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Food & Water Watch
FOOD & WATER WATCH conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes,…
- $404k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $375k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Food & Water Watch funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $375k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $214k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $418k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $255k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $399k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $159k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $207k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc | $342,750 | 8 | 4% |
| Food & Water Action Fund | $250,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Solon Center For Research And Publishing | $250,000 | 2 | 35% |
| Trade Justice Education Fund | $245,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Frack Action Fund Inc | $188,333 | 2 | 24% |
| Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc | $155,400 | 4 | 3% |
| Oil Change International Inc | $113,333 | 2 | 1% |
| No Cmp Corridor | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $92,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Green Advocacy Project | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc | $342,750 | 8 | 4% |
| Food & Water Action Fund | $250,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Solon Center For Research And Publishing | $250,000 | 2 | 35% |
| Trade Justice Education Fund | $245,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Frack Action Fund Inc | $188,333 | 2 | 24% |
| Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc | $155,400 | 4 | 3% |
| Oil Change International Inc | $113,333 | 2 | 1% |
| No Cmp Corridor | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $92,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Green Advocacy Project | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloud Mountain Foundation | $53,355 | 3 | 2% |
| Science & Environmental Health Network | $45,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Colorado Rising | $37,611 | 1 | 3% |
| Rethink Energy Florida Inc | $26,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Progressnow Colorado | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Center for International Environmental Law Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Citizen Engagement Lab Education Fund | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Physicians for Social Responsibility Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Healthy Gulf | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clean Water Fund | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Earth Ethics Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Food & Water Watch supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sustainable Markets Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Climate Imperative Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · Energy Action Fund
How this is measured
About Food & Water Watch
- How much does Food & Water Watch give?
- Food & Water Watch reported 9 itemized grants totaling $375,000, out of $403,751 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Food & Water Watch fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (71%), International (12%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are Food & Water Watch's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ($343k), Food & Water Action Fund ($250k), Solon Center For Research And Publishing ($250k).
- Does Food & Water Watch fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Food & Water Watch?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sustainable Markets Foundation, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
- Where is Food & Water Watch based?
- Food & Water Watch is based in DC.
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