· Private foundation
The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| S M Sehgal Foundation | $452,000 |
| Mosaic Institute | $375,000 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $335,612 |
| Canadian Online Giving Foundation | $200,425 |
| American Farmland Trust | $200,000 |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $200,000 |
| National Audubon Society | $166,000 |
| Mosaic Institute | $160,000 |
| Tampa Bay Watch | $120,000 |
| Emergency Assistance Fund | $100,000 |
| Nutrient Stewardship Council | $100,000 |
| The UK Online Giving Foundation (CAN) | $71,069 |
| Emergency Assistance Fund | $50,000 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $50,000 |
| Florida Farm Bureau Women's Fund | $50,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 70% of grant dollars ($15M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($6.5M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 — 30% of all-years giving ($6.5M)
4 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k 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
- AFAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +384%
- UWUnited Way of Central Florida Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $828k · revenue +24%
- TBTAMPA BAY WATCH INC7× · 2017–2024 · $810k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MTMother Teresa Middle School Incone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- MOMeals on Wheels of Tampa Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +51%
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +14%
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.
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…
United Way North Central Florida seeks to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around North Central Florida to advance the common good.
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
To improve lives by uniting the caring power of our community
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non-profit agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…
To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county
To enhance the local florida united ways' efforts to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arcadia All-Florida Championship Rodeo Association Inc. 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.
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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
85 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. 85 of the 107 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA ALL-FLORIDA CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds United Way of Eddy County ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY THRIVES INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA FARM BUREAU WOMENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Vinik Family Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Spurlino Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc
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 Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems 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.
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- United Way of Pasco County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Champions for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Hernando County — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of St Johns County Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Home Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sendmemissions Inc — 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.
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