Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FRESHFARM MARKETS
FRESHFARM MARKETS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,804,339 to it, the largest being CLARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC DBA A JAMES & ALICE B CLARK FOUNDATION ($1,043,500). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Freshfarm Markets does
Mission
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. We create food access, economic development, and thriving communities through hands-on education, farmers markets, and food distribution programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Farmers markets-this program promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the mid-atlantic region. Operating producer-only farmers markets and farm stands create economic opportunities for farmers and local businesses, fuel local economies, serve as place makers and community gathering spots, and provide vital food access points available to all. Freshfarm is the largest network of produceronlyfarmers markets and farm stands in the washington, d.c. Area. There were 26 and 27 markets and farm stands as at december 31, 2024 and 2023 respectively. The markets host a diverse range of food producers from four states (md, pa, va, and wv) and washington, d.c., including over 260 farmers, ranchers, and food entrepreneurswho either grow, raise, and/or produce every product that they sell. Freshfarm actively seeks producers using sustainable practices and visits each applicant's production site to verify production methods.
$2,616,865 spentof which $1,530,167 as grants25% of program spendingFoodprints - this signature food education program aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through engaging, academically aligned, handson culinary and garden education. The program currently leads programming in twenty-one (21) washington, d.c. Public schools and several early childcare centers, with the majority in underserved areas of the city - reaching over 8,000 elementary school students and over three hundred (300) childcare families. Through foodprints, students and their families learn to grow, cook, and enjoy fresh, local, whole foods.foodprints' teachers bring math, science, and social studies to life, aiming to improve the short and long-term health of our bodies and our environment.
$3,810,583 spent$3,515,096 earned by the program36% of program spendingFood access - our suite of nutrition incentive programs includes freshmatch and produce plus. Freshmatch provides a dollar-for-dollar match on federal benefits spent at the market, thereby helping shoppers take home more fresh and nutritious produce and local foods and creating new revenue streams for local farmers and foodproducers. Produce plus provides locally grown, fresh produce to washington, d.c. Residents with limited access to fresh, healthy food. Produce plus operates from june through november annually.
$2,228,072 spent21% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,984,110 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,639,630.
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 2019 to 2020, from $920k to $2.1M (+125%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 31% · 2019 30% · 2020 23% · 2021 45% · 2022 57% · 2023 55% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of FRESHFARM MARKETS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Hugo Mogollon
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica Zetzman June To Dec
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $140k → $900k.
13 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $146k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foodworks). These are real filings, and they are not money FRESHFARM MARKETS raised.
From the IRS filings of FRESHFARM MARKETS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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
FRESHFARM MARKETS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
28% 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 FRESHFARM MARKETS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 43% · 2019 43% · 2020 47% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of FRESHFARM MARKETS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
FRESHFARM MARKETS draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $798k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
FRESHFARM MARKETS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding FRESHFARM MARKETS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.3M
- Smithsonian Institution$50k
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 FRESHFARM MARKETS
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 FRESHFARM MARKETS: 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 FRESHFARM MARKETS?
- FRESHFARM MARKETS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,804,339 to it, the largest being CLARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC DBA A JAMES & ALICE B CLARK FOUNDATION ($1,043,500). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESHFARM MARKETS have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $4,804,339 in grants to FRESHFARM MARKETS, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESHFARM MARKETS?
- CLARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC DBA A JAMES & ALICE B CLARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,043,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESHFARM MARKETS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 57 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