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Rhode Island · Public charity

Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc

Preserve rhode island farmland and our agricultural and culinary knowledge. Build healthier communities. Increase access to fresher, tastier food. Improve impact of food production and distribution on our environment. Strengthen community-based businesses.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$250,991
Largest grant, FY2024
$316,613
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$20M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$1.2M0%
FY20235$1.1M20%
FY20225$1.1M0%
FY20217$872k0%
FY20208$1.7M25%
FY20196$1.1M17%
FY20185$185kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$6.0MHousing & Shelter$898kEducation$148kSocial Science$54k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets$2,233,635784%
Ff Realty Corporation$1,327,6032100%
New Hampshire Catholic Charities$1,026,28670%
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont$856,25575%
End Hunger Connecticut Inc$574,475714%
Maine Farmland Trust$520,14753%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$391,44220%
Trustees of Tufts College$139,29620%
University of Connecticut$63,2962n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Federation of Farmers Markets: $2,233,635 over 7y, 84% of budgetFf Realty Corporation: $1,327,603 over 2y, 100% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $1,026,286 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNortheast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: $856,255 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetEnd Hunger Connecticut Inc: $574,475 over 7y, 14% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $520,147 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $391,442 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $139,296 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 8.

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How do I get to Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc?

Find your warmest path to Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc

How much does Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc give?
Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc reported 5 grants totaling $1,156,088 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (85%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Education (2%).
Who are Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Maine Federation of Farmers Markets ($2.2M), Ff Realty Corporation ($1.3M), New Hampshire Catholic Charities ($1.0M).
Does Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc based?
Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc is based in RI.

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 9 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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