· Public charity
Cspi Action Fund
Identifying and passing policies aimed at increasing access to nutritious food, supporting healthy food and beverage choices, and ensuring a healthy diet for people across demographic groups.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $159,480 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $179,480 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER | $50,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE | $40,000 |
| INFERFAITH PUBLIC HEALTH NETWORK (FISCAL SPONSOR CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY | $36,600 |
| SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER | $20,000 |
| BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $12,880 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Cspi Action Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- COCHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY BIBLE3× · 2022–2025 · $393k
- TCThe Center for Black Health and Equity2× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +85%
- BABAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $96k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Food Advocates Incone grant, 2024 · $90k · revenue -44%
- PRPROFESSIONAL RESOURCE ASSOCIATES2× · 2023–2024 · $43k
- KYKeep Your Faith Corporation Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
Advancing equitable access to nutritious food for all in America to lead healthy lives.
The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.
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.
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…
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…
At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…
a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.
Reduce hunger by: creating access to high quality, desirable food and other essentials building a responsive regional hunger relief network and disrupting racism, because of its historical and structural connection to hunger and poverty.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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.
- Who funds The Center for Black Health and Equity ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Keep Your Faith Corporation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FARM TO TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds United Parents and Students ↗
- Who funds MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds A Well-Fed World ↗
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: Center for Science in the Public Interest · American Heart Association Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Share Our Strength · Food Research & Action Center · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Cspi Action Fund 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.
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