· Public charity
The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation
THE SPROUTS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION, established in 2015, works to improve lives and health outcomes in the communities we serve through local nutrition education, nutrition access, and wellness programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 346 grants below total $12,900,277 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,191,436 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,291,159 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 $10k70 grants · $551k
- $10k–50k253 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE LAB SCIENCE PROGRAM | $1,600,000 |
| UT AUSTIN | $1,385,766 |
| VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $1,108,982 |
| THE WALLS PROJECT | $870,000 |
| SLOW FOOD PHOENIX-BLUE WATERMELON | $765,000 |
| OUT TEACH | $750,000 |
| VALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION | $525,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LEE COUNTY | $450,000 |
| CITY OF SURPRISE | $450,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY (PEAS) | $300,000 |
| HEBNI NUTRITIONAL CONSULTANTS INC | $250,000 |
| GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $225,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS - LOS ANGELES | $130,000 |
| COMMON VISION | $107,000 |
| SLOW FOOD DENVER | $100,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $746k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
91 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 263 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- LLLife Lab Science Program5× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +158% · 70% of their budget
- OTOUT TEACH8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +33%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- NINOPI INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $531k · revenue +80% · 38% of their budget
- SOSpaces of Opportunityone grant, 2023 · $185k
- CMCOMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +116%
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.
Valley verde increases self-sufficiency, health, and resilience, through a culturally informed community based food system to promote food justice.
Alchemist cdc connects sacramento area communities to land, food, and opportunity toward a vision in which all neighborhoods are vibrant, equitable, healthy, and diverse. we are best known for enhancing the quality of life in…
The mission of The Edible Schoolyard Project is to build and share a national food curriculum for the education system. The Organization envisions this "Edible Education" as part of the core curriculum of every school in the country.
Edible schoolyard nyc is on a mission to make edible education accessible for every child in nyc. we believe edible education-where kids experience hands-on cooking and gardening helps kids gain the skills to contribute to a healthy and…
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.
To educate and inpspire young adults to promote environmentally conscious & socially responsible choices.
The mission of the tucson family food project is to provide meals for children who are struggling with food insecurity, while teaching them how to cook food for themselves in their own homes.
To create opportunities to explore deeper connections to our food and each other through immersive, hands-on, garden-to-kitchen experiences for the central florida community.
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…
Founded in 2007, sierra harvest is building a community that values and eats an abundance of fresh, local, seasonal food; training successful local farmers that are increasing sustainable food production; and creating equitable access to…
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educated Choices Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Growing Roots. 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 25 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% 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.
365 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. 365 of the 458 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Life Lab Science Program ↗
- Who funds OUT TEACH ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SLOW FOOD USA INC DBA SLOW FOOD PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds THE WALLS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NOPI INC ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds JONES VALLEY URBAN FARM ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HEBNI NUTRITION CONSULTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILD WISDOM FOUNDATION INC (FORMERLY A CERAMI & A DUNNE FDN FOR WORLD HEALTH) ↗
- Who funds Spaces of Opportunity ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNERS CAUSE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE SPROUTS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE AZ ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds SPROUT CITY FARMS ↗
- Who funds SLOW FOOD CO-DENVER ↗
- Who funds COMMON VISION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCKINNEY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds IDEAS FOR US 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: Round It Up America Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Valley of the Sun United Way · Clif Family Foundation · UNFI Foundation · Share Our Strength · Arizona Community Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · The Kroger Co Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement
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 Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation 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.
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Ideas for Us Inc — 35% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% 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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