North Carolina · Nonprofit
BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,948,436 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($565,942). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $562k
What Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture does
Mission
We are a women-led organization that builds an equitable, sustainable local food system by supporting 150+ producers and cultivating community connections that educate, inspire, and increase demand for local food. We operate a year-round food hub and two tailgate farmers markets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food hub & markets facilitate the operation of market channels that increase access to and availability of healthy and locally grown food for local residents through the high country food hub and tailgate farmers markets.
$983,671 spent$897,264 earned by the program83% of program spendingDouble bucks double snap/ebt funds, up to $75 per day, when customers make purchases of eligible items at the high country food hub and farmers markets in watauga county.
$53,806 spent5% of program spendingProducer support provide educational opportunities for local producers through on farm workshops and trainings.
$23,475 spent2% of program spendingPromotion and cultivation of food producers through local connections and education.
$129,585 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,190,537.
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 2023 to 2024, from $386k to $606k (+57%).
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 6% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Elizabeth Whiteman
Executive director
Board chair
Lanae Hood
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $99k → $246k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE’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
BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
81% 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 BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 70% · 2019 63% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 48% · 2023 37% — 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
64% of BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$22k
- Department of Agriculture$20k
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 BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE?
- BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,948,436 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($565,942). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,948,436 in grants to BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE?
- THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $565,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 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