How much does Ecology Center give?

Ecology Center reported 50 grants totaling $10,789,057 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ecology Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).

Who are Ecology Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Heart of the City Farmers Market ($7.7M), Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association ($7.6M), Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc ($4.1M).

Does Ecology Center fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ecology Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, California Association of Food Banks, The California Endowment.

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California · Public charity

Ecology Center

Inspiring and building a sustainable, healthy, and just future for the east bay, california, and beyond.

$11M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2024: 51
Organizations funded FY2023: 18%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $43,300
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,905,840
Organizations funded a year: 34 to 51; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $8.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Ecology Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	50	$11M	2%
FY2023	51	$8.8M	18%
FY2022	46	$7.9M	7%
FY2021	45	$6.2M	20%
FY2020	38	$3.1M	11%
FY2019	35	$2.7M	6%
FY2018	34	$2.3M	12%
FY2017	34	$2.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$44M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Heart of the City Farmers Market	$7,698,404	8	66%
Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association	$7,582,641	8	32%
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc	$4,057,050	8	43%
Alchemist CDC	$3,440,094	8	64%
Urban Village Farmers' Mkt Ass	$3,230,597	8	n/a
Agricultural Institute of Marin	$3,059,950	8	15%
Sustainable Economic Enterprises of la Dba Food Access Los Angeles	$2,655,541	8	20%
Agriculture and Land Based Training Association	$1,436,764	8	11%
North Coast Growers Association	$1,245,874	8	24%
Petaluma People Services Center	$1,054,721	8	5%

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All grantees of Ecology Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Heart of the City Farmers Market	$7,698,404	8	66%
Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association	$7,582,641	8	32%
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc	$4,057,050	8	43%
Alchemist CDC	$3,440,094	8	64%
Urban Village Farmers' Mkt Ass	$3,230,597	8	n/a
Agricultural Institute of Marin	$3,059,950	8	15%
Sustainable Economic Enterprises of la Dba Food Access Los Angeles	$2,655,541	8	20%
Agriculture and Land Based Training Association	$1,436,764	8	11%
North Coast Growers Association	$1,245,874	8	24%
Petaluma People Services Center	$1,054,721	8	5%
Chico State Enterprises	$918,776	8	0%
North Coast Opportunities Inc	$833,159	8	1%
Santa Barbara Cfma	$671,967	8	n/a
Model Neighborhood Program	$442,269	8	30%
San Joaquin Certified Farmers Market	$373,071	7	n/a
Ventura County Certified	$358,293	8	n/a
Fresh Approach	$352,976	6	3%
Foodwise Community	$345,673	8	4%
Modesto Certified Farmers Market	$339,923	8	27%
Everyones Harvest	$301,047	6	8%
North County Farmers Market Association	$275,542	8	29%
Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission	$267,041	8	0%
Visalia Farmers Market Assn	$233,353	8	n/a
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance	$213,013	4	8%
Community Partners	$211,303	7	0%
Erin Tormey Dba Coastside Farmers' Markets	$199,418	8	n/a
San Diego County Farm Bureau	$196,991	6	9%
Palm Springs Cultural Center	$170,711	8	2%
Mandela Foods Cooperative	$136,017	2	n/a
Friends of Downtown Slo Inc	$101,759	3	74%
Jefferson Economic Development Institute	$101,484	8	2%
San Luis Obispo County Farmers Market Association Inc	$97,487	5	26%
Downtown Anaheim Association Fka Anaheim Center Association	$97,390	8	3%
Downtown Napa Farmers Market Corporation	$90,906	5	7%
Community Ventures	$90,650	5	13%
The Pacific Beach Community Development Corp	$76,634	4	5%
Route One Farmers Market	$72,075	5	17%
International Rescue Committee INC	$67,585	3	0%
Orange Home Grown Foundation Inc	$61,638	4	4%
Phelan Pinon Hills Csd	$55,568	8	n/a
Love Linda Vista Inc	$54,624	2	34%
Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice	$52,878	3	n/a
City Of Rialto	$48,518	4	n/a
Rural Human Services	$43,519	6	1%
Laytonville Farmers' Market	$43,192	3	n/a
April Verhoef Dba From the Farmhouse	$37,699	4	n/a
El Dorado County Farm Trails Assocation	$37,156	5	n/a
Sunday Westchester Farmers Market	$35,496	3	12%
Food Shed Cooperative Inc	$32,527	2	n/a
City of Redlands	$32,122	3	n/a
Helendale Community Services	$25,506	3	n/a
Local Roots Dba Foragers Market	$23,994	2	n/a
29 Palms Certified Farmers Market	$23,918	2	n/a
Acta Non Verba	$23,345	2	n/a
Turlock Certified Farmers Market	$18,062	2	12%
Pinedorado Lions Foundation	$12,740	2	36%
San Francisco Parks Alliance	$12,631	1	0%
Heal Earth Project	$11,967	2	n/a
Fairfield Main Street Association	$11,898	2	3%
Collective Roots	$11,791	1	6%
Crescent City Downtown Divas	$11,587	2	n/a
Madera Coalition of Community Justice	$9,229	1	n/a
Latinas Unidas de Madera	$6,234	1	n/a
Orange Home Grown Inc	$5,793	1	n/a
Madera Community Hospital Founda Tion	$5,681	1	0%
Community Services Unlimited Inc	$5,527	1	1%

Ecology Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 42.

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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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA31.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Association of Food Banks · The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc

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 Ecology Center

How much does Ecology Center give?: Ecology Center reported 50 grants totaling $10,789,057 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ecology Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are Ecology Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Heart of the City Farmers Market ($7.7M), Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association ($7.6M), Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc ($4.1M).
Does Ecology Center fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ecology Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, California Association of Food Banks, The California Endowment.
Where is Ecology Center based?: Ecology Center is based in CA.