· Public charity
Fair Food Network Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 143 grants below total $6,772,854 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,045,580 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $272,726 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 $10k23 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPARTAN STORES LLC | $1,787,228 |
| GLORY SUPERMARKET OUTER DRIVE | $288,829 |
| GLORY SUPERMARKET OAK PARK | $265,314 |
| GLORY SUPERMARKET HIGHLAND PARK | $243,274 |
| PARKWAY FOODS | $164,535 |
| EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION | $150,000 |
| DAMIANS CRAFT MEATS LLC | $147,000 |
| PICK & SAVE SUPERMARKET | $115,387 |
| TOWN & COUNTRY SUPERMARKET | $100,110 |
| UNIVERSITY FOODS | $96,423 |
| E&L SUPERMERCADO | $91,308 |
| PARK STREET MARKET | $86,570 |
| FOOD FARM MARKET | $80,636 |
| GREAT GIANT SUPERMARKET SAGINAW | $79,248 |
| MINNEAPOLIS MARRIOTT CITY CENTER | $65,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% 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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
138 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- EMEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
FIELD & FORK NETWORK6× · 2017–2024 · $853k · revenue +397% · 42% of their budget- URUPTOWN REINVESTMENT CORPORATION3× · 2017–2019 · $562k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SSSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue -13%
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $135k
- COCITY OF BOSTONone grant, 2019 · $105k
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.
To increase the consumption of and production of organically grown produce in our local region by supporting farms via events and markets where they can connect with new customers. additionally create and participate in educational…
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.
A public health initiative working to make healthy local foods more available, more accessible, and more familiar by connecting local growers with local consumers as well as providing education around local food, nutrition, and…
The hub city farmers' market is a nonprofit community organization that aims to increase supply, demand, and access to healthy, local foods in spartanburg, south carolina.
To create a thriving, equitable food system by working with local farms to provide crucial access to fresh produce to food insecure people in Cleveland County.
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.
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.
Our mission is to engage our neighbors around locally grown, fresh foods to support local farmers and food artisans, educate on healthy eating, and eliminate food insecurity in our charlotte community.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Food Works is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a sustainable food economy in Southern Illinois. Through farmer training and consumer education, Food Works promotes long-term farming networks that create healthy soils,…
Improving community health through local food access.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 344 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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: UNFI Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Wholesome Wave Inc · Clif Family Foundation · The Reinvestment Fund Inc · Farm Aid Inc · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Capital Impact Partners · Institute for Responsive Government Inc · Americana Foundation · Third Sector New England Inc · Center for Science in the Public Interest
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 Fair Food Network Inc 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.
- Oregon Community Food System Network — 100% of income from government
- Farmers Market Fund — 100% of income from government
- City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
- Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- Feeding Florida Inc — 32% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Inc — 1% of income from government
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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