· Private foundation
Grace Communications Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
Anchored by a single position — about 94% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR ENVIRONMENT | $55,000 |
| EARTHSHARE | $50,000 |
| MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL FAMILY FARM COALITION | $20,000 |
| NORTH ATLANTIC MARINE ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FARM AID INC | $10,000 |
| MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC | $10,000 |
| CIVIL EATS | $10,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS | $10,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MULTIPLIER | $10,000 |
| VETERANS TO FARMERS | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
The roa intends to create a path for agricultural producers of food and fiber to introduce and scale the use of regenerative organic practices in their operation in an effort to increase soil health and carbon through soil. also the roa…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 EARTHSHARE ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds National Save The Family Farm Coalition ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARM AID INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Civil Eats ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds Veterans to Farmers Inc ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON DOG RESCUE ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Nell Newman Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Grace Communications Foundation Inc 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% 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.
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