California · Nonprofit
DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE
DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,181 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE AND LENA VALENTE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $846k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $276k
What Davis Farmers Market Alliance does
Mission
To operate community supported certified farmers markets that sustain a diversity of california farmers and food producers, support local businesses, build community relationships and educate consumers about agriculture, food and nutrition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FARM AND GARDEN BASED EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS - The Alliance supports gardens throughout all schools in the Davis Joint Unified School District. The Alliance offers a competitive matching garden grant program to all interested school sites in Davis, CA.
$362,078 spent100% of program spendingFARM VISITS - The Alliance sponsors local farm visits for second graders. Students gain a deeper understanding of the connections among the environment, farming, and where their food comes from by meeting with farmers, participating in farm activities, and tasting a farm-fresh snack. The farm visits support grade level standards in history, language arts, and science.
Waste Reduction - The Alliance and the School District co-sponsor the district-wide reduction and recycling program called rise (Recycling Is Simply Elementary). At each school site a DavisRise leader works with students, custodians, administrators, and staff to implement a customized recycling and composting program. Custodians earn recognition and awards for their recycling work through a peer-nomination process.
To operate community certified farmers markets
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,078.
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 2020 to 2021, from $208k to $325k (+56%).
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 17% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE’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 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $15k.
1 of 5 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 DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE’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
DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- 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 DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE
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
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE: 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 DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE?
- DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,181 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE AND LENA VALENTE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $170,181 in grants to DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE?
- THE GEORGE AND LENA VALENTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE 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.
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 5 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