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· Public charity
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.
$2.3M
Granted FY2024
55
Grants
1
Communities
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 55 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $240k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $399k
$9,999
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
- GODSPEED HOLLOW$40,000
- DD RANCH LLC$40,000
- ZOE BRADBURY DESURRA$40,000
- BOHEMIA FOOD HUB$37,528
- CHICKADEE FARM LLC$35,578
- BLACK FOOD SOVEREIGNTY COAL$33,350
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
South Corvallis Food Bank
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis
Food & Nutrition
2
Black Farmers Market
Support Black Farmers via programs and services
Human Services
3
Oregon Farmers Markets Association
Promote, support, and develop farmers markets in oregon. provide services and educational assistance to association members.
Food & Nutrition
4
Cumberland County Food Security Council
To initiate and facilitate collaborative action toward a just, resilient, and sustainable food system that ensures equitable access for all peoplle to enough healthy food.
Food & Nutrition
5
Piscataquis Regional Food Center
Connecting rural people to sources of healthy food and stimulating the local agricultural economy.
Food & Nutrition
6
Foodwise Community
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We achieve this through the operation of farmers markets and food education programs.
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7
Hillsdale Farmers Market Inc
To provide a consistent source of fresh, locally grown and produced foods for Southwest Portland neighborhoods. To create a sales outlet for local family farms and food producers while building community understanding of small agriculture…
Food & Nutrition
8
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets
MFFM's Mission is to cultivate a vibrant sustainable farmers' market community, as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The Federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown foods available to…
Food & Nutrition
9
The Farm Collaborative
Connecting children and community to nature through farming and food in order to solve global climate challenge with local production through education
Education
10
Farmers Market Fund
Providing low income, elderly, and under-served populations in the region to increase access to healthy, locally grown food.
Food & Nutrition
11
Tacoma Farmers Market
The mission of the Tacoma Farmers Market is to provide a sustainable market venue where local farms and small businesses can connect directly with consumers and the community. In doing so, our three markets support our vision of:…
Human Services
12
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
The maine organic farmers and gardeners association is transforming our food system by supporting farmers, empowering people to feed their communities and advocating for an organic future.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Coast Food Web and the most unlike its peers is Bohemia Food Hub. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$978,068Food & Nutrition$211,986Community Improvement$51,789Education$51,046
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.
The Oregon Community FoundationOR13.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- North Coast Food Web — 28% of income from government
- Bohemia Food Hub — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JOSEPHINE COUNTY FARM COLLECT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 921821066 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on JOSEPHINE COUNTY FARM COLLECT, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Oregon Community Food System Network?
Find your warmest path to Oregon Community Food System Network through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines