Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS
CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($280,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $774k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $750k
- Net assets
- $613k
What Center for Responsible Food Business does
Mission
Center for Responsible Food Business (the Organization) advocates for strong ethics and responsibility in the food sector through education, research, and corporate engagement programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, the Center for Responsible Food Business expanded its research, analysis, and public engagement around pressing issues in the food industry. We published in-depth articles and policy commentary on topics including food safety, chemical contamination, market consolidation, food labeling, and corporate animal welfare policies. Our team conducted investigative research into the practices of major food companies and examined the implications of regulatory actions, mergers, and supply chain standards on consumer welfare and public health. We launched targeted communications campaigns, such as our "no milk tax" initiative, designed to engage consumers, shift corporate behavior, and advance responsible food policies. Across these efforts, we used petitions, paid and organic media, and outreach to decision-makers to promote transparency, accountability, and better outcomes in the food system.
$219,904 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $219,904.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $99k to $621k (+527%).
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.
99% of CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Mark Middleton
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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
CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS.
“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.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS: 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 CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS?
- CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($280,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $750,000 in grants to CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS?
- GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FOOD BUSINESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing