North Carolina · Public charity
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
The association's mission is helping the carolinas grow and eat local, organic food. We advocate, educate and build connections to create sustainable food systems in north and south carolina centered on local and organic agriculture.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $70,986
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $201,745
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Carolina Farm Stewardship Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k 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 | 17 | $1.5M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $1.5M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $2.0M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $502k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $959k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freshlist LLC | $1,081,601 | 5 | n/a |
| Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc | $729,693 | 3 | 56% |
| Sandhills Aginnovation Center Inc | $716,427 | 5 | 60% |
| Farmer Foodshare Inc | $463,014 | 4 | 10% |
| Working Landscapes | $370,744 | 5 | 16% |
| Conetoe Family Life Center Inc | $301,370 | 3 | 22% |
| The Abundance Foundation Inc | $288,135 | 1 | n/a |
| Feast Down East Inc | $285,408 | 5 | 17% |
| The Produce Box LLC | $242,316 | 3 | n/a |
| Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture | $208,395 | 5 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freshlist LLC | $1,081,601 | 5 | n/a |
| Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc | $729,693 | 3 | 56% |
| Sandhills Aginnovation Center Inc | $716,427 | 5 | 60% |
| Farmer Foodshare Inc | $463,014 | 4 | 10% |
| Working Landscapes | $370,744 | 5 | 16% |
| Conetoe Family Life Center Inc | $301,370 | 3 | 22% |
| The Abundance Foundation Inc | $288,135 | 1 | n/a |
| Feast Down East Inc | $285,408 | 5 | 17% |
| The Produce Box LLC | $242,316 | 3 | n/a |
| Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture | $208,395 | 5 | 4% |
| Men & Women United for Youth & Families Inc | $191,838 | 3 | 4% |
| A Better Chance a Better Community | $189,174 | 4 | n/a |
| Operation Speing Plant | $176,916 | 2 | n/a |
| Glow House Agriculture Inc | $168,648 | 2 | n/a |
| Wnc From the Ground Up | $139,219 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Third World Organizing | $134,557 | 2 | 1% |
| Southeast Raleigh Vicinity Emerging | $128,630 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Farmers Hub LLC | $95,071 | 2 | n/a |
| McDowell Lfac | $84,817 | 3 | 4% |
| T&A Barbee Family Farm LLC Dba Barbee Farms | $51,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Catawba Farm and Food Coalition | $31,840 | 1 | 15% |
| Greater Duffyfield Residents Council | $22,631 | 2 | n/a |
| Nc Budget & Tax Center | $20,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Partner Community Capital Inc | $19,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bountiful Cities Project | $15,502 | 1 | 3% |
| El Centro Hispano Inc | $15,295 | 1 | 0% |
| Pender County Christian Svcs Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $14,636 | 2 | 0% |
| Mecklenburg Food Policy Council | $13,897 | 1 | n/a |
| Davidson County Local Food Network | $12,417 | 1 | 5% |
| Seeds of Change Consulting | $9,360 | 1 | n/a |
| Sankofa Farms | $7,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Robeson County Church and Community Center | $5,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Ten Mothers Farm | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Lil Farm | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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.
Open a dossier: The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Mdc Inc · Blueprint North Carolina · Duke University · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Upstream Works
How this is measured
Compare Carolina Farm Stewardship Association with peer funders
About Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
- How much does Carolina Farm Stewardship Association give?
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association reported 17 itemized grants totaling $1,485,963, out of $1,975,271 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Carolina Farm Stewardship Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (96%), International (2%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Freshlist LLC ($1.1M), Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc ($730k), Sandhills Aginnovation Center Inc ($716k).
- Does Carolina Farm Stewardship Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carolina Farm Stewardship Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, The Cannon Foundation Inc.
- Where is Carolina Farm Stewardship Association based?
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association is based in NC.
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