· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 141 grants below total $9,374,948 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,942,085 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,567,137 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $581k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $510k
- $50k–250k50 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chef Ann Foundation | $1,510,906 |
| Rwanda G6 | $400,000 |
| Myanmar G6 | $300,000 |
| Wellness in the Schools | $273,409 |
| School Food Matters | $259,705 |
| Mali G2, Senegal G10, Cote d'Ivoire G3 | $250,000 |
| Burundi G7 | $250,000 |
| The Bee Cause Project | $225,000 |
| El Salvador G3 | $200,000 |
| Senegal G8 | $200,000 |
| Bangladesh G4 | $200,000 |
| BOMA Chad, Ethiopia G8, Burkina Faso G8 | $199,500 |
| Farm to Cafeteria Canada | $167,652 |
| Cote d'Ivoire G4, Burkina Faso G7 & Benin G1 | $150,000 |
| Guatemala G4 | $150,000 |
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.
9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 139 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.3M 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
- SGSenegal G8 - CAURIE2× · 2022–2023 · $700k
- ESEl Salvador G3 - ASEI2× · 2022–2023 · $500k
- BGBolivia G4 - Sembrar Sartawi2× · 2022–2023 · $400k
Funded once
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2021 · $5.9M
- MGMyanmar G4 - BRAC Myanmarone grant, 2022 · $500k
- TGTonga G2 - SPBD Tongaone grant, 2022 · $500k
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.
Sprout city farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. sprout city farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and…
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden cultivates healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning and creative play.
Farmshare Austin's mission is to grow a healthy, just and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers.
Urban Harvest is transforming food accessibility in Greater Houston through partnerships with local farmers and gardeners, vibrant Farmers Markets and mobile markets, and comprehensive garden education. Our goal is not just to improve, but…
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.
Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
prove asset to organic food
We work to expand access to local food for more people in the community through the purchase, aggregation, storage, marketing and delivery of fresh, safe, local food in partnership with local growers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Eats Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ujima. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 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. 59 of the 226 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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 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
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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