· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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- NCNOURISH COLORADO8× · 2017–2024 · $549k · revenue +61%
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
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.
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.
A healthy community where everyone has access to quality, nutritious, healthy food can be achieved through a synergistic relationship between stores and the communities they serve. Corner stores/community markets can serve as an important…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food to cultivate community and alleviate hunger. through community food access, agriculture, education, and strategic partnerships, we work toward a…
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,…
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
151 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fair Food Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fair Food Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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