About Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation
Helping kids grow healthy through nutrition education and hands-on gardening programs that teach children how to grow and prepare fresh, nutritious foods and develop healthy eating habits.
Focus Areas
Nutrition educationSchool gardensChildren's health and wellnessCommunity nutrition accessEducator support and stipends
Who They Fund
Title I and chronically underfunded K-12 schools (elementary and middle)PTAs, school districts and school-based programseducators and school garden coordinatorsurban and local communities served by mobile markets and community agriculture
Funding Style
multi-year grants
About Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation
The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation centers its giving on school gardens, nutrition education, and hands-on food learning for children. Recent large grants show that this is not limited to small local projects: the foundation backed multi-year impact awards to Life Lab Science Program, Out Teach, and The Walls Project, alongside community nutrition and garden programs tied to schools and youth-serving organizations. The pattern is practical and program-specific. Grants support classroom cooking, outdoor classrooms, garden installation, and related education work that helps children grow, prepare, and understand fresh food. Several awards also point to a field-building approach. The foundation funded capacity-building work for Life Lab and supported school-garden movement infrastructure through Nopi and Garden School Foundation. Other grants show attention to recovery and community resilience, including relief funding through Volunteer Florida Foundation and support for Hurricane Relief. The overall picture is a foundation that gives through a mix of multi-year program commitments, project grants, and targeted support for school-based and community-based initiatives.
What Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation Funds
School gardens are a clear theme. The foundation gave $225,470 to Garden School Foundation Inc for a one-year impact grant, and it also supported the organization in prior years for cafeteria-to-compost work, showing interest in garden-related learning and food-system practices connected to schools. Education outside the classroom is another emphasis. A $750,000 grant to Out Teach supported a 2024 to 2027 impact grant, and an earlier $82,547 award funded the design and installation of a custom outdoor classroom. Those grants align with experiential learning linked to garden and outdoor classroom settings. The foundation also backs community nutrition work. It gave $250,000 to Hebni Nutritional Consultants Inc and $300,000 to Partners for Education Agriculture and Sustainability for a three-year grant. Both fit the foundation’s focus on nutrition access, hands-on programming, and community-based support for children.
How Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation Gives
Typical grants fall in a middle range: the 25th percentile is $10,000, the median is $20,000, and the 75th percentile is $37,900. The recent grant list also shows a much wider spread for flagship awards, including several six- and seven-figure commitments. Multi-year support is common, with repeated year-by-year funding shown in the purpose notes for several grants. The foundation is a regular funder rather than a DAF, and it does accept unsolicited applications through its active grant programs. Those programs are structured around set amounts of $5,000 to $10,000 for school gardens and community healthy-kids work.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$18.2M
Total Assets
$6M
Total Revenue
$14M
Total Expenses
$15.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $38K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$38K
Geographic Reach
National26 states funded
About 16% of grants go to recipients in MD.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
BRANDON LOMBARDI
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