How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Alabama?

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Alabama, currently Feeding America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Lucille S Beeson Char Tr Bond Mgmt. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Alabama from out of state.

Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Alabama?

Feeding America gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Alabama, $39M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Alabama?

$152M reached 246 food and agriculture organizations in Alabama, from 653 funders. 34% came from funders also based in Alabama.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Alabama · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in Alabama

$152M reached 246 food and agriculture organizations in Alabama, from 653 funders, with no single one dominating.

$152M

granted

246

organizations

34%

from in-state

The short version

653 funders gave $152M to 246 food and agriculture organizations in Alabama across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
34% of that came from funders also based in Alabama; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in Alabama is Feeding America, at $39M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Feeding the Gulf Coast, at $34M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in Alabama

The funders giving the most to food and agriculture organizations in Alabama, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Feeding America$39M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$20M 3Lucille S Beeson Char Tr Bond Mgmt$8M 4Feeding Alabama$7M 5Network for Good$7M 6The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham$4M 7United Way of Central Alabama Inc$3M 8Alfa Foundation$3M 9Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Inc$2M 10Alabama Credit Union Foundation Inc$2M

Food and agriculture organizations in Alabama that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Feeding the Gulf Coast$34M

236 other food and agriculture organizations$29M

Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc$25M Community Food Bank of Central Alabama$23M Food Bank of North Alabama Inc$17M Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission$12M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Alabama

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Start with the funders already active in Alabama
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in Alabama are Feeding America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Lucille S Beeson Char Tr Bond Mgmt. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
66% of food and agriculture money in Alabama comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Alabama.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Alabama?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Alabama, currently Feeding America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Lucille S Beeson Char Tr Bond Mgmt. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Alabama from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Alabama?: Feeding America gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Alabama, $39M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Alabama?: $152M reached 246 food and agriculture organizations in Alabama, from 653 funders. 34% came from funders also based in Alabama.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.