· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Freshfarm Markets funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freshfarm Markets. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
- Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland: 6% of income from government
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