· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $1,203,133 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,530,167 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $327,034 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $646k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLEITEZ PRODUCE | $198,660 |
| MILLER FARMS PRODUCE (B&T PRODUCE) | $190,657 |
| ARCADIA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD & AGRICULTURE | $73,562 |
| ASHTON FARMS | $66,769 |
| BARAJAS PRODUCE | $65,610 |
| 78 ACRES | $50,924 |
| OCHOA PRODUCE | $39,327 |
| KNOPP FARMS ON THE SHORE | $37,438 |
| MICKLEY'S ORCHARD AND FARM MARKET | $34,229 |
| WEAVER BROTHERS | $34,125 |
| MCCLEAF'S ORCHARD | $33,133 |
| BEN'S PRODUCE | $31,972 |
| KINGS PRODUCE | $27,886 |
| QUAKER VALLEY ORCHARDS | $27,150 |
| SMADC | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +83% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- AFARCADIA FOOD INC6× · 2018–2024 · $312k · revenue +83%
- TCTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR SOUTHERN MARYLAND3× · 2022–2024 · $241k · revenue +104%
- FOFriends of the National Arboretum3× · 2017–2019 · $169k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- NFNature Forwardone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +7%
- HFHERCULES FENCEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- LCLICKING CREEK BEND FARMone grant, 2022 · $14k
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.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Community groundworks connects individuals to urban agricultural and natural lands within a diverse learning community. we grow wholesome and organic food for local tables, steward urban natural areas, inspire healthful eating, and offer…
Support small farms and other businesses. Bring sustainable healthy products to the community.
To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…
Improving community health through local food access.
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…
Capital roots, inc. is a not for profit organization that nourishes healthy communities by providing access to fresh food and green spaces for all. it is our beleif that organic gardening and urban revitilization activites promote self…
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
To grow a more local and resilient food system by connecting gardeners with their communities
Mcfc builds an equitable, resilient and sustainable local food system through collaboration, transformation, and cultivation.mcfc envisions a vibrant and equitable food system that is healthy for our community, economy, and environment.
We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.
Neighborhood farmers market alliance's mission is to strengthen and support washington's small farms and farming families by providing effective direct sales sites and broadening access to seattle shoppers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstones Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arcadia Food Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 51 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.
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: 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
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 Freshfarm Markets 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland — 6% of income from government
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.