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

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc, 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 New York from out of state.

Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in New York?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in New York, $133M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in New York?

$1.8B reached 1,400 food and agriculture organizations in New York, from 5,998 funders. 45% came from funders also based in New York.

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 · New York · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in New York

New York's food and agriculture organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 4 funders each.

$1.8B

granted

1,400

organizations

45%

from in-state

The short version

5,998 funders gave $1.8B to 1,400 food and agriculture organizations in New York across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
45% of that came from funders also based in New York; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in New York is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $133M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is City Harvest Inc, at $244M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in New York

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$133M 2International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$133M 3Feeding America$77M 4Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc$74M 5Citymeals-On-Wheels$53M 6Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$45M 7Jewish Communal Fund$35M 8The William H Miner Foundation$32M 9Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$30M 10Robin Hood Foundation$30M

Food and agriculture organizations in New York that draw the most

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

1,390 other food and agriculture organizations$990M

City Harvest Inc$244M Citymeals-On-Wheels$68M God's Love We Deliver Inc$56M Myagro Farms$41M

How to find food and agriculture funders in New York

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Start with the funders already active in New York
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in New York are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc, Feeding America. 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
55% of food and agriculture money in New York comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New York.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in New York?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc, 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 New York from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in New York?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in New York, $133M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in New York?: $1.8B reached 1,400 food and agriculture organizations in New York, from 5,998 funders. 45% came from funders also based in New York.
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.