How much does Freshfarm Markets give?

Freshfarm Markets reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,203,133, out of $1,530,167 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Freshfarm Markets fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (94%), Environment (4%), Recreation & Sports (1%).

Who are Freshfarm Markets's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pleitez Produce ($572k), B & T Produce (Miller Farms) ($528k), Arcadia Food Inc ($312k).

Does Freshfarm Markets fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Freshfarm Markets based?

Freshfarm Markets is based in DC.

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Freshfarm Markets

Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. We create food access, economic development, and thriving communities through hands-on education, farmers…

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 35
Itemized grants FY2024: 31
Organizations funded FY2023: 26%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $20,875
Largest grant, FY2024: $198,660
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 31; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Freshfarm Markets funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	35	$1.2M	23%
FY2023	31	$1.0M	26%
FY2022	29	$1.1M	83%
FY2021	5	$68k	60%
FY2020	3	$41k	67%
FY2019	5	$112k	40%
FY2018	4	$110k	75%
FY2017	1	$41k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$3.5MEnvironment$148kRecreation & Sports$32kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pleitez Produce	$572,042	6	n/a
B & T Produce (Miller Farms)	$527,744	3	n/a
Arcadia Food Inc	$312,368	6	6%
Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland	$240,839	3	3%
Barajas Produce	$212,996	4	n/a
Friends of the National Arboretum	$168,823	3	5%
McLeaf's Market	$137,243	3	n/a
78 Acres	$132,448	3	n/a
Ashton Farms	$120,790	2	n/a
Ochoa Produce	$101,917	3	n/a

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All grantees of Freshfarm Markets by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pleitez Produce	$572,042	6	n/a
B & T Produce (Miller Farms)	$527,744	3	n/a
Arcadia Food Inc	$312,368	6	6%
Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland	$240,839	3	3%
Barajas Produce	$212,996	4	n/a
Friends of the National Arboretum	$168,823	3	5%
McLeaf's Market	$137,243	3	n/a
78 Acres	$132,448	3	n/a
Ashton Farms	$120,790	2	n/a
Ochoa Produce	$101,917	3	n/a
Garner's Produce	$86,092	3	n/a
Mickley's Orchard and Farm Market	$78,274	3	n/a
Quaker Valley Orchards	$74,303	3	n/a
Cornerstones Inc	$68,646	3	0%
Weaver Brothers	$62,626	2	n/a
Fajardo Produce	$60,999	3	n/a
Knopp Farms on the Shore	$51,216	2	n/a
Zamora Produce	$47,655	2	n/a
Ben's Produce	$46,481	2	n/a
Spring Valley Farm and Orchard	$41,386	3	n/a
Black Rock Orchard	$41,347	3	n/a
Reid's Orchard	$41,146	3	n/a
Community Foodworks	$40,746	2	2%
Richfield Farm	$37,746	3	n/a
G&B Diaz Farm	$32,543	3	n/a
Kings Produce	$27,886	1	n/a
Deep Roots Farm	$27,852	2	n/a
Kuhn Orchards	$25,713	2	n/a
Markets & More	$24,729	3	n/a
Common Good City Farm	$23,475	3	1%
Ignacios Produce	$22,735	1	n/a
Dreaming Out Loud Inc	$22,454	3	0%
Fj Medina and Sons	$20,875	1	n/a
Nature Forward	$20,000	1	0%
Hercules Fence	$19,945	1	n/a
Becerra's Produce	$17,827	1	n/a
New Morning Farm	$17,473	3	n/a
Licking Creek Bend Farm	$14,208	1	n/a
Twin Springs Fruit Farm	$13,640	2	n/a
Knopp Farms	$12,303	1	n/a
Love & Carrots	$11,875	1	n/a
Marcos Produce	$10,608	1	n/a
Parkview Farms	$9,809	1	n/a
Flores Produce	$6,583	1	n/a
City of Alexandria	$6,292	1	n/a
Frazier Fruit Farm	$6,028	1	n/a
Chicano Sol	$5,926	1	n/a
Eugene H Yarbrough Jr	$5,540	1	n/a
Building Bridges Across the River Inc	$5,537	1	0%
Britepaths Inc	$5,009	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Freshfarm Markets supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC15.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Freshfarm Markets

How much does Freshfarm Markets give?: Freshfarm Markets reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,203,133, out of $1,530,167 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Freshfarm Markets fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (94%), Environment (4%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are Freshfarm Markets's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pleitez Produce ($572k), B & T Produce (Miller Farms) ($528k), Arcadia Food Inc ($312k).
Does Freshfarm Markets fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freshfarm Markets?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
Where is Freshfarm Markets based?: Freshfarm Markets is based in DC.