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· Public charity

Farm Forward Inc

To develop and implement strategies to promote more humane, sustainable, community-friendly food choices and advance animal agriculture with special attention to animal protection issues.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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.

Philanthropy$263kFood & Nutrition$100kAnimals$44kEducation$23kReligion$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $44,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $112,948 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $68,948 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$958k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A JUST WORLD$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$10,000
CREATUREKIND$9,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEANTOWN JEWISH GARDENS: $14k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE: $6k → 11%EVANGELICALS FOR SOCIAL ACTION: $25k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $16k → 11%FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $13k → 14%EMANUEL J FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE TRUST: $263k → 14%CREATUREKIND: $9k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10k → 12%A JUST WORLD: $25k → 12%GROWTORAH: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $6k → 14%A JUST WORLD: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
DC

Grants abroad, by region: $17k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$17k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: VET CARE & EDUCATION

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field

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.

1
A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
2
Farm Forward Inc

To develop and implement strategies to promote more humane, sustainable, community-friendly food choices and advance animal agriculture with special attention to animal protection issues.

Animals
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
5
Animal Alliance Asia

Our mission is to build and mobilize a community of local animal justice and vegan advocates across Asia to create waves of impactful actions for a better world for farmed animals.

Animals
6
A Well-Fed World

A Well-Fed World is a plant-based hunger relief and climate advocacy organization. We nourish people in need strengthen global food security and promote plant-based feeding and farming solutions that uplift marginalized communities and…

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Project Association

FarmSTAND uses legal advocacy and public education to address the environmental, labor, and animal welfare impacts of industrial agriculture and to support the viability of small family farmers.

Crime & Legal
8
Faunalytics

Empower animal advocates with research, insights, and strategies that maximize their effectiveness to end animal suffering.

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9
Center for Jewish Food Ethics

Jewish veg's mission is to encourage and help jews to embrace plant-based diets as an expression of the jewish values of compassion for animals, concern for health, and care for the environment.

Food & Nutrition
10
Animal Equality

Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.

Animals
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Institute of Food Technologists

As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Food Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Emanuel J Friedman Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EMANUEL J FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE TRUST: $262,500 · Public BenefitTHE EMANUEL J FRIEDMAN CHARITABLE TRUSTEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationEASTERN UNIVERSITYCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNI…GANEI BEANTOWN INC: $13,620 · EducationGANEI BEANTOWN INCUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENV…A JUST WORLD: $45,000 · AnimalsA JUST WORL…UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $16,000 · OtherCREATUREKIND: $9,000 · OtherGROWTORAH INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $6,250 · EnvironmentFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE: $12,500 · EmploymentINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $6,250 · Food & Nutrition
Public Benefit$262,500Education$71,620Animals$45,000Other$25,000Environment$16,250Employment$12,500Food & Nutrition$6,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA JUST WORLD: $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANEI BEANTOWN INC: $13,620 over 1y, 31% of budgetFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATUREKIND: $9,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $6,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Farm Forward Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farm Forward Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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