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Food Well Alliance

FOOD WELL ALLIANCE provides resources and support to local growers to connect and build healthier communities.

$551k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$5.1MYouth Development$103kCommunity Improvement$85kEnvironment$47kReligion$36kCrime & Legal$32kArts & Culture$30kEmployment$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $394k
$10,080
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALLEY VIEW CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST$36,000
SOUTHERNCAP MUSHROOMS$28,000
PATCHWORK CITY FARMS LLC$28,000
MY GREEN EARTH INC$24,000
TRUE ALCHEMY GARDENS INC$23,782
CITY OF AUSTELL$19,221
PENDERGRAST FARMS$17,580
WEST END COMMUNITY URBAN GARDENS$17,200
AMICO'S FARM$17,000
HEALING HIPSTER$15,700
ECOSYSTEM FARM LLC$13,800
GROW WHERE YOU ARE LLC$12,998
THE HARVEST PROJECT INC$11,600
OYUN BOTANICAL GARDENS$11,500
FRESH HARVEST INC$11,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS: $25k → 8%THE CENTER FOR CHILD: $25k → 8%THE CENTER FOR CHILD: $25k → 8%THE GENERATION GAP INC: $26k → 9%The Generation Gap Inc: $25k → 9%EBC CARES INC: $11k → 13%Friendship Center of Atlanta: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 60 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
97

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

32%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HI
    HABESHA Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $361k · revenue +52%
  • CF
    Community Farmers Markets Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +62%
  • HW
    Historic Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +174% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF ALPHARETTA
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • HI
    HABESHA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $44k
  • GS
    GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $37k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
2
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
3
We Sow We Grow Project

The We Sow We Grow Project is dedicated to the furtherance of gardening and farming in an urban landscape through education and service. Fresh fruits and vegetables are possible to grow for all and we seek to remove the fear and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Sustainable Growers
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5
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
6
Healthy Harvest Community Garden
Environment
7
Black Girls Cook

Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Gardenworks Project

The GardenWorks Project promotes organic suburban agriculture to improve the well-being of our community, the environment, and those facing food insecurity. We empower, educate, and support all food growers in their efforts to nourish…

Recreation & Sports
9
Freedom Farmers Market

Bring local, sustainably grown food to intown Atlanta neighborhoods.

Food & Nutrition
10
Southeast Gardens and Farm

To empower and build community by providing information

Food & Nutrition
11
Community Greenhouse Partners

To improve the quality of life of those around us by growing vegetables year round and selling them at low cost to urban families, employing local residents and teaching sustainability and earth science to young people. In order to meet…

—
12
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wholesome Wave Georgia Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 178 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/38
Grantees still filing
19/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+151 more: $3,461,978 · Other+151 moreCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $180,000 · EnvironmentCenter for Civi…Truly Living Well Ctr for Natural Urban: $172,526 · EnvironmentTruly Living We…Historic Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc: $120,000 · EnvironmentHistoric Westsi…THINK GREEN INC: $100,358 · EnvironmentTHINK GREEN INCGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $99,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA ORGANIC…+4 more: $64,000 · Environment+4 moreCommunity Farmers Markets Inc: $220,450 · Food & NutritionCommunity…GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $63,625 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL GR…WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionWHOLESOME…OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $34,588 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND…METRO ATLANTA URBAN FARM: $29,550 · Food & NutritionMETRO ATL…CONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCONCRETE …Giving Garden Inc: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $15,600 · Food & NutritionHABESHA Inc: $360,980 · Youth DevelopmentNW Youth Power Early Learning: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS: $75,000 · Human ServicesThe Generation Gap Inc: $50,870 · Human ServicesFriendship Center of Atlanta: $25,000 · Human ServicesEBC Cares Inc: $10,700 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $94,000 · HealthTRELLIS HORTICULTURAL THERAPY ALLIANCE INC: $46,500 · HealthWYLDE CENTER INC: $90,525 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,461,978Environment$735,884Food & Nutrition$458,813Youth Development$385,980Human Services$161,570Health$140,500Arts & Culture$90,525

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHABESHA Inc: $360,980 over 6y, 21% of budgetCommunity Farmers Markets Inc: $220,450 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $180,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTruly Living Well Ctr for Natural Urban: $172,526 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetHistoric Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc: $120,000 over 8y, 37% of budgetTHINK GREEN INC: $100,358 over 3y, 24% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $99,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $94,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWYLDE CENTER INC: $90,525 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $63,625 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Generation Gap Inc: $50,870 over 2y, 38% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTRELLIS HORTICULTURAL THERAPY ALLIANCE INC: $46,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $35,152 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $34,588 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArts Clayton Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA URBAN FARM: $29,550 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetGeorgia Farmers Market Association: $26,050 over 1y, 19% of budgetCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGWINNETT TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMy Green Earth Inc: $24,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetGiving Garden Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDENING ASSOC: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGEORGIA EXTENSION 4-H FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUnearthing Farm and Market Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResident Services Corporation of Dekalb: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGeorgia Recycling Coalition Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCHEFS COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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 HABESHA Inc ↗
  • Who funds Community Farmers Markets Inc ↗
  • Who funds Center for Civic Innovation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Truly Living Well Ctr for Natural Urban ↗
  • Who funds Historic Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds THINK GREEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Generation Gap Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRELLIS HORTICULTURAL THERAPY ALLIANCE INC ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…The Waterfall Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Georgia Organics IncThe Imlay Foundation …C F Foundation IncTull Charitable Found…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTr Uw Charles I BrananAEC Trust
United Way of Greater Atlanta IncGA33.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Georgia Organics Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · C F Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · AEC Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Food Well Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Food Well Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 178 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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