Rhode Island · Private foundation
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.
- $213k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 104
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations UNFI Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $883k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $213k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $1.6M | 59% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $1.0M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.0M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 104 | $1.3M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $714k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $1.1M | 65% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $405k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Community Land Trust | $215,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $145,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Foodcorps Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| FoodWhat Incorporated | $134,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Denver Urban Gardens | $126,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Urban Food Initiative Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc | $118,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Ccof Foundation | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Oregon Tilth Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Realize Impact | $100,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 235 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($828k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget UNFI Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About UNFI Foundation
- How much does UNFI Foundation give?
- UNFI Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $213,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 104 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does UNFI Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (68%), Environment (11%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are UNFI Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southside Community Land Trust ($215k), Open Arms of Minnesota ($145k), Foodcorps Inc ($140k).
- Does UNFI Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does UNFI Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as UNFI Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clif Family Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Farm Aid Inc.
- Where is UNFI Foundation based?
- UNFI Foundation is based in RI.
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