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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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$614kPublic Benefit$295kEmployment$53kSocial Science$22kHuman Services$15kCommunity Improvement$15kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $50,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $74,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,100 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$133M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRIENDS OF CA STATE FAIR: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$373k · 7 repeat orgs$646k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$373k
$640k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

57%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR FOOD AND FARMING INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +13%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $72k · revenue +112%
  • PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • WG
    WESTERN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ISSUES PAC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +307%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FUTURE FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue -88%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alliance of Californias Farmers and Ranchers Community Fund

To engage in and support public education and research to protect and enhance Californias agricultural infrastructure and natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
2
California Farm Bureau Scholarship Foundation

Promote ag education with university scholarships.

Education
3
California Bountiful Foundation

To advance public awareness, education, and understanding of california agriculture.

Environment
4
California Fresh Farmers Market Association

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Farming for the Future Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Consumer Federation of California

Cfc advocates for the rights of california consumers on a broad range of consumer issues.

Public Benefit
7
The Agricultural Foundation of California State University Fresno

Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.

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8
Arizona Farm and Ranch Group

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…

Community Improvement
9
Santa Clara County Farm Bureau

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.

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10
California Farmlink

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.

Education
11
California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment
12
American Farm Bureau Federation

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR FOOD AND FARMING INC: $143,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR FOOD AND FARMING INCWESTERN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ISSUES PAC: $125,000 · OtherWESTERN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ISSUES PACCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS: $125,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERSFAMILY FARMERS WORKING FOR A BETTER CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · OtherFAMILY FARMERS WORKING FOR A BETTER CALIFORNIACALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $50,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATIONMINOR CROP FARMER ALLIANCE: $40,000 · OtherAGRI-PULSE: $39,000 · OtherAGRICULTURE COALITION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM: $37,500 · Other+5 more: $91,500 · Other+5 moreAMERICAN FUTURE FUND: $120,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN FUTURE FU…GOVERNORS INAUGURAL FUND 2019: $50,000 · Public BenefitGOVERNORS INAUGURA…CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND: $72,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR: $15,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · Community ImprovementClean Water and Jobs for California: $5,000 · Environment
Other$751,000Public Benefit$170,000Food & Nutrition$72,000Human Services$15,000Community Improvement$5,500Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIANCE FOR FOOD AND FARMING INC: $143,000 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS: $125,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAMERICAN FUTURE FUND: $120,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND: $72,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOVERNORS INAUGURAL FUND 2019: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAGRICULTURE COALITION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM: $37,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRODUCE FOR BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetClean Water and Jobs for California: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Western Growers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Growers Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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