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Collaborative for Fresh Produce

Our mission is to source and distribute surplus produce to those in need through partnerships with growers and feeding america food banks.

$914k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$800k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.3M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
  • $250k+1 grant · $800k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY$800,000
COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK$30,000
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK$27,500
SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK$20,000
HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK$18,750
WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK$8,750
FOOD BANK OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS$8,750
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $83k → 19%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $28k → 19%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.
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$455k · 6 repeat orgs$834k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$455k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CB
    COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +9%
  • ST
    Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +5%
  • HP
    HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $34k · revenue +33%
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
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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2
South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement
3
Hays County Food Bank

To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.

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4
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
5
Concho Valley Regional Food Bank

To serve as a clerainghouse for salvage and surplus food that otherwise might be wasted.

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6
Foothills Food Bank

Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.

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7
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of North Alabama Inc

collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations

Food & Nutrition
9
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas

Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.

Food & Nutrition
10
Tillman County Food Bank Foundation
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11
San Antonio Food Bank

The mission of the san antonio food bank is to fight hunger in southwest texas through food distribution, programs, education and advocacy.

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12
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of West Central Texas; the most unlike its peers is The Community Food Bank of Victoria Dba Food Bank of the Golden Crescent. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $800,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INCHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $75,000 · OtherHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANKCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $120,000 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANKSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INCFood Bank of West Central Texas: $35,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of West Central …WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $35,000 · Food & NutritionWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BA…THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT: $33,750 · Food & NutritionTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF…Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc: $110,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast…
Other$875,000Food & Nutrition$303,750Human Services$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $800,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFood Bank of West Central Texas: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT: $33,750 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Feeding TexasTexas Bankers Foundat…First Community Found…Feeding AmericaBeaumont Foundation o…Marni & Morris Propp …Texas Mutual Insuranc…Charities Aid Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…The Houston Food BankVanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…
Feeding TexasTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Feeding Texas · Texas Bankers Foundation · First Community Foundation Inc · Feeding America · Beaumont Foundation of America · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Collaborative for Fresh Produce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collaborative for Fresh Produce. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 8 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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