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Rural Advancement Foundation Internation
Rafi challenges the root causes of unjust food systems, supporting and advocating for economically, racially and ecologically just farms communities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $530,155 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $869,927 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $339,772 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE | $120,036 |
| VIRGIN ISLANDS GOOD FOOD COALITION INC | $101,292 |
| WINROCK INTL INST FOR AG DEV | $50,571 |
| NATIONAL ASSOC OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS | $38,203 |
| FOUNTAIN HEIGHTS COOPERATIVE LLC | $26,315 |
| INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC | $25,625 |
| GREEN HEFFA FARMS INC | $14,494 |
| HENSON'S CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SPRUCE PINE UMC | $10,000 |
| RIDGEVILLE OKRA CO | $9,581 |
| RED TAIL GRAINS LLC | $8,500 |
| GRAIN BIN FARMS | $8,500 |
| MOUSAVI FARM | $8,500 |
| SC BLACK FARMERS COALITION FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| SUNLIGHT FARM LLC | $8,500 |
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.
Your 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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($234k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +627% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 23 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AFALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE CORP3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · 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
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +32%
- NCNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projecgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +53%
Communities In Partnershipgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +328%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Help small farmers purchase and sell in bulk with a goal of creating sustainability in rural communities by connecting with usda and other organizations to provide services in a timely manner.
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…
To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.
The NWF2F DBA Minority Growers Collective is a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit founded in February of 2021 to meet the education, training, and financial assistance needs of agricultural growers and producers of color and meet the needs of…
To build access to locally grown food and support local farmers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Piedmont Progressive Farmers Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 146 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 ALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE CORP ↗
- Who funds VIRGIN ISLANDS GOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WINROCK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ↗
- 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 Communities In Partnership ↗
- Who funds FEAST DOWN EAST INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT PROGRESSIVE FARMERS GROUP ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKERS SELF-HELP INC ↗
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 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
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 Rural Advancement Foundation Internation 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.
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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