California · Nonprofit
PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION
PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,059,500 to it, the largest being Open Philanthropy Action Fund ($6,875,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement 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.
- Animal Charity Evaluatorsshared fundersportfolio match
- The Quinn Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Humane America Animal Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
34% of PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $72k.
From the IRS filings of PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION’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
PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Animal Charity Evaluatorsshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Quinn Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchKS · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Humane America Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Karuna Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy for Animals Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vogt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nalith Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aceso Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tipping Point Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Founders Pledge Incshared fundersNY · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Good Ventures Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Georgetown Universityshared fundersDC · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $247 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $247
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 PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION?
- PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,059,500 to it, the largest being Open Philanthropy Action Fund ($6,875,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $7,059,500 in grants to PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION?
- Open Philanthropy Action Fund is the largest funder on record, with $6,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION 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 7funders 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