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Food Co-Op Initiative

FOOD CO-OP INITIATIVE partners with communities to build a more just food system, providing critical support as they organize and open community-owned grocery stores.

$86k
Granted FY2017
8
Itemized grants FY2017
8
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$76k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$10,000
States reached, FY2017
7
Total assets, FY2017
$262k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marmaton Market$10,0001n/a
Fertile Ground Food Cooperative$10,0001n/a
North Flint Reinvestment$10,0001n/a
Southeast Memphis Food Co-Op$10,0001n/a
Whitewater Grocery Cooperative$10,0001n/a
Community Renewal International Inc$10,00010%
Bay City Food Cooperative$8,0001n/a
Mad River Market$8,0001n/a

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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 Co-Op Initiative

How much does Food Co-Op Initiative give?
Food Co-Op Initiative reported 8 itemized grants totaling $76,000, out of $86,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Food Co-Op Initiative fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (50%), Community Improvement (37%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Food Co-Op Initiative's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Marmaton Market ($10k), Fertile Ground Food Cooperative ($10k), North Flint Reinvestment ($10k).
Where is Food Co-Op Initiative based?
Food Co-Op Initiative is based in MN.

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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $7k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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