· Public charity
Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc
Preserve rhode island farmland and our agricultural and culinary knowledge.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $324k
- $250k+3 grants · $832k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 94%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMaine Federation of Farmers Markets7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +353% · 84% of their budget
- NHNew Hampshire Catholic Charities7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
- NONORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT7× · 2018–2024 · $856k · revenue +113%
Funded once
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.
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.
Mass farmers markets partners wtih farmers, consumers, and communities to improve the health of individuals, strenghten community vitality, and enhance local farm viability through farmers markets.
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
NOFA-NJ is an Association of consumers, farmers and gardeners, creating a regionally based organic agricultural system which is economically viable. The corporation's goals are the following:- Increase the number of certified organic farms…
Preservation of agricultural land.
Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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
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.
- Who funds Maine Federation of Farmers Markets ↗
- Who funds FF REALTY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds END HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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