Oregon · Nonprofit
BLACK FARM BUREAU
BLACK FARM BUREAU (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,615,205 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($420,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $825k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $364k
What Black Farm Bureau does
Mission
The mission of black food sovereignty coalition (bfsc) is to ignite black and brown communities to participate as owners & movement leaders with food systems, placemaking, and economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General programs: bin 2025, bfsc's general programs served over 4,200 individuals through come thru market, fiscal sponsorship, and community food access initiatives. Come thru market operated bi-weekly throughout the summer, generating approximately $45,000 in direct payments to 25 black and brown farmers and food vendors. Bfsc provided fiscal sponsorship infrastructure to afrovillage pdx, including financial management, legal compliance, and grant administration, while providing operational and financial support to additional farms and community organizations across the region. The organization co-hosted 11 community events reaching 1,235+ participants, including juneteenth, black men's health programming, and nutrition workshops. These programs collectively advance bfsc's mission to support black and brown communities as owners and leaders within food systems, placemaking, and economic development.
$221,670 spentof which $212,088 as grants18% of program spendingBlack futures farm (bff) - black futures farm is both a community-building and production farm where we grow meaningful relationships alongside vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Bff is on 1.15 acres with 17 different fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, medicinal and cooking herbs in the brentwood-darlington neighborhood, which is located on unceded clackamas and multnomah first nations territory. The mission is to heal the connection between black people and the land, and we achieve this by cultivating a healthy place for the black community to gather in joy. Starting in may and ending in october, every sunday is black sunday, a day for black-identified folks to gather, celebrate, learn, and grow together.
$844,033 spentof which $18 as grants70% of program spendingBbhx - black and brown herb exchange (bbhx) is a collective connecting bipoc communities with herbalism, traditional plant medicine, and sustainable farming practices. Bbhx provides education, resources, and community support to reclaim ancestral healing knowledge and build food and medicine sovereignty. Bbhx provided 182 people and families with 964 plants; provided high touch one-on-one support to 6 new and emerging herbalists and herb growers; and provided additional wrap-around support for community members looking to expand their herbal knowledge base.
$136,027 spent11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,201,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $296k to $1.3M (+330%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 44% · 2023 33% · 2024 43% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BLACK FARM BUREAU’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Malcolm Hoover
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $147k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Black Farm Bureau). These are real filings, and they are not money BLACK FARM BUREAU raised.
From the IRS filings of BLACK FARM BUREAU’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
BLACK FARM BUREAU has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 BLACK FARM BUREAU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 54% · 2023 27% — 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
20% of BLACK FARM BUREAU's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% 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 BLACK FARM BUREAU's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $635k 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
BLACK FARM BUREAU's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLACK FARM BUREAU
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK FARM BUREAU: 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 BLACK FARM BUREAU?
- BLACK FARM BUREAU (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,615,205 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($420,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK FARM BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,615,205 in grants to BLACK FARM BUREAU, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK FARM BUREAU?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $420,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK FARM BUREAU 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 23 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