California · Public charity
Food Literacy Center
Our mission is to inspire kids to eat their vegetables. We teach children in low-income elementary schools cooking, nutrition, gardening, and active play to improve our health, environment, and economy.
- $22k
- Granted FY2021
- 2
- Grants FY2021
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2021
- $15,625
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $15,625
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2020 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
- Total assets, FY2021
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Food Literacy Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 2 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $138k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento City Unified School District | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project | $40,625 | 2 | 2% |
| La Familia Counseling Center Inc | $32,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Health Education Council | $16,250 | 2 | 0% |
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: The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
How this is measured
About Food Literacy Center
- How much does Food Literacy Center give?
- Food Literacy Center reported 2 grants totaling $21,875 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
- What does Food Literacy Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (90%), Health (10%).
- Who are Food Literacy Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Sacramento City Unified School District ($70k), Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project ($41k), La Familia Counseling Center Inc ($33k).
- Does Food Literacy Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Food Literacy Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
- Where is Food Literacy Center based?
- Food Literacy Center is based in CA.
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