Georgia · Nonprofit
FOOD WELL ALLIANCE
FOOD WELL ALLIANCE (Georgia) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,083,644 to it, the largest being JAMES M COX FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ($12,693,660). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Food Well Alliance does
Mission
Food Well Alliance provides resources and support to local growers to connect and build healthier communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Food Well Alliance is a collaborative network of local leaders working together to build thriving community gardens and urban farms across metro atlanta. We support farmers and gardeners and connect people to where their food is grown. Our vision is an equitable, local food ecosystem in whicheveryone can participate and benefit.we accomplish our work through two primary programs: resource center- through our resource center, we provide resources and support that local growers most need- things like volunteers, labor assistance, tools, tractor lending, training, grants and bulk quantities of compost. We directly support 300 community gardens and urban farms in fulton, dekalb, cobb, gwinnett, and clayton counties.city agriculture planning- this program connects growers and communities with city officials to develop plans prioritizing urban agriculture.
$2,638,357 spentof which $551,283 as grants$318,245 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,638,357.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.3M to $3.8M (+69%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 4% · 2023 79% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FOOD WELL ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Katherine Conner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $2.4M.
5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 WELL ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
FOOD WELL ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 82% · 2022 79% · 2023 83% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of FOOD WELL ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
94% of FOOD WELL ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FOOD WELL ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FOOD WELL ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$873k
- Environmental Protection Agency$140k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FOOD WELL ALLIANCE
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD WELL ALLIANCE: 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 WELL ALLIANCE?
- FOOD WELL ALLIANCE (Georgia) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,083,644 to it, the largest being JAMES M COX FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ($12,693,660). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD WELL ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $15,083,644 in grants to FOOD WELL ALLIANCE, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD WELL ALLIANCE?
- JAMES M COX FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,693,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD WELL ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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