· Public charity
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation
Rafi challenges the root causes of unjust food systems, supporting and advocating for economically, racially and ecologically just farm communities.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $352k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE | $245,085 |
| VIRGIN ISLANDS GOOD FOOD COALITION INC | $106,639 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $44,107 |
| LA COSECHA CSA | $32,456 |
| FITICAS EL FIDEICOMISO DE TIERRAS COMUNITARIAS PARA LA AGRICULTURA SOSTENIB | $26,558 |
| FARMER VETERAN COALITION | $23,178 |
| FUNDACION BUCARABON INC | $22,500 |
| FOUNTAIN HEIGHTS COOPERATIVE LLC | $22,015 |
| MUSE 3 FARM LLC | $21,780 |
| WINROCK INTL INST FOR AG DEV | $16,352 |
| FLORIDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC GROWERS | $10,768 |
| NORTH FORK FARM | $10,000 |
| BELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ROUND MOUNTAIN CREAMERY | $10,000 |
| WENCESLAUS PROVOST JR 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.
US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($234k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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
Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($234k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +99% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 35 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $370k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE CORP4× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +627% · 36% of their budget
- HMHISTORIC MORGANTON FESTIVAL INC3× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue ×17
- FDFEAST DOWN EAST INC2× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS INCone grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue +6%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +32%
- ISINQUIRING SYSTEMS INCone grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +18%
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.
Our mission is to engage our neighbors around locally grown, fresh foods to support local farmers and food artisans, educate on healthy eating, and eliminate food insecurity in our charlotte community.
Rafi challenges the root causes of unjust food systems, supporting and advocating for economically, racially and ecologically just farm communities.
Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
To build access to locally grown food and support local farmers.
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.
The hub city farmers' market is a nonprofit community organization that aims to increase supply, demand, and access to healthy, local foods in spartanburg, south carolina.
Support small farms and other businesses. Bring sustainable healthy products to the community.
East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 182 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 ALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE CORP ↗
- Who funds VIRGIN ISLANDS GOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds WINROCK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS INC ↗
- Who funds LA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds FIDEICOMISO DE TIERRAS COMUNITARIAS PARA LA AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MORGANTON FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FARMER VETERAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds FUNDACION BUCARABON INC ↗
- Who funds Communities In Partnership ↗
- Who funds FEAST DOWN EAST INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC GROWERS AND CONSUMERS INC ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKERS SELF-HELP 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.
Open a dossier: The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Farmer Foodshare Inc · Inquiring Systems Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Nc Idea · Windward Fund · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rural Advancement Foundation Internation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rural Advancement Foundation Internation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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