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Wholesome Wave Inc

Wholesome wave, inc.

$417k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$170k
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$3.7MHealth$249kEnvironment$35kCommunity Improvement$25kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$912k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABOUT FRESH$169,696
HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL$95,750
THE CORBIN HILL FOOD PROJECT INC$20,000
BUFFALO GO GREEN INC$20,000
LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER$20,000
HMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
ALAMEDIA COUNTY RECIPE4HEALTH$10,000
HEBNI NUTRITION CONSULTANTS INC$10,000
GREEN RURAL REDEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION$10,000
MELTING POT FOUNDATION USA INC$10,000
SICANGU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
INDIGEHUB$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $88k → 20%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $76k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $58k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 30 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
39

Total granted

$2.8M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+48%

Still filing today

83%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Food & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MF
    Maine Farmland Trust
    2× · 2017–2018 · $292k · revenue +134%
  • SE
    SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $212k · revenue +438%
  • PEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $164k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • CS
    C-TOWN SUPERMARKET
    one grant, 2020 · $106k
  • TC
    THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +186%
  • TC
    TARGET CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $65k
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
Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
Chicago's Green City Market Program

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Coastal Foodshed

A public health initiative working to make healthy local foods more available, more accessible, and more familiar by connecting local growers with local consumers as well as providing education around local food, nutrition, and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Local Food Solutions

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
6
Farmer Foodshare Inc

Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
7
Farmers Market Fund

Helping under-served populations in oregon with greater access to healthy, locally grown food.

Food & Nutrition
8
Mill City Farmers Market Inc

Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…

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9
Heart of the City Farmers Market

The organization operates a certified farmers market in san francisco to address food insercurity and support local small-scale agriculture, provides nutrition education outreach, and distributes over 1 million annually in food assistance…

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10
Community Farmers Markets Inc

To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…

Food & Nutrition
11
Uptown Farmers Market

Our mission is to engage our neighbors around locally grown, fresh foods to support local farmers and food artisans, educate on healthy eating, and eliminate food insecurity in our charlotte community.

Food & Nutrition
12
Feed Hawaii

Feed hawaii's mission is to support a sustainable regional food system by providing essential services and resources for local food producers and increasing community access to fresh healthy food.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Research Foundation. 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

57 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. 57 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/57
Grantees still filing
40/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maine Farmland Trust: $292,168 · Food & NutritionMaine Farmland TrustHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC: $173,911 · Food & NutritionHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INCABOUT FRESH INC: $169,696 · Food & NutritionABOUT FRESH INCLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP: $162,577 · Food & NutritionLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEA…FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $139,835 · Food & NutritionFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INCWHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC: $102,224 · Food & NutritionWHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INCVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC: $94,380 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INCFONDY FOOD CENTER INC: $83,697 · Food & NutritionFONDY FOOD CENTER INCTHE CORBIN HILL FOOD PROJECT INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $60,000 · Food & NutritionHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Food & Nutrition+10 more: $162,431 · Food & Nutrition+10 morePRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INC: $140,338 · OtherPRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INCC-TOWN SUPERMARKET: $105,885 · OtherC-TOWN SUPERMARKETCOMMUNITY FOODWORKS: $90,830 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOODWORKSDAVE'S SUPERMARKET: $83,585 · OtherDAVE'S SUPERMARKETGEORGE WASHINGTON REGIONAL COMMISSION: $67,544 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON REGIONAL COMMIS…TARGET CORPORATION: $65,279 · OtherTARGET CORPORATIONOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $53,171 · OtherEND HUNGER CT: $53,039 · OtherCHURCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES: $42,500 · OtherEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC: $49,242 · OtherWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $45,000 · Other+25 more: $405,085 · Other+25 morePEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH: $164,400 · HealthPEDIATRIC AND…HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $155,206 · HealthHISPANIC HEAL…SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $55,200 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO…KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $42,828 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI …Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc: $32,000 · HealthJessie Trice …ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Health+2 more: $14,130 · HealthSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES: $212,050 · Community ImprovementSID PUBLIC SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $22,400 · Community ImprovementWEBB CITY FARMERS MARKET: $17,004 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $16,535 · Community ImprovementGREEN RURAL REDEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSicangu Community Development Corporation: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $133,980 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $88,300 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: $147,100 · Arts & CultureSANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO GO GREEN INC: $60,000 · EducationHEIRLOOM FARMERS MARKETS INC: $57,382 · Education
Food & Nutrition$1,560,919Other$1,201,498Health$481,764Community Improvement$287,989Human Services$222,280Arts & Culture$157,100Education$117,382

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $292,168 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES: $212,050 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC: $173,911 over 3y, 13% of budgetPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH: $164,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP: $162,577 over 2y, 17% of budgetHISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $155,206 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: $147,100 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INC: $140,338 over 2y, 20% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $139,835 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $133,980 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC: $102,224 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC: $94,380 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOODWORKS: $90,830 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $88,300 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFONDY FOOD CENTER INC: $83,697 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE CORBIN HILL FOOD PROJECT INC: $60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBUFFALO GO GREEN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHEIRLOOM FARMERS MARKETS INC: $57,382 over 2y, 13% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $55,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $53,171 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC: $49,242 over 1y, 11% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $42,828 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $34,573 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation: $32,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJessie Trice Community Health System Inc: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH APPROACH: $24,916 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFarmers Market Of The Ozarks Inc: $23,368 over 2y, 10% of budgetFLORIDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC GROWERS AND CONSUMERS INC: $22,788 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARYLAND FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION: $22,724 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMEMPHIS TILTH: $22,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSID PUBLIC SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $22,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $18,830 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $16,535 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR FOOD: $14,021 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS: $13,603 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREEN RURAL REDEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBNI NUTRITION CONSULTANTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSicangu Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMELTING POT FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARCADIA FOOD INC: $9,240 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetURBAN OASIS PROJECT INC: $7,645 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fair Food Network IncFarm Aid IncAmerican Heart Associ…Share Our StrengthThe Reinvestment Fund…Clif Family FoundationUNFI FoundationNational League of Ci…The Rockefeller Found…National Foundation f…The Conservation Fund…Henry P Kendall Found…
Fair Food Network IncMI29.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fair Food Network Inc · Farm Aid Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Share Our Strength · The Reinvestment Fund Inc · Clif Family Foundation · UNFI Foundation · National League of Cities Institute Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Henry P Kendall Foundation

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 Wholesome Wave Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wholesome Wave Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
  • Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Urban Oasis Project Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Vermont Farm-to-School Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 77 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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