California · Nonprofit
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,733,674 to it, the largest being ECOLOGY CENTER ($3,059,950). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Agricultural Institute of Marin does
Mission
The mission of the Agricultural Institute of Marin is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers in order to create a healthy, earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food and agricultural system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Farmers Markets Educational Venues AIMs certified farmers markets (CFMs) provide critical learning environments where AIM, farmers, and food makers engage the community and educate about the health, social, environmental, and economic benefits of eating locally and sustainably produced food. In 2023, AIM managed 392 farmers market events to offer local foods and community building across three Bay Area Counties. We maintain integrity by verifying that all farmers are selling only products that they grow. We also implemented a Livestock Marketing Integrity Program for ranchers selling meat products in our farmers markets. AIMs internal research indicates that over 40K shoppers and eaters a week depend on AIM markets, or an estimated 2 million annual visitors
$1,640,480 spent52% of program spendingRollin Root Mobile Market In 2023, AIM strengthened its star food access program, The Rollin Root, a mobile market that increases access to farm-fresh food and nutrition education for older adults and other underserved groups regardless of transportation or economic barriers in Marin and San Francisco counties. In total, we served approximately 7,359 participants, and an average of 150 people per week. Additionally, we recruited and trained 15 community ambassadors to join each Rollin Root stop to answer questions, share recipes and provide cooking tips to shoppers. Our nutrition educators led 52 nutrition education lessons and recipes to teach over 2,400 participants about seasonality and eating healthy on a budget.
$654,715 spent21% of program spendingCommunity Food Access At AIMs farmers markets, we accept EBT/Food stamps, and offer a Market Match, an incentive program which offers shoppers double value when they use EBT/Food Stamps for fruits and vegetables up to $15 per day. In 2023, we processed 44K EBT transactions among shoppers of low-income at our farmers markets for the purchase of free local fruits and vegetables. 89% of our participants attend the market on a weekly basis.We operated the Bounty Box, a multi-farm produce program started during the COVID-19 pandemic supporting nutrition access for communities across Marin and San Francisco. In 2023, we curated, packed, and donated 4,029 free Bounty Boxes to San Francisco and San Rafael communities experiencing food and nutrition insecurity
$279,610 spent9% of program spendingCreating the Center for Food & Agriculture In 2023, AIM continued to make progress in the development of the Center for Food and Agriculture to make healthy, locally and regionally grown food more accessible to people of all ages, abilities and economic capacities and educate eaters and farmers about sustainable practices in farming and food production. AIM has launched a campaign to build The Center for Food and Agriculture a place for the Marin Farmers Market to become a zero-waste farmers market and educational space dedicated to healthier food culture. In 2014, 84% of Marins voters endorsed the development of the CFA. An initial fundraising campaign, conducted between 2019 and 2023, generated over $7 million in commitments.
$205,616 spent7% of program spendingZero Waste and Climate Action With funding from Marin Community Foundation, we hired two Zero Waste Fellows to develop a Zero Waste Policy; focusing on reusable food ware, composting, and phasing out single use plastics. We also received funding from StopWaste who provided 10 farmers with 540 reusable containers to replace wax coated cardboard, helping to divert 24,624 lbs annually from being sent to a landfill and help our farmers save $51,192 annually not including disposal fees.
$113,825 spent4% of program spendingDiggin Education Programs AIM offers three farm-based education programs: Diggin in the Classroom, Diggin at the Market, and Diggin on the Farm. Our goal is to empower youth to make healthy food choices that will positively impact their long-term health. Knowledge of where food and fiber come from, how crops are grown, why farmers choose to farm and what is in season, is a powerful tool for teaching good nutrition. In 2023, we served 4,451 students, parents, and teachers served through our Diggin Education programs: at the market, in the classroom, on the farm, and at community events across Alameda, Marin, and San Francisco counties.
$106,329 spent3% of program spendingGrowing Success & Incubator Booth With Growing Success, we provide training, one-on-one mentoring, and technical assistance through a network for technical assistance providers to AIMs market participants. AIM is partnering with several other organizations to provide training opportunities and assistance free of cost to AIM farmers market participants. In collaboration with the Agricultural and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) and Kitchen Table Advisors (KTA) we promoted economic security among 8 beginning certified organic farmers of color by offering financial support, market spaces, and training. We implemented the second year of our Farmers Market Incubator Booth in 2023, a strategy to increase economic security among beginning BIPOC farmers at the Hayward, Grand Lake-Oakland, and Clement St., SF certified farmers markets.
$88,476 spent3% of program spendingRacial Equity and Food Justice In 2023, as part of our Path to Racial Equity, we worked to make markets more inclusive and accessible through our Racial Equity Fund that supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Farmers, Food Producers, and Artisans getting their start at the farmers market. We awarded 9 Racial Equity Fund startup grants to beginning Black and Brown farmers and food makers to get their start at the farmers market.
$26,730 spent1% of program spendingFood Policy AIM plays an active role in the Marin Food Policy Council, Marin Healthy Eating and Active Living Collaborative, California Alliance of Farmers Markets, California Food & Farm Resilience Coalition, and California Food and Farming Network to support initiatives that promote food access programming, solutions to climate change, and programs that offer financial resources for small to midsize farmers.
$10,262 spent0% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,126,043.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $6.3M (+55%).
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: 2019 45% · 2020 18% · 2021 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Andy Naja-Riese
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $172k → $1.5M.
11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 90% · 2019 55% · 2020 54% · 2021 63% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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
63% of AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
87% of AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN is better cushioned than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN: 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 AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN?
- AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,733,674 to it, the largest being ECOLOGY CENTER ($3,059,950). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $8,733,674 in grants to AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN?
- ECOLOGY CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $3,059,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing