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Who funds food and agriculture in Michigan

$676M reached 820 food and agriculture organizations in Michigan, from 1,835 funders, with no single one dominating.

$676M
granted
820
organizations
68%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of food and agriculture in Michigan

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

1Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc$94M2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$70M3Feeding America$41M4Michigan Dairymens Market Program$33M5Michigan Foundation for Agriculture$33M6Michigan Health Endowment Fund$21M7WK Kellogg Foundation$20M8Dairy Promotion Inc$17M9Senior Resources of West Michigan$15M10Ford Philanthropy$12M

Food and agriculture organizations in Michigan that draw the most

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

810 other food and agriculture organizations$266M
Forgotten Harvest Inc$87MGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$81MFood Bank of Eastern Michigan$69MFeeding America West Michigan$37MMichigan Farm Bureau$32MFair Food Network Inc$29M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Michigan

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Michigan

    The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in Michigan are Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Feeding America. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 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. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    32% of food and agriculture money in Michigan comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Michigan.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Michigan?
Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Michigan, currently Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Feeding America. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Michigan from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Michigan?
Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Michigan, $94M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Michigan?
$676M reached 820 food and agriculture organizations in Michigan, from 1,835 funders. 68% came from funders also based in Michigan.
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.