Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT
THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,792 to it, the largest being THE WILLARY FOUNDATION ($72,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $425k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $160k
What The Food Dignity Project does
Mission
Food dignity fd creates new markets for smaller local farmers to establish food and health equity in the community. Fd supports the development of a robust regional food supply chain offering dignified access to nutritious food through collaboration, education, research, and outreach with community partners.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Donation-based produce standsfood digninty held 47 take what you need pay what you can produce stands serving 10,047 indivduals from march-november 2024. Fd invested 82,980.83 into the palocal agriculture economy and food system by purchasing 90,928 pounds of produce from local farmers for these donation-based farm stands. Fd prevented crop loss by purchasing produce grown in excess of market demand and paying a fair price to ensure the pa farmer had a successful season. Farmers continue to report the most valuable aspects of our programming are reliable produce purchasing, reduction of food waste, and steady income during otherwise uncertain seasons.
$193,699 spentof which $181,316 as grants44% of program spendingConnect program food dignity partners with 15 non-profit community direct service providers to distribute locally sourced food to their clients receiving services such as mental health, housing, career fairs, substance use disorder recovery, and other critical services. The community providers continue to report increased participation rates at job fairs, medical visits, counseling visits, and community engagement programs due to on-site produce availability. We served 119,028 pounds of locally sourced produce, beef, pork, chickens, and eggs to over 72,800 individuals in 2024.
$222,935 spentof which $201,305 as grants50% of program spendingFood dignity education food dignity movement impacts a variety of national industry sectors with 26 keynotes, 40,093 food dignity podcast listeners, and 1456 food dignity educational resoures downloaded. We conducted a community wide think tank attended by 30 nepa organizations and 4 local farmers. Fd is a member of google food lab and tufts innovation platform and presented at both events.
$25,204 spentof which $18,708 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $441,838.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $67k to $219k (+226%).
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: 2023 62% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Clancy Cash Harrison
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $62k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT’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
THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 91% · 2022 71% · 2023 59% — 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
40% of THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
80% of THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT: 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 THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT?
- THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,792 to it, the largest being THE WILLARY FOUNDATION ($72,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $266,792 in grants to THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT?
- THE WILLARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $72,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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