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FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC

FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,292,780 to it, the largest being GRANTHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2024
23
Funders on record
$3.3M
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
9/23 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($366k) Expenses 100 ($390k) Net assets 100 ($169k)2018 Revenue 136 ($498k) Expenses 98 ($381k) Net assets 170 ($286k)2019 Revenue 91 ($332k) Expenses 110 ($430k) Net assets 112 ($189k)2020 Revenue 397 ($1.5M) Expenses 276 ($1.1M) Net assets 337 ($568k)2021 Revenue 95 ($348k) Expenses 158 ($618k) Net assets 177 ($298k)2022 Revenue 61 ($224k) Expenses 101 ($395k) Net assets 62 ($105k)2023 Revenue 271 ($992k) Expenses 85 ($333k) Net assets 453 ($764k)2024 Revenue 359 ($1.3M) Expenses 237 ($925k) Net assets 685 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (359)Expenses (237)Net assets (685)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
17
$118k
18
$98k
19
$379k
20
$270k
21
$171k
22
$659k
23
$390k
24
14
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $350k → $510k.

10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)50% 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 FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC’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

FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

52% 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 FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC.

15%
largest funder
43%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 61% · 2019 40% · 2020 63% · 2021 69% · 2022 37% · 2023 98%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 FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.

MI
NY
MA
CA
MD
DE
AR
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 10%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC: 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 FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC?
FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,292,780 to it, the largest being GRANTHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,292,780 in grants to FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC?
GRANTHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing