· Private foundation
Chipotle Cultivate Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $189,935 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $130,754 |
| NIMAN RANCH NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| ECOCENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| RANDALLS ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UUNCHARTED2× · 2019–2021 · $470k · revenue -89%
- NRNIMAN RANCH NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +37%
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA2× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MBMENTOR BKB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $24k
- IOINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -64%
CITY HARVEST INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
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.
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.
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Institute's mission is to research, develop, practice, and disseminate sustainable strategies and techniques for conserving ecosystems, agriculture, and rural communities. institute will achieve this mission by using its livestock, land,…
The national farmers union foundation's (nfuf) mission is to empower people to educate our youth, neighbors, media and policymakers on the social, economic and cooperative contributions of family agriculture.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
To increase awareness and understanding of agriculture among california educators and students.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNCHARTED ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NIMAN RANCH NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECOCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds RANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chipotle Cultivate Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chipotle Cultivate Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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