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FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC
Preserve rhode island farmland and our agricultural and culinary knowledge.
$1.2M
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
4
Communities
$317k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Food & Nutrition$4.5MHuman Services$1.0MArts & Culture$856kPublic Safety & Disaster$574kEducation$139kOther$63k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
fini
2019
fini
2020
fini
2021
fini
2022
fini
2023
gusnip
2024
gusnip
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $324k
- $250k+3 grants · $832k
$250,991
Median grant
4
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ME FEDERATION OF FARMERS MARKETS$316,613
- GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$264,878
- NH FOOD BANK$250,991
- VT NOFA$216,467
- CT END HUNGER$107,139
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
0
Total granted
$7.1M
$0
Still filing today
78%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterEducationOther
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
- MFME FEDERATION OF FARMERS MARKETS7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +353% · 84% of their budget
- NFNH FOOD BANK7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
- VNVT NOFA7× · 2018–2024 · $856k · revenue +115%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
The maine organic farmers and gardeners association is transforming our food system by supporting farmers, empowering people to feed their communities and advocating for an organic future.
Food & Nutrition
2
Northeast Organic Farming Association
Through education and advocacy nofa/ mass promotes organic agriculture to expand the production and availability of nutrious food from living soil for the health of individuals, communities and the planet.
Food & Nutrition
3
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
Food & Nutrition
4
New England Farm Workers Council Inc
Human welfare organization
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5
Maine Farm Bureau Association
An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.
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6
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Food & Nutrition
7
Maine Coast Fishermens Assn
We work to ensure that fishermen have a community infrastructure and the environmental resources to maintain maines coastal cultural identity and sustain a vibrant working waterfront for each generation of maine fishermen through…
Environment
8
Northeast Organic Farming Association
NOFA-NJ is an Association of consumers, farmers and gardeners, creating a regionally based organic agricultural system which is economically viable.
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9
Massachusetts Farm Bureau Preservation
Preservation of agricultural land.
Food & Nutrition
10
MaineHealth
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
Health
11
University of Maine Foundation
Fundraising and endowment management for the benefit of the University of Maine
Education
12
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation
Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Organic Farming Assocvt and the most unlike its peers is Maine Farmland Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Food & Nutrition$4,472,827Human Services$1,026,286Arts & Culture$856,255Public Safety & Disaster$574,475Education$139,296Other$63,296
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Northeast Organic Farming — 31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FF REALTY CORPORATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 813494843 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FF REALTY CORPORATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc?
Find your warmest path to Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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