· Public charity
Kiss the Ground
Our mission is to awaken the people to the possibilities of regeneration.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANDERS FAMILY FARM | $40,000 |
| KOKES CATTLE COMPANY LLC | $35,000 |
| WILD TYPE RANCH LLC | $25,000 |
| VETTED FARMS | $25,000 |
| ML RANCH LLC | $20,000 |
| PT RANCH | $20,000 |
| NALWOODI DENZHONE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| PROVENANCE ORGANIC FARM LLC | $15,000 |
| MUD RIDGE RANCH LLC | $15,000 |
| SQUEEZE CITRUS LLC | $15,000 |
| SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC | $12,000 |
| CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESILIENCE INC | $11,000 |
| TERAVANA FOUNDATION LLC | $10,000 |
| MACE CHASM FARM LLC | $10,000 |
| LIVING PASTURES FARM LLC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 17 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $296k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSOIL HEALTH ACADEMY3× · 2019–2025 · $880k · revenue -86% · 53% of their budget
- PBPROJECT BIOME INC2× · 2019–2020 · $633k · revenue +123% · 85% of their budget
- RCREDFORD CENTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $65k · revenue -18%
Funded once
- NBNATIONAL BLACK FARMERS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +64%
- UAUNDERSTANDING AG LLCone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.
To guide farmers and ranchers in applying regenerative principles that yield healthier soil, more productive grazing land, and business success. (see schedule o)
Saves the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.
Rodale institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing regenerative organic agriculture through rigorous research, farmer training and education. for more than seventy-five years, rodale institute has been researching best…
Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of impoverished farmers by revitalizing degraded lands.
Through large-scale restoration and rewilding, natural state secures biodiversity, sequesters and stores carbon, and helps achieve the sustainable development goals. natural state is helping restore and rewild a minimum of 1,000,000 acres.
Through community partnerships in ecuador, building carbon scales up regenerative agroforestry through farmer training and advances the state of the art of bamboo building technology through r&d. we are built on partnerships and…
Marbleseed educates, inspires, and empowers farmers to thrive in a sustainable, organic system of agriculture.
Advancing sustainability in the western area of the united states through a series of programs and activities designed to promote better ranching practices. a strong focus is to provide ranchers with the information, tools, technical…
Advance the interests of us corn farmers through research and education.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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.
- Who funds SOIL HEALTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BIOME INC ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK FARMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NALWOODI DENZHONE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds TERAVANA TRUST F/K/A WELLKIND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kiss the Ground funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kiss the Ground. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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