· Public charity
Farmers Market Fund
Helping under-served populations in oregon with greater access to healthy, locally grown food.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $177k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $719k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $820k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $2,132,461 |
| PACIFIC NW CSA COALITION | $302,048 |
| PORTLAND FARMERS MARKET | $251,126 |
| ROGUE VALLEY GROWERS | $171,990 |
| LANE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET | $144,499 |
| CORVALLIS ALBANY FARMERS MKT | $125,244 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON GROWERS ASSOC | $104,722 |
| HOLLYWOOD FARMERS MARKET | $78,586 |
| MONTAVILLA FARMERS MARKET | $78,373 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $63,590 |
| PEOPLES CO-OP FARMERS MARKET | $53,482 |
| BEND FARMERS MARKET | $41,820 |
| UMPQUA VALLEY FARMERS MARKET | $41,260 |
| SALEM SATURDAY MARKET | $41,142 |
| OREGON CITY FARMERS MARKET | $40,484 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
47 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
OREGON FOOD BANK5× · 2019–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +50%- PFPortland Farmers Market6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +16% · 41% of their budget
PACIFIC NW CSA COALITION6× · 2019–2024 · $801k · revenue +791% · 81% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCORVALLIS-ALBANY FARMERS' MARKETSone grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue +15%
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF OREGONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +96%- GFGRESHAM FARMER'S MARKET ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +88%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide a venue for local farmers and small businesses to sell their products, improve nutrition by providing greater access to fresh local produce, educate residents about nutrition and sustainable agriculture and to build community…
The adams county farmers market association is committed to building vibrant farmers' markets which support small-scale producers, enhance the communities we serve, assist families with access to fresh nutritious food and educate the…
The mission of Columbia Farmers Market is to provide a space for our vibrant community of growers, producers, and makers by supporting, educating, and expanding sustainable Mid-Missouri agriculture. By
Helping under-served populations in oregon with greater access to healthy, locally grown food.
To promote a healthy and vibrant community by providing access to local nourishing food and high-quality artisan products. We support over 200 small businesses by providing direct consumer access, business development support, and…
Exclusively for charitable, educationl and/or scientific purposes. to improve community health and provide support tp local farmers through year round market for local farm products.
To educate consumers about our food system, hold space for farmers and producers to interact directly with their customers, and partner with our local schools to promote healthy lifestyles and deeper community connection
To promote local food access to all community members, regardless of income, to support local farmers with a direct to consumer sales outlet, and to support consumer to producer relationship and education.
The Washington State Farmers Market Association (WSFMA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, membership organization whose mission is to support vibrant and sustainable farmers markets in Washington State through member services, education and advocacy.
A coalition of farmers markets serving rthe greater spokane area - raising public awareness and operating funds, centrally hiring and training staff, offering a ommon set of food access and education.
Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Oregon Growers Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Sugarloaf Community Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Portland Farmers Market ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NW CSA COALITION ↗
- Who funds COOS BAY DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON GROWERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds MONTAVILLA FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CEDAR MILL FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds BEAVERTON FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON CITY FARMER'S MARKET ↗
- Who funds Hillsboro Farmers Markets Inc ↗
- Who funds BEND FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds Hillsdale Farmers Market Inc ↗
- Who funds Oregon Farmers Markets Association ↗
- Who funds Salem Saturday Market ↗
- Who funds Cave Junction Farmers Market ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITYS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY SMALL FARMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds THE DALLES FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds PENDLETON FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WATERFRONT COMMUNITY RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS-ALBANY FARMERS' MARKETS ↗
- Who funds MCMINNVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Oregon Farmers Markets Association · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Farmers Market Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Farmers Markets Association — 90% of income from government
- Sugarloaf Community Association — 67% of income from government
- Montavilla Farmers Market — 32% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Antfarm Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Coos Bay Downtown Association — 21% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Portland Farmers Market — 7% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Pacific Nw Csa Coalition — 3% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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