Tennessee · Nonprofit
GROW OAK RIDGE
GROW OAK RIDGE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,625 to it, the largest being Y12 FCU GIVES FOUNDATION INC ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $174k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Grow Oak Ridge does
Mission
The mission of Grow Oak Ridge is to connect locally grown foods with the public through farmers markets community gardens and education. We produce two farmers markets a summer garden education program and numerous other educational sessions throughout the year on healthy cooking gardening and other health-related topics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our primary summer initiative is the Grow Your Own: Backyard & Community Gardening program. In 2025 it supported 43 families in cultivating vegetables at home and in community gardens. The program supplied free seeds seedlings hand tools organic fertilizers and educational sessions. Participants were tasked with weighing their harvest yielding approximately 5800 pounds of food. We provide a Garden Coach to visit their gardens and give in-person help and advice. Our participants say they have learned life-long gardening skills in our program. We also operate a community garden offering the public a chance to rent a summer garden plot.
$73,218 spent$2,880 earned by the program64% of program spendingGrow Oak Ridge produced two farmers markets in 2025: the Winter Farmers Market and Farmers Market To Go an online year-round farmers market. Both of these offer farmers a low-barrier venue in which to sell locally grown foods to the public. The Winter Farmers Market also features educational programming such as Nourish Kids Club for children and free educational classes for adults on topics such as growing your own food and on the preparation of healthy meals. The Winter Farmers Market had 10,000 visitors in 2025. It also accepts and doubles SNAP benefits for fresh produce up to $20 per day per eligible customer. Farmers Market To Go had about 500 customers and distributed double SNAP benefits of about $1,000 during the year.
$39,212 spentof which $5,445 as grants$8,072 earned by the program34% of program spendingGrow Oak Ridge provided food assistance to others in 2025 through its Nourish Kids Club and Double Up Food Bucks programs. The Nourish Kids Club offers children aged 2 to 12 a complimentary vegetable tasting and $5 in Produce Bucks to purchase fresh produce from local farmers at the Winter Farmers Market. The club also offers educational activities emphasizing the importance of consuming fresh fruits and vegetables for a healthy lifestyle. In 2025 the Nourish Kids Club benefitted approximately 800 children distributing nearly $4,000 worth of local produce fostering positive relationships between farmers and children. Additionally the Double Up Food Bucks initiative facilitated SNAP doubling at the Winter Farmers Market.
$2,402 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,832.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $70k to $95k (+36%).
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: 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of GROW OAK RIDGE’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 4 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.
Board chair
David Mowrer
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 GROW OAK RIDGE’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
GROW OAK RIDGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 GROW OAK RIDGE.
“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 GROW OAK RIDGE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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
GROW OAK RIDGE 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 GROW OAK RIDGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$16k
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 GROW OAK RIDGE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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 GROW OAK RIDGE: 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 GROW OAK RIDGE?
- GROW OAK RIDGE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,625 to it, the largest being Y12 FCU GIVES FOUNDATION INC ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROW OAK RIDGE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,625 in grants to GROW OAK RIDGE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW OAK RIDGE?
- Y12 FCU GIVES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW OAK RIDGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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