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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.

$421k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$60k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.9MHealth$1.9MEducation$243kCommunity Improvement$235kHuman Services$144kCivil Rights$110kYouth Development$86kCrime & Legal$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $408,577, the rows itemized in this filing. The $420,577 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,000 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$37,151
Median grant
11
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMORY UNIVERSITY$60,000
LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PG CHANGEMAKERS (FISCAL SPONSOR MISSIONEDGE): $59k → 11%ROCK STEADY FARM (FISCAL SPONSOR GOOD WORK INSTITUTE): $60k → 20%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $60k → 20%YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $20k → 16%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $11k → 17%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
ND
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
AR
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Center for Science in the Public Interest’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 1% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 4%.

Center for Science in the Public Interestlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 30 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
31

Total granted

$4.4M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+27%

Still filing today

90%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • TC
    The Center for Black Health and Equity
    3× · 2021–2024 · $620k · revenue +176%
  • THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $410k · revenue +125%
  • BA
    BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $313k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • PH
    PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $534k · revenue +46%
  • FI
    FLORIDA IMPACT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $141k · revenue -30% · 46% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -48%
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
Partnership for a Healthier America Inc

Advancing equitable access to nutritious food for all in America to lead healthy lives.

Youth Development
2
Center for Science in the Public Interest

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics

The International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics IC-FOODS has a stated mission to create the foundations for global decentralized traceable transparent and trustworthy food systems. We develop shared language…

Food & Nutrition
4
CommonHealth Action

CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.

Health
5
Switch4Good

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…

Animals
6
Eat Real Certified Inc

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…

Public Benefit
7
Fair Food Network Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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9
Equitable Food Initiative

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.

Human Services
10
Health in Partnership

Health in Partnership transforms the field of public health to center health equity and builds collective power with social justice movements.

Health
11
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse

To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
HealthImpact

To shape health care through workforce strategy, stakeholder convening, and policy advocacy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 66 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
40/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Center for Black Health and Equity: $620,000 · HealthThe Center for Black Health and EquityPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $534,412 · HealthPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATESTHE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $409,744 · HealthTHE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATIONBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $312,667 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $235,734 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $190,000 · HealthTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC+8 more: $444,103 · Health+8 moreCHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY BIBLE: $187,950 · OtherCHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY B…EQUITY ALLIANCE GROUP INC: $128,250 · OtherEQUITY ALLIANCE GROUP INCSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $122,538 · OtherSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTERMARYLAND STATE CONFERENCE NAACP: $114,813 · OtherMARYLAND STATE CONFERENCE N…APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $87,151 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $74,981 · OtherState University of Iowa: $60,000 · OtherGood Work Institute Inc: $120,000 · OtherGood Work Institute IncMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $83,679 · OtherMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $208,558 · OtherMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUNDSANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $116,011 · OtherSANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPME…PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY: $74,800 · OtherHealthy Schools Campaign: $82,500 · OtherEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC: $70,126 · Other+6 more: $134,326 · Other+6 moreDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $129,999 · EducationDRAKE UNIVER…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $124,921 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…Keep Your Faith Corporation Inc: $114,115 · EducationKeep Your Fa…United Parents and Students: $93,500 · EducationUnited Paren…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $84,409 · EducationJOHNS HOPKIN…MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $64,974 · EducationMERRIMACK CO…Emory University: $60,000 · EducationEmory Univer…Teachers College Columbia University: $29,994 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationAFRITHRIVE INC: $119,920 · Community ImprovementGREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC: $118,872 · Community ImprovementDC Greens Inc: $94,653 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $74,750 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $36,976 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC: $23,831 · Community ImprovementReal Food for Kids: $214,728 · Youth DevelopmentZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $117,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT: $86,100 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $117,500 · Food & NutritionCHESAPEAKE INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE I: $75,000 · Food & NutritionDETROIT FOOD POLICY COUNCIL: $50,001 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $45,000 · Food & NutritionNEW ORLEANS FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE: $32,953 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL: $29,857 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Advocates Inc: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $12,000 · Food & NutritionFLORIDA IMPACT INC: $140,803 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $60,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $50,000 · Civil RightsNORTH DAKOTA HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION: $30,000 · Civil Rights
Health$2,746,660Other$1,665,683Education$721,912Community Improvement$469,002Youth Development$443,328Food & Nutrition$432,311Civil Rights$280,803

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 budgetThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $620,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $534,412 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $409,744 over 2y, 10% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $312,667 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $235,734 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReal Food for Kids: $214,728 over 3y, 13% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $208,558 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $190,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA IMPACT INC: $140,803 over 1y, 46% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $129,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUITY ALLIANCE GROUP INC: $128,250 over 2y, 52% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $124,921 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $122,538 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGood Work Institute Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAFRITHRIVE INC: $119,920 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetGREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC: $118,872 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $117,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $117,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $116,011 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetKeep Your Faith Corporation Inc: $114,115 over 2y, 40% of budgetDC Greens Inc: $94,653 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Parents and Students: $93,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT: $86,100 over 1y, 23% of budgetHEALTHY SAVANNAH INC: $85,023 over 1y, 41% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $84,409 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $83,679 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHealthy Schools Campaign: $82,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $74,981 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY: $74,800 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $74,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO: $70,098 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $64,974 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUPSTREAM PUBLIC HEALTH: $49,627 over 1y, 61% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIllinois Public Health Institute: $39,355 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $38,362 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $36,976 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE: $32,953 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $29,994 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL: $29,857 over 1y, 28% of budgetYOUTH EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% 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.

American Heart Associ…Cspi Action FundWK Kellogg FoundationShare Our StrengthMAZON A Jewish Respon…Amalgamated Charitabl…Fair Food Network IncTides FoundationThe Rockefeller Found…UNFI FoundationFood Research & Actio…The Robert Wood Johns…
American Heart Association IncTX40.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Center for Science in the Public Interest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Science in the Public Interest. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 41%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home