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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 68 grants below total $959,149 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,892,899 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $933,750 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $674k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC Regents | $60,253 |
| Multiplier | $37,945 |
| Central CA Environmental Justice Network | $26,000 |
| Centro Binacional de Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno | $26,000 |
| Central Coast Aliance United for a Sustainable Economy | $26,000 |
| MMC Organic Farms | $20,200 |
| BURNS BLOSSOM FARM LLC | $20,000 |
| Rainwater Ranch LLC | $20,000 |
| Products from Paradise | $20,000 |
| Ferndale Farms LLC | $20,000 |
| VIZCARRA'S UNIVERSITIES CALIFORNIA ALMONDS INC | $20,000 |
| Guan Huanlun | $20,000 |
| Papa Joe Farm | $20,000 |
| Three Springs Community Farm Foundation Inc | $20,000 |
| Royal Blue Farms LLC | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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.
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.
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.
Urban Tilth is a California nonprofit organization committed to educate diverse communities about organic gardening and to support a network of gardens dedicated to sustainable, local food production. Urban Tilth insipires, hires, and…
To improve the living standards of low income, unskilled workers in silicon valley by offering education in ecological landscaping and cooperative business models
Valley verde increases self-sufficiency, health, and resilience, through a culturally informed community based food system to promote food justice.
prove asset to organic food
We provide education regarding Agriculture and nutrition for underserved individuals and communities. Last year we engages and taught over 50 children from 3-13 years of age from such communities. As well as provided discounted rated for…
Agricultural education
Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security
Part III Program Services Accomplishments - Arif Urban Agrarian Collective (AUAC) provides urban agriculture education to the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego.
Coastal roots farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient jewish wisdom.
Carrying out the policy of Californias to support socially disadvantaged farmers through The Farmers Equity Act and with pending state funding, the mission of Ujamaa Farmer Collective Association is empowering historically underserved…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shift Our Ways Collective and the most unlike its peers is Renaissance Parents of Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 150 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.
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: 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
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 Community Alliance With Family Farmers 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.