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Oregon Community Food System Network
The oregon community food systems network brings people and organizations together to broaden understanding of issues, build relationships and trust, develop common purpose, and create collective capacity to realize our shared vision.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 55 grants below total $1,292,889 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,286,224 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $993,335 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $240k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD GROCERIES LLC | $75,000 |
| JOSEPHINE COUNTY FARM COLLECT | $75,000 |
| CENTOR PROVISIONS | $74,787 |
| GEORGE FARMER COLLECTIVE | $68,000 |
| LANE COUNTY BOUNTY | $54,905 |
| CLATSKANIE FARMERS MARKET | $51,046 |
| FEEDEM FREEDOM | $45,807 |
| CASAD FAMILY FARMS | $40,873 |
| SAKARI FARMS | $40,396 |
| ZOE BRADBURY DESURRA | $40,000 |
| DD RANCH LLC | $40,000 |
| GODSPEED HOLLOW | $40,000 |
| BOHEMIA FOOD HUB | $37,528 |
| CHICKADEE FARM LLC | $35,578 |
| BLACK FOOD SOVEREIGNTY COAL | $33,350 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
The NWF2F DBA Minority Growers Collective is a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit founded in February of 2021 to meet the education, training, and financial assistance needs of agricultural growers and producers of color and meet the needs of…
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.
Educate about,support, and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture
To increase the consumption of and production of organically grown produce in our local region by supporting farms via events and markets where they can connect with new customers. additionally create and participate in educational…
The mission of the Hollywood Farmers Market is to celebrate the bounty of Oregon and Washington agriculture through the operation of a community based farmers market and other ventures that support small farmers and healthy urban…
Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…
Through radical, no-strings-attached giving, EGC disrupts systemic inequality by funding community-led projects, including sustainable food security programs, housing support, and wellness initiatives
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Coast Food Web and the most unlike its peers is Cascade Pacific Rc&D Area. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 55 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.
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust
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 Oregon Community Food System Network 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.
- Central Coast Food Web — 100% of income from government
- Bohemia Food Hub — 43% 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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Find your warmest path to Oregon Community Food System Network through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.