Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Rodale Institute
Rodale Institute (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,716,226 to it, the largest being JHC Foundation ($7,500,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Rodale Institute holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- Everhope Foundationportfolio match
- Regenerative Agriculture 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 9% · 2019 18% · 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 24% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Rodale Institute’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $229k → $5.3M.
19 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Rodale Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 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
Rodale Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 15% · 2019 42% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 29% — 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
60% of Rodale Institute'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
Rodale Institute draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
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 118 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 163 organizations that share your funders
- Everhope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regenerative Agriculture Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Visions Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Communications Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aceso Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Delta Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lydia B Stokes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 93 organizations that share your funders
- The Pew Charitable Trustsshared fundersDC · backs 126 organizations that share your funders
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New Yorkshared fundersNY · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 80 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 Rodale Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.4M on record — $28.4M federal, $225 state.
- Department of Agriculture$28.4M
- DEDICATED$225
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 Rodale Institute
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Beneficial Interest in Perpetual Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rodale Institute: 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 Rodale Institute?
- Rodale Institute (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,716,226 to it, the largest being JHC Foundation ($7,500,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rodale Institute have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $26,716,226 in grants to Rodale Institute, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rodale Institute?
- JHC Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rodale Institute 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.
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 118funders 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