Florida · Nonprofit
Forage Inc
Forage Inc (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,494,712 to it, the largest being LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION ($805,340). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $643k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $716k
What Forage Inc does
Mission
To cultivate and sustain a resilient local food community in North Central Florida through collaboration, economic opportunity, education, and seed stewardship. From seed to plate, we are growing a robust local food system!
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kitchen Services. Our commercial-grade community kitchen offers reasonably priced kitchen facility rental (by the hour), and commissary, refrigeration and freezer space to entrepreneurs who are starting value-added food businesses. We also host culinary education courses and food preparation classes. And we provide an affordable space for local food businesses to store dry and cold food.
$167,149 spent$73,073 earned by the program42% of program spendingYouth Programs.Gardens: Working with the Cultural Arts Coalition to provide hands-on learning in a weekly after-school science club, we use the garden as a living classroom. Exploring food, nature, biology, chemistry and ecology through a garden, we also weave in the arts and cooking for a full seed to plate experience. We currently work with partners at three sites in the Gainesville area.Culinary: Working with the Greater Duval Neighborhood Association and Chef Empowerment/Underground Kitchen, two local organizations, we continue our youth culinary program called Young Chefs. Together we worked with middle and high school aged students to offer them an afterschool enrichment program focused on learning culinary skills. Through a combination of virtual and in person classes, the students learned how to prepare and plate multi course meals using as much local food as possible.
$123,627 spent$11,495 earned by the program31% of program spendingSeed Collective. Weve created a regional seed hub because local food needs local seeds. We curate a collection of varieties that do well in our climate, provide seed education and collaborate regionally and nationally to preserve and protect crop varieties. Our small and intentional collection reflects an accumulation of years of shared experiences with other growers. We support the livelihoods of adults with disabilities. We also participate in numerous off-site events, providing talks, workshops, tours and more.
$109,276 spent$9,987 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $400,052.
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 2018 to 2019, from $172k to $424k (+146%).
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: 2018 27% · 2019 12% · 2020 8% · 2021 29% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 19% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of Forage Inc’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. 0 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.
Chief executive
Shelby Dixon
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $86k → $197k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Forage Inc’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
Forage Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 Forage Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 98% · 2019 91% · 2020 58% · 2021 84% · 2022 42% · 2023 39% — 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
57% of Forage Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Forage Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $570k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Forage Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like Forage Inc
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 Forage Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Forage Inc?
- Forage Inc (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,494,712 to it, the largest being LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION ($805,340). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Forage Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,494,712 in grants to Forage Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Forage Inc?
- LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $805,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Forage Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Forage →
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 10 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