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A Well-Fed World
Washington, DC · EIN 27-0865905. Reported 83 grants totalling $3,450,973 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For A Well-Fed World, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 34% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $44,000; the smallest was $5,120 and the largest $281,080. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Fund for Africa | Fairfax, VA | $495,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Proveg International Incorporated | Pittsfield, MA | $305,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Legal Impact for Chickens | Sacramento, CA | $281,080 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Veggie Mijas | Oakland, CA | $271,168 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Richman Law Group Fellowship Jay Shooster | Brooklyn, NY | $212,506 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Maitufoods | Lithonia, GA | $177,100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Better Health Better Life Inc | Baltimore, MD | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Veltree the Vegan Experience | Charlotte, NC | $163,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Awali Inc | Lithonia, GA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Richman Law Group Factory Farming Fellowship | Brooklyn, NY | $128,534 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Migrant Kitchen Incorporated | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Vegetarian Society of Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Yorkshire Advisory LLC | Wellesley Hills, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Thrive Philanthropy Incorporated | Albany, NY | $47,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| By Any Greens Necessary | Arlington, VA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bluegrass Vegfest | Louisville, KY | $40,959 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | Berkeley, CA | $40,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| International Council for Animal Welfare Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Black Vegan Experience (via Committee of Consiousness) | Chester, VA | $36,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Unity Collective | Miami, FL | $36,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faunaccion Educacion | Atlanta, GA | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Hen House | Rochester, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vegan Ingenuity | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reducetarian Foundation Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $28,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Animal & Vegan Advocacy International Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Askew Pictures | Dover, DE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The T Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies | Webster, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vegan Living Program | Baton Rouge, LA | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tribe of Heart Ltd | Ithaca, NY | $20,001 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Help Animals India | Lk Forest Pk, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ideas for US | Orlando, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indraloka Animal Sanctuary | Dalton, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Plant Based Foods Association | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vegan Soulfest | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Africa Network for Animal Welfare- USA | Denver, CO | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Seed Programs Inc | Asheville, NC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Greener Kitchen | Baltimore, MD | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| CASA Vegana LLC | San Juan, PR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Free From Harm | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vegetarians of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beyond Carnism Inc | Orlando, FL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Just World | Spokane, WA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brighter Green Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Free From Harm Nfp | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leaders for Ethics Animal and the Planet | Colfax, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peace Advocacy Network | Bala Cynwyd, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Plant the Power | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Planted Society | Pflugerville, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Power Is Giving Inc | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vietnam Animal Aid and Rescue- US | Mobile, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Voters for Animal Rights Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Youth Climate Save (genesis for Animals) | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Roots Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Holistic Wellness and Health | Baltimore, MD | $6,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ala Advancing Law for Animals a California Humane Society | Redondo Beach, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Jewish Food Ethics | Erie, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vine-Veganism Is the Next Evolution Incorporated | Springfield, VT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue Trunk Community Garden Inc | Saint Cloud, FL | $5,505 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fruit Tree Planting Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $5,120 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
16 of 59 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Proveg International
Plant-Based Food Advocacy
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 24 | $1,090,731 | $16,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $1,261,414 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 25 | $784,528 | $10,001 |
| 2024 | 13 | $314,300 | $23,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
20% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from A Well-Fed World's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1717 N St Nw Ste 1 Only Gov T Mail, Washington, DC, 20036.
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