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TILTH ALLIANCE
TILTH ALLIANCE works in community with washington farmers, gardeners, and eaters for a more sustainable, healthy, and equitable food future.
$579k
Granted FY2024
58
Grants
2
Communities
$29k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of TILTH ALLIANCE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
beginningorganic
2020
farmvalley
2021
buildfarmfarms
2022
bluefarmfarms
2023
gardensheeporchardsfarmvalleyfarms
2024
meadowswildfrog farmcultivategrowingsystemsorchard
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 58 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $230k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $319k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GUSTAVSEN & CO LLC$29,265
- UTOPIA WASHINGTON FA'ATOAGA$10,000
- SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$10,000
- HILLCREST FARM$10,000
- OLA AINA FARMS$10,000
- MAVERICK FARM$10,000
- ABRAHAM'S ORGANICS LLC$10,000
- JEMBE FARM$10,000
- SPOTTED FROG FARM$10,000
- ELK MEADOWS FARM$10,000
- RABBIT FIELDS FARM$10,000
- DILISH FARM$10,000
- KEZAMA FARM$10,000
- HOGSTEAD FARM$10,000
- DANCING GOATS AND SINGING CHICKENS$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
8%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$123k · 5 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
87
Total granted
$123k
$984k
Still filing today
0%
5%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- GCGUSTAVSEN & CO LLC3× · 2022–2024 · $53k
- FTFlat Tack Farm LLC2× · 2021–2024 · $20k
- KFKEZAMA FARM2× · 2023–2024 · $17k
Funded once
- VFViva Farmsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $81k · revenue +171%
- STSno-Valley Tilthone grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue -66%
- DFD&D Farmone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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Sustainable Growers
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2
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
Food & Nutrition
3
Taproot Earth
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Environment
4
Foodwise Community
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We achieve this through the operation of farmers markets and food education programs.
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5
Urban Harvest Inc
Urban Harvest encourages community, good nutrition, and sustainability through the education and support of organic gardening. Urban Harvest's vision is a healthier city where everyone has access to locally grown, nutritious food harvested…
Environment
6
Tacoma Farmers Market
The mission of the Tacoma Farmers Market is to provide a sustainable market venue where local farms and small businesses can connect directly with consumers and the community. In doing so, our three markets support our vision of:…
Human Services
7
Friends of Family Farmers
Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.
Food & Nutrition
8
Northeast Organic Farming Association
NOFA-NJ is an Association of consumers, farmers and gardeners, creating a regionally based organic agricultural system which is economically viable.
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9
Dc Greens Inc
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Community Improvement
10
Sharing Our Roots
To advance a resilient agriculture system that demonstrates the power to heal our lands, nourish our communities and prepare emerging farmers.
Community Improvement
11
Organic Farmers Association
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers. Our purpose is to build and support a farmer-led national organic farmer movement and national…
Food & Nutrition
12
Development in Gardening
Rooted in the practices and principles of agroecology, Development in Gardening works with uniquely marginalized communities to grow regenerative gardens and helps farmers build resilient, long-lasting food systems for themselves and their…
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South King County Food Coalition and the most unlike its peers is United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,379,072Food & Nutrition$150,553Human Services$39,917Education$28,138Community Improvement$10,000
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.
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.
Seattle FoundationWA10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Ndc Housing & Economic Development · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation TILTH ALLIANCE 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Viva Farms.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 204396437 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Viva Farms, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Tilth Alliance?
Find your warmest path to Tilth Alliance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines