· Private foundation
Whole Kids 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $4,101,235 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,209,082 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $107,847 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $342k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL GARDEN GRANTS | $1,775,107 |
| CHEF ANN FOUNDATION | $995,454 |
| WCF Fresh Health Food Access | $826,686 |
| THE BEE CAUSE PROJECT | $232,450 |
| PEAS | $60,000 |
| Youth Farm | $50,000 |
| Slow Food USA | $32,000 |
| NOPI-Nonprofit Incubator | $25,000 |
| Urban Strategies, Inc | $25,000 |
| Tides Center | $25,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | $20,000 |
| SCHOOL GARDEN REVIEW PROCESS | $16,160 |
| Wellness in the Schools | $14,885 |
| Zenger Farm | $3,000 |
| Deep Roots Garden | $493 |
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 +131% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
- CACHEF ANN FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue ×15
- TBTHE BEE CAUSE PROJECT INC3× · 2021–2023 · $716k · revenue +52% · 49% of their budget
- WIWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $59k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- WFWCF Fresh Healthy Food Accessone grant, 2021 · $768k
- SFSchool Food Mattersone grant, 2022 · $178k
- YFYouth Farm and Market Projectone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -68%
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.
To cultivate healthy farm and food connections in classrooms, cafeterias, and communities.
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.
To educate and inpspire young adults to promote environmentally conscious & socially responsible choices.
Real Food for Kids' mission is to change eating behaviors and improve health outcomes for children and families in the Greater Washington Region through sustainable access to real whole foods, impactful nutrition education, and local…
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
Kids In Nutrition (KIN) is a nationwide student-led movement dedicated to food justice, sustainable systems, and improved health outcomes for youth through food literacy and access. Recognizing that lifelong habits develop early, KIN…
We empower food service programs and school districts to make food delicious, nourishing, and responsible through our evidence-based certification program. We provide education and support that inspires students, schools, and communities…
Together with communities, foodcorps serves to connect kids to healthy food in schools.
The Foundation for Food and Farm Connections is a 501c3 nonprofit, dedicated to sharing the farm and nutrition story in schools, while promoting local farm sourcing in the cafeteria. To empower kids with knowledge for food systems and…
Our mission is to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Farm and Market Project and the most unlike its peers is The Edible Schoolyard Project dba the Alice Waters Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BEE CAUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Youth Farm and Market Project ↗
- Who funds ROOTS FOR THE HOME TEAM ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 100cameras ↗
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: Whole Foods Market Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
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