· Public charity
Western Growers Association
WESTERN GROWERS ASSOCIATION's mission is to enhance the competitiveness and profitability of our members and lead our members and the fresh produce industry toward a healthy, sustainable and profitable future.
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.
The 5 grants below total $50,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $74,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,100 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE FOR FOOD & FARMING | $22,000 |
| PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CA | $10,000 |
| AGRI-PULSE | $7,000 |
| MINOR CROP FARMER ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| CA FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR ASSOCIATION | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AFALLIANCE FOR FOOD AND FARMING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +13%
- CACALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND2× · 2017–2018 · $72k · revenue +112%
PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- WGWESTERN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ISSUES PACone grant, 2020 · $125k
- CACOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +307%
- AFAMERICAN FUTURE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue -88%
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.
To engage in and support public education and research to protect and enhance Californias agricultural infrastructure and natural resources.
Promote ag education with university scholarships.
To advance public awareness, education, and understanding of california agriculture.
California fresh farmers market association's mission is to establish and operate vibrant farmers markets that connect communitites with fresh, locally grown produce and promote healthy living
Cfc advocates for the rights of california consumers on a broad range of consumer issues.
Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.
In collaboration with arizona's agricultural commodity groups, arizona farm and ranch group (afrg) will provide policy makers with up to date, applicable, and reliable information on critical issues facing the industry. in doing so, afrg…
To work for solutions to the problems of the farm and rural community by use of organized action. to represent, protect, and advance the social, economic and educational interests of the farmers of santa clara county.
As a community development financial institution, we invest in the prosperity and well-being of farmers, ranchers, and fishers who have limited access to financial resources. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom and the most unlike its peers is Governors Inaugural Fund 2019. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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.
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR FOOD AND FARMING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FUTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds GOVERNORS INAUGURAL FUND 2019 ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE COALITION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PRODUCE FOR BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Clean Water and Jobs for California ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Western Growers Association 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.