· Private foundation
The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| GLYNWOOD | $10,000 |
| YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| EQUITY TRUST | $10,000 |
| RACHEL'S NETWORKINC | $10,000 |
| GREEN WAVE | $10,000 |
| GATHER NEW HAVEN - PREV NEW HAVEN FARMS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PERRENNIAL FARMING INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| CITYSEED | $10,000 |
| CARROT PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your 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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- GOGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue ×16
- CSCITY SEED INC4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +349%
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GNGATHER NEW HAVEN - PREV NEW HAVEN FARMSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ZFZERO FOODPRINTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +362%
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +104%
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.
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.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
Sprout city farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. sprout city farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and…
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
Field & fork network connects communities to innovative solutions that foster a sustainable food system. the 4 areas of focus include: food access, agriculture economic development, youth development and healthy neighborhoods.
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
As a learning center, the organic farm school trains new farmers to develop and manage farms focused on ecological, economic and social regeneration - simultaneously offerring opportunities for our community and others to learn about their…
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partakers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EQUITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds ZERO FOODPRINT ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
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 Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc · The Robert Stern Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
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.