How much did UNFI Foundation grant in FY2024?

Food & Nutrition$2.1MEnvironment$940kHuman Services$721kCommunity Improvement$295kPhilanthropy$285kEducation$260kYouth Development$138kArts & Culture$110kHealth$70kOther$2.3M

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

hunger reliefrelief vulnerablefresh healthyincrease supplysupply organicfarmeradvance childhood

2020

covidfood accessfarmgrowmealsincreasingemergency response

2021

hunger reliefrelief vulnerablefresh healthyvulnerable populationsincrease supplysupply organicadvance childhood

2022

food vulnerablefresh healthyvulnerable populationsadvance childhoodchildhood nutritionaccess freshhealthy food

2023

food vulnerablefresh healthyvulnerable populationsincrease supplysupply organicaccess freshhealthy food

2024

goodcollaborativeloaves fishesfarmerstablekitchenfarm

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $18k
$10k–50k50 grants · $953k
$50k–250k11 grants · $631k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$837k

Total assets

Largest grants

Realize Impact$100,500
NMSDC$80,000
Daily Table$50,000
CCOF Foundation$50,000
Oregon Tilth$50,000
Steward$50,000
Organic Farming Research$50,000
ReFED$50,000
Foodrecoveryorg$50,000
Hmong American Farmers Association$50,000
Mandela Partners$50,000
The Good Acre$45,000
RI Public Health Institute$30,000
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners$30,000
Kitchen of Purpose$30,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $565k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.6M · 102 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

102 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102

111

Total granted

$4.6M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%

+97%

Still filing today

87%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCommunity 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

Southside Community Land Trust
6× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +113%
OA
OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC
4× · 2019–2023 · $145k · revenue +226%
DU
DENVER URBAN GARDENS
6× · 2018–2023 · $126k · revenue +99%

Funded once

MF
MOVE FOR HUNGERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +550%
NA
NOURISH AND BLOOM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $50k
NM
NATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +80%

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.

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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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

Local Food Solutions

We work to expand access to local food for more people in the community through the purchase, aggregation, storage, marketing and delivery of fresh, safe, local food in partnership with local growers.

Food & Nutrition

A Well-Fed World

A global hunger relief food security and climate advocacy organization providing grants and research to advance plant-based foods and farming.

Food & Nutrition

Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition

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

The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture

Seedmoney

SeedMoney improves the health of people, local communities and the planet by empowering public food gardens and farms to start up and thrive.

Environment

Everyones Harvest

Everyone's Harvest's mission is to provide access to healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables through certified farmers markets and community food programs.

Food & Nutrition

Farmer Foodshare Inc

Farmer foodshare reshapes the disconnected food system by removing barriers to growing and accessing local food. we create markets for local farmers and deliver fresh, healthy food to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity…

Food & Nutrition

Fresh Approach

The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.

Food & Nutrition

Community Food Connections Inc

Support small farms and other businesses. Bring sustainable healthy products to the community.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reap Food Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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.

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 23 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 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/203

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,362

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.

05the grantee network

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

103

Early backer (in before they grew)

194/197

Grantees still filing

178/197

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,632,770Food & Nutrition$2,088,154Environment$939,995Human Services$721,250Community Improvement$295,250Philanthropy$285,000Education$259,596

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.

Clif Family FoundationCA90.9× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Farm Aid Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Community Foundation For · The Kroger Co Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Foundation for Sustainability · Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy · The Sprouts Healthy Communities · Newman's Own 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 UNFI 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get 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: THE VEGETABLE CONNECTION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270168821 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 THE VEGETABLE CONNECTION INC, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% 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 UNFI Foundation?

Find your warmest path to UNFI Foundation 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.

UNFI Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to UNFI Foundation?

More from the funding graph

UNFI Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to UNFI Foundation?

More from the funding graph