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Big Green

Big Green believes growing food changes lives.

$965k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$441kFood & Nutrition$388kHuman Services$290kEnvironment$161kPhilanthropy$134kArts & Culture$100kHealth$82kEmployment$50kYouth Development$45kOther$501k
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $884,948 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $964,748 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,800 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $686k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $183k
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAISD Foundation$78,000
Los Cabos Childrens Foundation$55,448
Gardopia Gardens$50,000
Outer Haven$33,500
Urban Symbiosis$26,000
Good Neighbor Settlement House$26,000
Land Together$26,000
St Sabina Church$26,000
San Antonio District$25,000
BiG Heroes Inc$25,000
Revival of Culture Arts$25,000
Manna - The Durango Soup Kitchen$25,000
Montezuma School to Farm Project$25,000
Black Seeds$25,000
Brownsville Wellness Coalition Inc$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Los Cabos Childrens Foundation: $55k → 6%FMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS: $10k → 11%Greenbriar Children's Center Inc: $8k → 16%Urban Symbiosis: $26k → 8%FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50k → 12%KIDS ABOVE EVERYTHING: $25k → 12%A Farm Less Ordinary: $10k → 4%TALMAR: $10k → 11%Good Neighbor Settlement House: $26k → 23%WEECYCLE: $10k → 8%URBAN SYMBIOSIS: $25k → 12%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$543k · 8 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
38

Total granted

$543k
$917k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $697k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • G
    GARDENEERS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +60%
  • BW
    BROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +41%
  • US
    Urban Symbiosis
    2× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FN
    FMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +157%
  • TC
    THE CALVARY GROUP
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sustainable Growers
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2
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
3
We Sow We Grow Project

The We Sow We Grow Project is dedicated to the furtherance of gardening and farming in an urban landscape through education and service. Fresh fruits and vegetables are possible to grow for all and we seek to remove the fear and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
5
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
6
Urban Harvest Inc

Urban Harvest is transforming food accessibility in Greater Houston through partnerships with local farmers and gardeners, vibrant Farmers Markets and mobile markets, and comprehensive garden education. Our goal is not just to improve, but…

Environment
7
The Neighborhood Garden Project

We cultivate people through presence, soil, and shared work. The Neighborhood Garden Project exists to help individuals reconnect with identity, healing, and belonging by creating thoughtful spaces where people return to who they are…

Human Services
8
Cultivating Community

To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.

Food & Nutrition
9
Sagrada Botanical Gardens

The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…

Environment
10
UpRoot Colorado

UpRoot Colorado works to increase nutrition security in Colorado by harvesting and redistributing surplus agricultural crops while supporting the resilience of farmers and creating opportunities for volunteers to learn about and connect…

Food & Nutrition
11
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
12
Frogtown Garden

Frogtown Farm is an urban farm with a mission to enrich the world by cultivating soil and community in Frogtown. The farm is built upon values of justice for people and the planet, connection within and across communities, resilience with…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kindness Farm and the most unlike its peers is Black Seeds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Mentoring ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%11%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%45%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,485

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 80 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
36/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $50,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEOUTER HAVEN — $33,500 · OtherMOHAMMED SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA LTD — $30,000 · OtherST SABINA CHURCH — $26,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $25,000 · OtherMONTBELLO 2020 — $25,000 · OtherMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $25,000 · OtherURBAN PROGRESS ALLIANCE — $25,000 · OtherSan Antonio District — $25,000 · OtherLIGHT CARRIER — $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION — $25,000 · OtherHIP HOP IS GREEN — $40,000 · OtherHIP HOP IS GREENOURSPACE WORLD INC — $30,000 · OtherBIG HEROES INC — $50,000 · OtherBIG HEROES INCLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM — $36,000 · Other+15 more — $207,684 · Other+15 moreGARDENEERS — $225,000 · EducationGARDENEERSKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER — $50,000 · EducationKERES CHILDREN'S LEARN…HAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC — $50,000 · EducationHAND HEART AND SOUL PR…AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $26,000 · EducationAUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATIO…Black Sustainability Inc — $25,000 · EducationBlack Sustainability I…VILLAGE MICRO FUND — $25,000 · EducationVILLAGE MICRO FUNDBUILDING EDUCATION — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $20,000 · EducationBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION — $75,000 · Food & NutritionBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS…THE CALVARY GROUP — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CALVARY GROUPBig Green — $37,500 · Food & NutritionBig GreenJUST ROOTS JUST ROOTS CHICAGO — $30,000 · Food & NutritionJUST ROOTS JUST ROOT…BLACK SEEDS — $25,000 · Food & NutritionBLACK SEEDSFront Line Farming — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFront Line FarmingSPROUT CITY FARMS — $20,000 · Food & NutritionAG & FOOD LAB — $20,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionSan Diego Food System Alliance — $20,000 · Food & NutritionKINDNESS FARM — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreFMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS — $60,000 · Human ServicesFMW NONPROFIT S…Los Cabos Children's Foundation — $55,448 · Human ServicesLos Cabos Child…Urban Symbiosis — $51,000 · Human ServicesUrban SymbiosisGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc — $26,000 · Human ServicesGood Neighbor S…Kids Above Everything — $25,000 · Human ServicesKids Above Ever…APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesAPPETITE FOR CH…GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesWEECYCLE — $10,000 · Human ServicesTALMAR INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesA FARM LESS ORDINARY — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $8,000 · Human ServicesGardopia Gardens — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHINK GREEN INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE HEALTHY EARTH ORGANIZATION INC — $26,000 · EnvironmentMONTEZUMA SCHOOL TO FARM PROJECT — $25,000 · EnvironmentFRUITFUL COMMONS — $20,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHWEST DETROIT ENVIRONMENTAL VISION — $10,000 · EnvironmentSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $78,000 · PhilanthropyST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 · PhilanthropySchoolSeed Foundation — $23,500 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · PhilanthropyREVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureZINTKALA LUTA — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$678,184Education$441,000Food & Nutrition$387,500Human Services$290,448Environment$161,000Philanthropy$134,000Arts & Culture$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGARDENEERS — $225,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $78,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION — $75,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFMW NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS — $60,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLos Cabos Children's Foundation — $55,448 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUrban Symbiosis — $51,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBIG HEROES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetGardopia Gardens — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetREVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTS — $50,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHAND HEART AND SOUL PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHIP HOP IS GREEN — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBig Green — $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM — $36,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOURSPACE WORLD INC — $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetJUST ROOTS JUST ROOTS CHICAGO — $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc — $26,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEALTHY EARTH ORGANIZATION INC — $26,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlack Sustainability Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLACK SEEDS — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetKids Above Everything — $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFront Line Farming — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMONTEZUMA SCHOOL TO FARM PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation — $23,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFriendship of Women Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPROUT CITY FARMS — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAG & FOOD LAB — $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING EDUCATION — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSan Diego Food System Alliance — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFRUITFUL COMMONS — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetKINDNESS FARM — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTerra BIRDS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetZINTKALA LUTA — $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCITY OF DREAMS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetURBAN HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKAIZEN FOOD RESCUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEECYCLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSproutin Up Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Trailhead InstitutePatagoniaorgThe Denver FoundationThe Sprouts Healthy C…The Colorado Health F…The Schmidt Family Fo…Solutions Project IncTides CenterAmalgamated Charitabl…Clif Family FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Brownsville Foundatio…
Trailhead InstituteCO20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trailhead Institute · Patagoniaorg · The Denver Foundation · The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · Tides Center · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education

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 Big Green 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Talmar Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Ourspace World Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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