Texas · Private foundation
Whole Foods Market Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 141
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $9.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,510,906
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 31
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 76% of the organizations Whole Foods Market Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 139 | $9.3M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $4.9M | 76% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $5.3M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $5.9M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $3.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chef Ann Foundation | $1,510,906 | 1 | 7% |
| Wellness in the Schools Inc | $273,409 | 1 | 4% |
| The Bee Cause Project Inc | $225,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Newark Science and Sustainabil | $55,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Youth Farm and Market Project | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Houston Independent School District Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ubuntu Permaculture Mission Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 81% |
| Project Use | $19,950 | 1 | 5% |
| Gethsemane Community Garden | $9,200 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 164 recipients with no EIN on record ($26M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Whole Foods Market Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Whole Cities Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Levitt Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · The Kroger Co Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Whole Kids Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · UNFI Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation
How this is measured
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About Whole Foods Market Foundation
- How much does Whole Foods Market Foundation give?
- Whole Foods Market Foundation reported 141 itemized grants totaling $9,374,948, out of $11,942,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Whole Foods Market Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (50%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Community Improvement (3%).
- Who are Whole Foods Market Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Chef Ann Foundation ($1.5M), Wellness in the Schools Inc ($273k), The Bee Cause Project Inc ($225k).
- Does Whole Foods Market Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whole Foods Market 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 Whole Foods Market Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whole Cities Foundation, Clif Family Foundation, Levitt Foundation Inc.
- Where is Whole Foods Market Foundation based?
- Whole Foods Market Foundation is based in TX.
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