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Food & Water Action Fund

FOOD & WATER ACTION FUND (fwa) supports the education work of food & water watch. Fwa lobbies and advocates for common sense policies that result in healthy safe food, access to safe and affordable drinking water and a liveable climate.

$90k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$90,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Food & Water Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22
EnvironmentOther
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 arriving1$90k100%
FY20221$25k100%
FY20201$20k100%
FY20191$20k100%
FY20184$231kn/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.

Environment$321kFood & Nutrition$65k

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
Colorado Rising$190,000115%
Bryson Gillette LLC$90,0001n/a
Food & Water Action Fund$25,00012%
Green Advocacy Project$21,00010%
Food & Water Action Cal PAC$20,0001n/a
Consumer Advocates Against the Water Bond$10,0001n/a
Coalition to Protect Slo County$10,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

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How do I get to Food & Water Action Fund?

Find your warmest path to Food & Water Action Fund 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 Food & Water Action Fund

How much does Food & Water Action Fund give?
Food & Water Action Fund reported 1 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Food & Water Action Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (83%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
Who are Food & Water Action Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Colorado Rising ($190k), Bryson Gillette LLC ($90k), Food & Water Action Fund ($25k).
Does Food & Water Action Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Food & Water Action Fund based?
Food & Water Action Fund is based in DC.

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 8 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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