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UNFI Foundation

UNFI Foundation (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$768k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
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 ($622k) Expenses 100 ($625k) Net assets 100 ($19k)2018 Revenue 112 ($694k) Expenses 104 ($648k) Net assets 343 ($65k)2019 Revenue 295 ($1.8M) Expenses 192 ($1.2M) Net assets 3970 ($757k)2020 Revenue 79 ($492k) Expenses 130 ($810k) Net assets 2305 ($440k)2021 Revenue 290 ($1.8M) Expenses 233 ($1.5M) Net assets 4103 ($783k)2022 Revenue 188 ($1.2M) Expenses 217 ($1.4M) Net assets 3131 ($597k)2023 Revenue 241 ($1.5M) Expenses 216 ($1.3M) Net assets 3919 ($747k)2024 Revenue 326 ($2.0M) Expenses 316 ($2.0M) Net assets 4186 ($798k)2025 Revenue 323 ($2.0M) Expenses 327 ($2.0M) Net assets 4028 ($768k)
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Revenue (323)Expenses (327)Net assets (4028)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $837k to $2.2M (+165%).

$109k
$293k
$781k
$440k
$846k
$761k
$768k
$837k
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Alisha Real

Executive Director

Board chair

Matt Echols

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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Listed81313121110131313
Joined·+6+4+2+0+1+7+2+0
No longer listed·14312420
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of UNFI Foundation’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

UNFI Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

UNFI Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 2 states in all.

MN
MO

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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

UNFI Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve11.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like UNFI Foundation

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 Rhode Island

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04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNFI Foundation?
UNFI Foundation (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNFI Foundation have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500 in grants to UNFI Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNFI Foundation?
ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNFI Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2 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