Ralston Family Farms
Grant in 2025
Ralston Family Farms specializes in artisan rice products produced using regenerative farming principles.
Campbell Soup Company
Grant in 2024
The Campbell Soup Company is a prominent manufacturer and marketer of branded convenience food products. It operates in five segments, including U.S. Simple Meals, Global Baking and Snacking, International Simple Meals and Beverages, U.S. Beverages, and North America Foodservice. Established over 150 years ago, the company's portfolio has expanded beyond its iconic canned soup to include snacks, other simple meals, and beverages. Its brands encompass Pepperidge Farm, Goldfish, Snyder's of Hanover, Swanson, Pacific Foods, Prego, Pace, V8, and Rao's.
American Foods Group
Grant in 2024
American Foods Group is a Green Bay, Wisconsin-based meat processing company that produces and distributes fresh beef and a range of processed meat products, including beef, fish, pork, poultry, and sausage. It serves retailers and consumers with high-quality meat options.
McCain Foods USA
Grant in 2023
McCain Foods sells frozen potato and snack food products to the foodservice industry. Wallace and Harrison McCain founded McCain Foods with their brothers Robert and Andrew in 1957. McCain Foods has expanded their offerings and its reach since its humble beginnings. Restaurants and supermarket freezers across the country offer everything from appetizers to sweet potato fries.
Grandy Organics
Grant in 2023
Grandy Organics offers grain free granola, trail mix, roasted nuts, granola, and grandy pantry on online and wholesale basis.
Eat Just, Inc., founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California, focuses on creating plant-based food products aimed at improving the food system. The company offers a variety of items, including plant-based scrambled eggs, flavored mayonnaise, dressings, cookie doughs, and meat alternatives. Their flagship product, JUST Egg, has garnered significant recognition, being featured in lists such as Popular Science's "100 Greatest Innovations." Eat Just emphasizes innovation through a unique discovery platform for food ingredients, combining scientific research with culinary expertise from Michelin-starred chefs. The company has been acknowledged in various prestigious lists, including Fast Company’s "Most Innovative Companies" and Entrepreneur’s "100 Brilliant Companies."
Todd Family Meats
Grant in 2023
Todd Family Meats bringing families together, one nutritious meal at a time.
Maple Hill Creamery
Grant in 2022
Maple Hill Creamery, LLC, founded in 2009 and based in Stuyvesant, New York, is a farm-family owned dairy manufacturer specializing in 100% grass-fed whole milk dairy products. The company is recognized as a leader in the grass-fed dairy category and was the first to achieve the Pennsylvania Certified Organic 100% Grassfed Certification. Maple Hill Creamery produces a range of organic products, including Greek and drinkable yogurts, which are distributed through national and regional channels. The company is committed to promoting healthy lifestyles for both consumers and cows, emphasizing the benefits of grass-fed dairy farming for animal welfare, land fertility, and farmer prosperity.
Avena Botanicals
Grant in 2019
Avena Botanicals makes herbal products using fresh, organic & biodynamic herbs.They believe that these vital plants and a sacred connection to place promote wellness of the body, mind, and spirit and encourage humans to be mindful and loving stewards of the Earth. Their herbs are hand-harvested in the spirit of joy and immediately processed in their on-site production facility in Rockport, Maine. All of their herbal products are hand-crafted and will always be made in this artisanal way. After over three decades in business, they remain committed to offering the highest quality, traditionally-crafted herbal products possible.
Vermont Farmers Food Center
Vermont Farmers Food Center increases access and availability of locally produced food in the Rutland Region through education, expanding markets and market access, aggregation, and distribution of locally produced and value added agricultural products.