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Center for Science in the Public Interest
The CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST is america's food and health watchdog.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $408,577 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $420,577 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,000 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER | $60,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| INTERFAITH PUBLIC HEALTH NETWORK (FISCAL SPONSOR CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY | $49,450 |
| SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER | $48,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $37,151 |
| COALITION FOR CARCERAL NUTRITION (FISCAL SPONSOR FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES | $36,976 |
| CHARLES COUNTY NAACP (FISCAL SPONSOR YOUTH EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC) | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER | $20,000 |
| END HUNGER CONNECTICUT | $20,000 |
| CHILIS ON WHEELS (FISCAL SPONSOR A WELL-FED WORLD) | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Center for Science in the Public Interest’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 1% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 4% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
- TCThe Center for Black Health and Equity3× · 2021–2024 · $620k · revenue +176%
THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $410k · revenue +125%- BABAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $313k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- PHPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $534k · revenue +46%
- FIFLORIDA IMPACT INCone grant, 2021 · $141k · revenue -30% · 46% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -48%
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.
Advancing equitable access to nutritious food for all in America to lead healthy lives.
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.
The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…
CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.
Advancing Health Equity Through Food System Change We are a nonprofit advancing food equity and nutrition security by working at the intersection of public health, education and policy. We start with dairy because of its outsized impact on…
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…
Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
Health in Partnership transforms the field of public health to center health equity and builds collective power with social justice movements.
To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
A public health initiative working to make healthy local foods more available, more accessible, and more familiar by connecting local growers with local consumers as well as providing education around local food, nutrition, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Educational Services Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
60 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. 60 of the 66 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 The Center for Black Health and Equity ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Real Food for Kids ↗
- Who funds MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EQUITY ALLIANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Good Work Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRITHRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Keep Your Faith Corporation Inc ↗
- Who funds DC Greens Inc ↗
- Who funds United Parents and Students ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Healthy Schools Campaign ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE I ↗
- Who funds URBAN HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds END HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
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: American Heart Association Inc · Cspi Action Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Share Our Strength · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Fair Food Network Inc · Tides Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · UNFI Foundation · Food Research & Action Center · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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 Center for Science in the Public Interest 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.
- Upstream Public Health — 51% of income from government
- Afrithrive Inc — 41% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% 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.