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Community Alliance With Family Farmers

CAFF's mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. CAFF works with farmers, buyers and food advocates across the State of California.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
68
Itemized grants FY2024
48
Organizations funded FY2023
98%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$959k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,253
Organizations funded a year
37 to 48
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$7.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 98% of the organizations Community Alliance With Family Farmers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving65$944k98%
FY202348$372k98%
FY202137$185kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$240kEducation$68kInternational$41kEnvironment$32kCommunity Improvement$31kHealth$20kScience & Tech$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of California Davis$60,2531n/a
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno$46,00031%
Kitchen Table Advisors$37,94510%
Central California Environmental Justice Network$26,00010%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy$26,00010%
MMC Organic Farms$20,2001n/a
West County Community Farm LLC$20,0001n/a
Ferndale Farms LLC$20,0001n/a
Alejandro Salazar Aldana$20,0001n/a
Seven Moons Farm LLC$20,0001n/a
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All grantees of Community Alliance With Family Farmers by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of California Davis$60,2531n/a
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno$46,00031%
Kitchen Table Advisors$37,94510%
Central California Environmental Justice Network$26,00010%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy$26,00010%
MMC Organic Farms$20,2001n/a
West County Community Farm LLC$20,0001n/a
Ferndale Farms LLC$20,0001n/a
Alejandro Salazar Aldana$20,0001n/a
Seven Moons Farm LLC$20,0001n/a
Miguel Cisneros-Garcia$20,0001n/a
Benise Management LLC$20,0001n/a
Mei Huan Huang$20,0001n/a
Laguna Farm CSA Ignacio Romero$20,0001n/a
Papa Joe Farm$20,0001n/a
Products from Paradise$20,0001n/a
Three Springs Community Farm Foundation Inc$20,000114%
Burns Blossom Farm LLC$20,0001n/a
Avina Organic Farms$20,0001n/a
Tollgate Partners$20,0001n/a
Royal Blue Farms LLC$20,0001n/a
Cherta Farms Inc$20,0001n/a
Rainwater Ranch LLC$20,0001n/a
Lemonaid Farms$20,0001n/a
Abc Farms$20,0001n/a
Guan Huanlun$20,0001n/a
Vizcarra's Universities California Almonds Inc$20,0001n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$18,0001n/a
KB Farms LLC$15,0001n/a
Jonathan Gonzales$15,0001n/a
Apple Creek Vineyard Farm$15,0001n/a
Ag Family Farm LLC$15,0001n/a
Dream Farm$10,1001n/a
Rural Communities Resource Center$10,000115%
R&R Family Farms LLC$10,0001n/a
Ghuman Farm LLC Nirvair Singh Ghuman$10,0001n/a
Derrick Keith Pearson Foundation Inc$9,0001n/a
Berkeley Basket Csa$9,0001n/a
The Farmer Ken LLC$9,0001n/a
Metitlan AgriCultural Space$9,0001n/a
Seed - Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development$9,0001n/a
Sacred Transformations LLC$9,0001n/a
Shift Our Ways Collective$8,00013%
Ecocenter Inc$7,65010%
Common Vision$7,50011%
Donorschooseorg$7,50010%
Solutions for Urban Agriculture$7,50011%
Farm to Fight Hunger$7,50012%
Eco Urban Gardens$7,50014%
Renaissance Parents of Success$7,50011%
Alma Backyard Farm$7,50010%
McGee Avenue Baptist Church$7,5001n/a
Growing Roots$7,50018%
Sacred Heart Community Service$7,50010%
Pilz Produce at Hillcrest$7,5001n/a
American Friends Service Committee$7,5001n/a
Special Service for Groups Inc$5,00110%
Coyo Organico Farm$5,0001n/a
Unearthed Farm LLC dba Harvest Fields Organic Farm$5,0001n/a
Roby Consulting Group dba Roby Ranch$5,0001n/a
Miguel Avendano Reyes$5,0001n/a
Kay Lee Farm$5,0001n/a
Providence International Enterprises$5,00010%
Pollinate Farm & Garden LLC$5,0001n/a
Deep Roots Farm CA$5,0001n/a
Peach Tree Lane LLC Miles Daniel Garrett$5,0001n/a

Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($537k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Community Alliance With Family Farmers supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno: $46,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKitchen Table Advisors: $37,945 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCentral California Environmental Justice Network: $26,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $26,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThree Springs Community Farm Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRural Communities Resource Center: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetShift Our Ways Collective: $8,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEcocenter Inc: $7,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Vision: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolutions for Urban Agriculture: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFarm to Fight Hunger: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEco Urban Gardens: $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRenaissance Parents of Success: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAlma Backyard Farm: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrowing Roots: $7,500 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSacred Heart Community Service: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $5,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence International Enterprises: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The California Wellness Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Public Health Institute · Clif Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · East Bay Community 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.

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About Community Alliance With Family Farmers

How much does Community Alliance With Family Farmers give?
Community Alliance With Family Farmers reported 68 itemized grants totaling $959,149, out of $1,892,899 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Community Alliance With Family Farmers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (69%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Education (4%).
Who are Community Alliance With Family Farmers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: University of California Davis ($60k), Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno ($46k), Kitchen Table Advisors ($38k).
Does Community Alliance With Family Farmers fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 98% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Alliance With Family Farmers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The California Wellness Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is Community Alliance With Family Farmers based?
Community Alliance With Family Farmers is based in CA.

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 150 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.

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