· Public charity
Tilth Alliance
Our mission is to build an ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially equitable food system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 58 grants below total $549,174 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $579,461 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,287 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 $10k28 grants · $230k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $319k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUSTAVSEN & CO LLC | $29,265 |
| HOP FROG FARM | $10,000 |
| EMPYREAN FARM | $10,000 |
| VASHON PEONY CO | $10,000 |
| DILISH FARM | $10,000 |
| ABRAHAM'S ORGANICS LLC | $10,000 |
| HOGSTEAD FARM | $10,000 |
| ELK MEADOWS FARM | $10,000 |
| CROZIER FARM & ORCHARD | $10,000 |
| FLAMES VOICE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| OLA AINA FARMS | $10,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC | $10,000 |
| OLD BRICK FARM | $10,000 |
| KEZAMA FARM | $10,000 |
| LOVGREN DAIRY | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $490k 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
- GCGUSTAVSEN & CO LLC3× · 2022–2024 · $53k
- FTFlat Tack Farm LLC2× · 2021–2024 · $20k
- FFFarias Farm2× · 2020–2022 · $20k
Funded once
- VFVIVA FARMSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $81k · revenue +177%
- STSnoValley Tilthone grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue -66%
- KFKIRSOP FARMSone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Educate about,support, and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture
Clatskanie Farmer Collective cultivates a resilient local agricultural system by increasing market opportunities, community engagement, and producer support.
Community Grows Here. We cultivate a community dedicated to building equitable food systems for all people, and steward our environment for the benefit of all species. We believe in Caring for the Earth. We steward our local ecosystem by…
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…
We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.
To grow the local food supply by supporting farmers, preparing food plants for climate change and increasing health giving food availability for people in need
The mission of friends of the farms is to ensure the future of local farming and build a healthier community through a resilient and equitable food ecosystem.through our programming, services, and community engagement we support local…
Farmily cultivates connection resilience and wellness by teaching youth and communities to grow food nurture nature and care for themselves and each other through hands-on garden education. Farmilys core activites are teaching organic…
Common Roots provides food education, food access and organic farming programs.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South King County Food Coalition Skcfc and the most unlike its peers is Wakulima Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 145 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.
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: Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance · Clif Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group Return · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organization 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.
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.