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California · Public charity

The Center for Produce Safety

To support research, provide guidance, and engage in public education and outreach regarding produce food safety issues.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Itemized grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$2.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$145,458
Largest grant, FY2024
$463,025
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations The Center for Produce Safety funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$2.9M6%
FY202316$3.8M6%
FY202218$3.1M17%
FY202116$2.3M13%
FY202015$2.0M20%
FY201915$2.5M20%
FY201814$2.0M29%
FY201713$1.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$21M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of California Davis$2,950,1618n/a
University of Arizona$2,749,9138n/a
Cornell University$2,293,55980%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$1,589,55750%
Washington State University$1,287,3317n/a
Agricultural Research Service (Usda)$1,259,9856n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$959,3357n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$943,0524n/a
Texas A&M Agrilife Research$787,8453n/a
Clemson University$723,9137n/a
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All grantees of The Center for Produce Safety by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of California Davis$2,950,1618n/a
University of Arizona$2,749,9138n/a
Cornell University$2,293,55980%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$1,589,55750%
Washington State University$1,287,3317n/a
Agricultural Research Service (Usda)$1,259,9856n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$959,3357n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$943,0524n/a
Texas A&M Agrilife Research$787,8453n/a
Clemson University$723,9137n/a
Michigan State University$703,4787n/a
The University of Tennessee$669,1134n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$537,7086n/a
Nc State University$457,9824n/a
Oregon State University$380,1593n/a
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention$339,9023n/a
University of Massachusetts$307,4354n/a
Drexel University$302,63530%
California Polytechnic State University Foundation$286,72330%
Kansas State University$244,0303n/a
University of Connecticut$155,8644n/a
University of Florida$125,6052n/a
University of Delaware$117,63550%
University of Arkansas - Division of Agriculture$60,1722n/a
University of Florida$57,7521n/a
Cleveland State University$41,6182n/a
University of Pittsburgh$37,94410%
Purdue Research Foundation$30,00010%
Pennsylvania State University$12,6191n/a
Florida State University$6,1121n/a

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.

Cornell University
Cornell UniversityNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Center for Produce Safety

How much does The Center for Produce Safety give?
The Center for Produce Safety reported 16 itemized grants totaling $2,885,271, out of $3,176,755 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Center for Produce Safety fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are The Center for Produce Safety's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of California Davis ($3.0M), University of Arizona ($2.7M), Cornell University ($2.3M).
Does The Center for Produce Safety fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Center for Produce Safety?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cornell University.
Where is The Center for Produce Safety based?
The Center for Produce Safety is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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