· Public charity
Rodale Institute
Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing regenerative organic agriculture through rigorous research, farmer training and education.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $738k
- $250k+1 grant · $944k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $943,774 |
| UGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $204,100 |
| GEORGIA ORGANICS INC | $189,785 |
| SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE | $129,513 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $92,122 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $71,961 |
| MADISON GARDEN CLUB | $50,157 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $34,645 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $29,567 |
| CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION | $9,567 |
| VIGINIA ASSOC OF BIOLOGY | $6,803 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EUEmory University2× · 2023–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +16%
- UOUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $303k · revenue +28%
- SHSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE2× · 2024–2025 · $252k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $213k · revenue +39%
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.
The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…
To generate research funding opportunities for clemson university to support research initiatives that advance university discoveries to create new products and services for public use and benefit.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The corporation has been organized to engage in activities and pursuits which contribute to the educational, research, and service functions of georgia state university. thus, the corporation will attempt to secure gifts, contributions,…
Assist and further research at georgia southern university
Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…
The georgia tech research corporation (gtrc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance, and economic development.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To encourage, promote and aid the fulfillment of education, research and service functions of the university of memphis (u of m) and to encourage, promote and aid the transfer of technology generated in the course of research by u of m…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
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 13 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 Emory University ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rodale Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rodale Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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