Oregon · Nonprofit
A Greener World
A Greener World (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,917,125 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($5,812,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What A Greener World does
Mission
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable farming systems. A Greener World's mission has four key components: 1. To identify and promote agricultural systems that have a positive impact on the environment, society and animals wild and farmed 2. To educate consumers about the environmental, social and animal outcomes of their food purchasing decisions 3. To establish and promote trusted farm certification programs that help reconnect the consumer and food producer by encouraging, and rewarding, positive farm management changes 4. To support independent farmers who are committed to sustainable livestock production.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Certified Animal Welfare Approved by AGW is an independent, nonprofit farm certification program and food label. Animal Welfare Approved is the only farm certification that guarantees all animals are raised outdoors on pasture or range, ensuring high-welfare management and truly sustainable agricultural practices. No other food label offers these distinctions. AGW is the only farm animal welfare certifier in the U.S. accredited to ISO/IEC Guide 17065, providing the highest level of oversight and scrutiny for the programs in its scope.
$1,284,750 spent68% of program spendingCertified Regenerative by AGW is the only ISO/IEC Guide 17065-accredited certification in North America that provides a holistic assurance of continual improvement, measuring real change in partnership to benefit soil, water, air, biodiversity, infrastructure, animal welfare and social responsibility. This innovative program functions as a management tool, verifying farms are meeting initial rigorous sustainability standards and making continual improvement through documented, audited regenerative planning.
$321,187 spent17% of program spendingCertified Grassfed by AGW is the only certification and logo in the U.S. and Canada that guarantees food products come from animals fed a 100 percent grass and forage diet and raised outdoors on pasture and range according to the highest welfare standards in the industry, Certified Animal Welfare Approved by AGW.
$170,040 spent9% of program spendingCertified Non-GMO by AGW is the only certification in North America that helps consumers avoid genetically modified food ingredients and support high-welfare, environmentally sustainable animal husbandry. Available to farmers, ranchers and food producers, the Certified Non-GMO by AGW label guarantees production without genetically engineered/modified feed, supplements or ingredients, and ensures animals are raised according to the highest welfare standards in the industry, Certified Animal Welfare Approved by AGW.
$113,360 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,889,337.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 22% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of A Greener World’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $2.7M → $865k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A Greener World’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A Greener World leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A Greener World.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 56% · 2019 63% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
23% of A Greener World's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of A Greener World's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.2M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A Greener World is better cushioned than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like A Greener World
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A Greener World: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A Greener World?
- A Greener World (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,917,125 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($5,812,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A Greener World have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $13,917,125 in grants to A Greener World, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Greener World?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,812,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Greener World find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing