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Food Well Alliance
FOOD WELL ALLIANCE provides resources and support to local growers to connect and build healthier communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $394k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE QUEEN | $11,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HIHABESHA Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $361k · revenue +52%
- CFCommunity Farmers Markets Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +62%
- HWHistoric Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +174% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF ALPHARETTAone grant, 2023 · $75k
- HIHABESHA INCone grant, 2023 · $44k
- GSGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $37k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Bring local, sustainably grown food to intown Atlanta neighborhoods.
To empower and build community by providing information
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…
prove asset to organic food
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wholesome Wave Georgia Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Food Well Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.