North Carolina · Nonprofit
A GROWING CULTURE
A GROWING CULTURE (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,184,384 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($225,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $508k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $64k
What A Growing Culture does
Mission
We unite to reclaim agency over our foodways.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Partnerships - A Growing Culture (agc) meets the emerging needs of groups and organizations around the world to advance the struggle for food sovereignty. It provides strategic communications support, including writing, editing, graphic design, video production and editing, web development, and social media management. Agc co-creates narrative and advocacy campaigns, digital content, events, and publications. Additionally, it hosts trainings, workshops, and other methods of skill and capacity sharing for partner groups.
$241,366 spentof which $81,838 as grants50% of program spendingStorytelling - A Growing Culture creates open-access, free digital content across platforms to challenge and shift popular food narratives. Through this content, agc amplifies the voices of small-scale farmers, peasants, and indigenous peoples, providing space for them to share their struggles and solutions. In doing so, agc fosters a culture of awareness about the current and historical injustices in our food system and builds solidarity with communities seeding radical hope for a more just and dignified future.
$106,397 spent22% of program spendingPress outreach - with the goal of cultivating a more holistic and nuanced storytelling ecosystem, A Growing Culture bridges the gap between peasant and indigenous communities and the media. Agc facilitates emerging mutual support for both journalists and these communities through direct communication channels, press forums, media workshops, and newsletters. To date, agc has hosted six forums, broadcast in multiple languages, with over 700 journalists in attendance from more than 300 media outlets worldwide. Over 1,000 journalists have signed up for agc's press forums and have helped produce more than 200 published stories.
$135,330 spentof which $3,238 as grants28% of program spendingConnect
$384 spent$979 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $483,477.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $92k to $348k (+278%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Loren Cardeli
Executive director
Board chair
Dee Woods
Interim board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $50k.
9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A GROWING CULTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A GROWING CULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A GROWING CULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 65% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of A GROWING CULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
A GROWING CULTURE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $479k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like A GROWING CULTURE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A GROWING CULTURE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A GROWING CULTURE?
- A GROWING CULTURE (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,184,384 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($225,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A GROWING CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,184,384 in grants to A GROWING CULTURE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A GROWING CULTURE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A GROWING CULTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing