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GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK

GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,731,627 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($568,784). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$519k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$115k
14/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Gorge Grown Food Network does

Mission

To build access to locally grown food and support local farmers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided education and training to beginning and small farmers and coummunity food leaders.

    $316,065 spent$406,161 earned by the program
    79% of program spending
  2. Provided rural communities access to fresh, local food through markets.

    $84,017 spent$107,967 earned by the program
    21% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $400,082.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($299k) Expenses 100 ($298k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2018 Revenue 116 ($348k) Expenses 110 ($328k) Net assets 211 ($38k)2019 Revenue 139 ($417k) Expenses 137 ($408k) Net assets 258 ($47k)2020 Revenue 150 ($448k) Expenses 140 ($416k) Net assets 434 ($79k)2021 Revenue 153 ($459k) Expenses 148 ($439k) Net assets 542 ($98k)2022 Revenue 166 ($498k) Expenses 166 ($495k) Net assets 554 ($100k)2023 Revenue 241 ($721k) Expenses 242 ($720k) Net assets 560 ($101k)2024 Revenue 166 ($497k) Expenses 163 ($484k) Net assets 630 ($114k)2025 Revenue 173 ($519k) Expenses 174 ($518k) Net assets 635 ($115k)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (174)Net assets (635)Peer revenue range

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 $194k to $304k (+56%).

$134k
$238k
$284k
$304k
$309k
$292k
$194k
$304k
$276k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
$20k
’18
$9k
’19
$32k
’20
$20k
’21
$2k
’22
$1k
’23
$13k
’24
$1k
’25
6.3
months of
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.

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Listed898867667
Joined·+3+2+0+0+2+0+1+1
No longer listed·23021110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $62k → $326k.

3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK’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

GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

39% 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 GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK.

33%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 64% · 2019 41% · 2020 55% · 2021 33% · 2022 43% · 2023 36% — 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 GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

87% of GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve6.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $196k on record — $129k federal, $66k state.

Federal$129k
grants $129kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$129k
State$66k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$66k
  • ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$500

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 13%Fundraising 10%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK?
GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,731,627 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($568,784). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,731,627 in grants to GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK?
MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $568,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 20 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