Washington · Nonprofit
GROWING VETERANS
GROWING VETERANS (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $621,175 to it, the largest being BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($201,830). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $621k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Growing Veterans does
Mission
We empower veterans to cultivate purpose and belonging by growing food, community, and each other.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
To strengthen long-term sustainability, the organization made the strategic decision to close its greenbank farm location and consolidate operations at lynden, ensuring program stability and continued community impact
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Dirt therapy program: in 2025, Growing Veterans advanced its mission of improving veterans' mental health through sustainable agriculture and peer support programming. Through its dirt therapy program at the lynden farm, the organization combined hands-on farming with peer connection to foster belonging, purpose, and community reintegration. Community members contributed over 1,000 volunteer hours, and the organization hosted 2,603 hours of paid veteran internships. Approximately 6,200 pounds of organic produce were grown and donated, with roughly 95% distributed within whatcom and island counties to food banks and shelters.
$85,352 spent$1,341 earned by the program55% of program spendingPeer support program: in 2025, Growing Veterans also delivered three peer support training (pst) sessions (both in-person and virtual), graduating 33 participants, 75% of whom were veterans. The curriculum equips participants with tools to improve communication, mindfulness, and relational skills. In 2025, these skills were applied in real-world crisis situations, where staff intervened with three individuals expressing suicidal ideation, successfully connecting them to crisis resources and continued support.
$70,059 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,411.
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 2023 to 2024, from $219k to $118k (−46%).
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 22% · 2022 52% · 2023 52% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of GROWING VETERANS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Jessi Border
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $184k → $29k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GROWING VETERANS’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
GROWING VETERANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 GROWING VETERANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 53% · 2019 57% · 2020 45% · 2021 49% · 2022 30% · 2023 35% — 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
23% of GROWING VETERANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
GROWING VETERANS draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GROWING VETERANS is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GROWING VETERANS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GROWING VETERANS: 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 GROWING VETERANS?
- GROWING VETERANS (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $621,175 to it, the largest being BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($201,830). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING VETERANS have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $621,175 in grants to GROWING VETERANS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING VETERANS?
- BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $201,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING VETERANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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