Georgia · Nonprofit
Forsyth Farmers Market Inc
Forsyth Farmers Market Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,749 to it, the largest being WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC ($175,116). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $672k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $510k
- Net assets
- $174k
What Forsyth Farmers Market Inc does
Mission
To increase understanding and participation in a local food system that supports sustainable production and increases access to local products. By pursuing this mission, the community of savannah will benefit from better diet and nutrition, lower healthcare costs,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Plan, organize, and execute weekly, producer-only markets with a focus on education and community development. Forsyth farmers market is open year-round. It offers participants a free nutrition class each month along with free produce vouchers that can be used at the forsyth farmers market or at our pop-up markets with local partners.
$300,756 spent84% of program spendingPlan, organize, and execute farm truck 912, a mobile farmers market, that brings fresh fruit and vegetables to neighborhoods with the least access to healthy food. Farm truck 912 accepts and matches purchasing dollars of shoppers using federal snap program and also has a focus on education and community development. Food pharmacy operates march through october.
$56,204 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $356,960.
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 $131k to $315k (+141%).
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 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 51% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of Forsyth Farmers Market 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. 4 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
Cherie Trice
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $75k.
10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Forsyth Farmers Market 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
Forsyth Farmers Market Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
89% 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 Forsyth Farmers Market Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 48% · 2021 73% · 2022 28% · 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of Forsyth Farmers Market Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
80% of Forsyth Farmers Market Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Forsyth Farmers Market Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Forsyth Farmers Market Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.4M
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 Forsyth Farmers Market 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% 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 Forsyth Farmers Market 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Forsyth Farmers Market Inc?
- Forsyth Farmers Market Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,749 to it, the largest being WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC ($175,116). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Forsyth Farmers Market Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $509,749 in grants to Forsyth Farmers Market Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Forsyth Farmers Market Inc?
- WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Forsyth Farmers Market Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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