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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 FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$463k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $2,885,271, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,176,755 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $291,484 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
$145,458
Median grant
16
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$463,025
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY$423,571
USDA ARS BELTSVILLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER$394,509
UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS$371,677
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$260,551
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN$259,015
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$170,878
TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH$145,458
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION$130,170
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA - UNIVSERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$91,240
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIVISION OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS$57,752
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$39,068
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$32,433
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$22,231
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$16,512
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $549k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - LOWELL: $135k → 8%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $158k → 22%CAL POLY CORPORATION: $162k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS: $465k → 16%TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $521k → 22%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $156k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $140k → 20%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $202k → 18%NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $204k → 8%CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: $243k → 14%UNIVSERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $567k → 27%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $289k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: $259k → 19%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $151k → 21%USDA ARS BELTSVILLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER: $404k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $430k → 16%TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $145k → 22%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $201k → 16%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $162k → 18%NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $203k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA - RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $459k → 27%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $261k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: $150k → 19%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $140k → 21%USDA ARS BELTSVILLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER: $395k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $463k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $410k → 16%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $174k → 16%UNIVSERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $298k → 27%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $246k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: $135k → 19%VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION: $130k → 21%DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: $209k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $380k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS: $398k → 16%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $137k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA - RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $175k → 27%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $148k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $284k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS: $372k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $230k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $333k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $210k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS: $219k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $133k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS: $217k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 25 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
4

Total granted

$20M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+44%

Still filing today

20%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Cornell University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +59%
  • UO
    University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +26%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $303k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +44%
  • Purdue Research Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
2
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $2,950,161 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2,749,913 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,287,331 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA): $1,259,985 · OtherAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA)THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $959,335 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $943,052 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYTEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $787,845 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $723,913 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $703,478 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $669,113 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $537,708 · Other+13 more: $2,306,885 · Other+13 moreCornell University: $2,293,559 · EducationCornell UniversityUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $1,589,557 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Res…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $302,635 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $286,723 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC ST…+3 more: $172,617 · Education
Other$15,878,719Education$4,645,091

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $2,293,559 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $1,589,557 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $302,635 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $286,723 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $117,635 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $104,673 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $37,944 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗

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 →

Open a dossier: Cornell University

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Center for Produce Safety funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Center for Produce Safety. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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