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Big Green

Big Green believes growing food changes lives.

$965k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $884,948, the rows itemized in this filing. The $964,748 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,800 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $686k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $183k
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAISD Foundation$78,000
Los Cabos Childrens Foundation$55,448
Gardopia Gardens$50,000
Outer Haven$33,500
Good Neighbor Settlement House$26,000
St Sabina Church$26,000
Land Together$26,000
Urban Symbiosis$26,000
San Antonio District$25,000
Montezuma School to Farm Project$25,000
Brownsville Wellness Coalition Inc$25,000
Village Micro Fund$25,000
Revival of Culture Arts$25,000
Family Action Network Movement Inc$25,000
Gardeneers$25,000
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 (FY22–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Los Cabos Childrens Foundation: $55k → 6%FMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS: $10k → 11%Greenbriar Children's Center Inc: $8k → 16%Urban Symbiosis: $26k → 8%FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50k → 12%KIDS ABOVE EVERYTHING: $25k → 12%A Farm Less Ordinary: $10k → 4%TALMAR: $10k → 11%Good Neighbor Settlement House: $26k → 23%WEECYCLE: $10k → 8%URBAN SYMBIOSIS: $25k → 12%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $20k → 11%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$543k · 8 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
38

Total granted

$543k
$917k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $697k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • G
    GARDENEERS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +60%
  • BW
    BROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +41%
  • US
    Urban Symbiosis
    2× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +393%

Funded once

  • FN
    FMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +157%
  • HH
    HAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +364%
  • KC
    KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +42%
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
Sustainable Growers
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2
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
3
We Sow We Grow Project

The We Sow We Grow Project is dedicated to the furtherance of gardening and farming in an urban landscape through education and service. Fresh fruits and vegetables are possible to grow for all and we seek to remove the fear and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
5
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
6
Urban Harvest Stl

Urban Harvest STL builds community around inclusive and resilient local food systems.

Food & Nutrition
7
Cultivating Community

To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.

Food & Nutrition
8
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
9
Urban Harvest Inc

Urban Harvest is transforming food accessibility in Greater Houston through partnerships with local farmers and gardeners, vibrant Farmers Markets and mobile markets, and comprehensive garden education. Our goal is not just to improve, but…

Environment
10
The Neighborhood Garden Project

We cultivate people through presence, soil, and shared work. The Neighborhood Garden Project exists to help individuals reconnect with identity, healing, and belonging by creating thoughtful spaces where people return to who they are…

Human Services
11
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network

DBCFSN works to build self-reliance and food security in Detroits black community by influencing public policy promoting urban agriculture, promoting healthy eating and encouraging youth to pursue careers in food related fields.

Food & Nutrition
12
UpRoot Colorado

UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kindness Farm; the most unlike its peers is Black Seeds. 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

66 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. 66 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
35/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEOUTER HAVEN: $33,500 · OtherMOHAMMED SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA LTD: $30,000 · OtherST SABINA CHURCH: $26,000 · OtherMONTBELLO 2020: $25,000 · OtherLIGHT CARRIER: $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION: $25,000 · OtherMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $25,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $25,000 · OtherURBAN PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $25,000 · OtherSan Antonio District: $25,000 · OtherHIP HOP IS GREEN: $40,000 · OtherHIP HOP IS GREENOURSPACE WORLD INC: $30,000 · OtherBIG HEROES INC: $50,000 · OtherBIG HEROES INCLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM: $36,000 · Other+15 more: $207,684 · Other+15 moreGARDENEERS: $225,000 · EducationGARDENEERSHAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC: $50,000 · EducationHAND HEART AND SOUL PR…KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $50,000 · EducationKERES CHILDREN'S LEARN…AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationAUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATIO…Black Sustainability Inc: $25,000 · EducationBlack Sustainability I…VILLAGE MICRO FUND: $25,000 · EducationVILLAGE MICRO FUNDBUILDING EDUCATION: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION: $75,000 · Food & NutritionBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS…THE CALVARY GROUP: $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CALVARY GROUPBig Green: $37,500 · Food & NutritionBig GreenJUST ROOTS JUST ROOTS CHICAGO: $30,000 · Food & NutritionJUST ROOTS JUST ROOT…BLACK SEEDS: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBLACK SEEDSFront Line Farming: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFront Line FarmingSan Diego Food System Alliance: $20,000 · Food & NutritionAG & FOOD LAB: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSPROUT CITY FARMS: $20,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionKINDNESS FARM: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreFMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS: $60,000 · Human ServicesFMW NONPROFIT S…Los Cabos Children's Foundation: $55,448 · Human ServicesLos Cabos Child…Urban Symbiosis: $51,000 · Human ServicesUrban SymbiosisGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $26,000 · Human ServicesGood Neighbor S…Kids Above Everything: $25,000 · Human ServicesKids Above Ever…APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAPPETITE FOR CH…GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesTALMAR INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $10,000 · Human ServicesWEECYCLE: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesGardopia Gardens: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHINK GREEN INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE HEALTHY EARTH ORGANIZATION INC: $26,000 · EnvironmentMONTEZUMA SCHOOL TO FARM PROJECT: $25,000 · EnvironmentFRUITFUL COMMONS: $20,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHWEST DETROIT ENVIRONMENTAL VISION: $10,000 · EnvironmentSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $78,000 · PhilanthropyST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · PhilanthropySchoolSeed Foundation: $23,500 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyREVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureZINTKALA LUTA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$678,184Education$441,000Food & Nutrition$387,500Human Services$290,448Environment$161,000Philanthropy$134,000Arts & Culture$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGARDENEERS: $225,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $78,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION: $75,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS: $60,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLos Cabos Children's Foundation: $55,448 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUrban Symbiosis: $51,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBIG HEROES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetREVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTS: $50,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetHAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGardopia Gardens: $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIP HOP IS GREEN: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBig Green: $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM: $36,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJUST ROOTS JUST ROOTS CHICAGO: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOURSPACE WORLD INC: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEALTHY EARTH ORGANIZATION INC: $26,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBLACK SEEDS: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBlack Sustainability Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVILLAGE MICRO FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFront Line Farming: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMONTEZUMA SCHOOL TO FARM PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetKids Above Everything: $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation: $23,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRUITFUL COMMONS: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetSan Diego Food System Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFriendship of Women Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAG & FOOD LAB: $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBUILDING EDUCATION: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSPROUT CITY FARMS: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZINTKALA LUTA: $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCITY OF DREAMS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKINDNESS FARM: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTerra BIRDS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetURBAN HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR SAVANNAH- CHATHAM COUNTY AREA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FREEDOM BOUND CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTALMAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

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 InstitutePatagoniaorgThe Denver FoundationThe Sprouts Healthy C…The Colorado Health F…The Schmidt Family Fo…Solutions Project IncTides CenterAmalgamated Charitabl…Clif Family FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Brownsville Foundatio…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Big Green funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Green. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Talmar Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Ourspace World Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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.

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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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