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UNFI Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Zero Foodprint | $35,000 |
| Food Forward | $10,000 |
| Reaching Beyond the Walls RVA | $10,000 |
| Interfaith Human Services of Putnam | $10,000 |
| Nourish Colorado | $10,000 |
| Anoka County Brotherhood Council Inc (ACBC Food Shelf) | $10,000 |
| United Indians of All Tribes Foundation | $10,000 |
| McAuley Ministries | $10,000 |
| Sustainable Food Center | $10,000 |
| Venture Cafe Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Food Group Minnesota Inc | $10,000 |
| The Food Trust | $10,000 |
| Paul's Pantry Inc | $10,000 |
| Kim's Krew Inc | $10,000 |
| Aspiring Texas Latinos Achieving Succeeding Together DBA La Tiendita | $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 (FY17–25, $633k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
120 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 114 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST6× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +32%- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA4× · 2019–2023 · $145k · revenue +309%
FOODCORPS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue +72%
Funded once
Realize Impactone grant, 2024 · $101k · revenue 0%- NNMSDCone grant, 2024 · $80k
- NANOURISH AND BLOOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
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…
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
Sprout city farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. sprout city farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms 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.
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…
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.
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.
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
To provide equitably resource producers and other food organizations focused on food security opportunities programs and services aimed at effective stewardship of resilient food ecosystems and related charitable programs and services…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope & Main and the most unlike its peers is All Relations United. 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 22 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
227 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. 227 of the 271 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 SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds FoodWhat Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc ↗
- Who funds CCOF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon Tilth Inc ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOODS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORGANIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Forage Inc ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE AND LAND BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE & MAIN ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA VA ↗
- Who funds Means Database Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PIE RANCH ↗
- Who funds ECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Recipe for Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds ZERO FOODPRINT ↗
- Who funds Guidestone ↗
- Who funds GARDENEERS ↗
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD ACRE ↗
- Who funds Just Roots Inc ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds 18 Reasons ↗
- Who funds PILOT LIGHT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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: Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Farm Aid Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation · Fair Food Network Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Sprouts Healthy Communities 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 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.
- Oregon Tilth Inc — 34% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc — 15% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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.