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

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Feeding America, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

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

$2.6B reached 2,572 food and agriculture organizations in California, from 6,696 funders. 54% came from funders also based in California.

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 · California · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in California

$2.6B reached 2,572 food and agriculture organizations in California, from 6,696 funders, with no single one dominating.

$2.6B

granted

2,572

organizations

54%

from in-state

The short version

6,696 funders gave $2.6B to 2,572 food and agriculture organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
54% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in California is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $227M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, at $348M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in California

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$227M 2Feeding America$150M 3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$131M 4American Online Giving Foundation Inc$105M 5Silicon Valley Community Foundation$97M 6Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$48M 7Agency on AgingArea 4$41M 8Ecology Center$38M 9The Albertsons Companies Foundation$37M 10National Philanthropic Trust$33M

Food and agriculture organizations in California that draw the most

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

2,562 other food and agriculture organizations$1.6B

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$348M San Francisco Food Bank$146M Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$121M

How to find food and agriculture funders in California

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Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in California are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Feeding America, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. 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
46% of food and agriculture money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Feeding America, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in California?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in California, $227M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in California?: $2.6B reached 2,572 food and agriculture organizations in California, from 6,696 funders. 54% came from funders also based in California.
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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

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.