Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets (Maine) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,788,947 to it, the largest being FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ($2,233,635). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $363k
What Maine Federation of Farmers Markets does
Mission
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to all residents, and to educate consumers about food resources and to support farm vitality.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Charitable - MFFM's charitable activities focus on reducing the barriers to local food for low-income Mainers, connecting communities with farmers' markets to promote healthy eating, and addressing food distribution problems by working to increase farmers' markets' produce capacity in rural areas.
$999,292 spentof which $507,381 as grants$1,007,834 earned by the program67% of program spendingMarket Support & Promotion - MFFM provides services to markets, and on behalf of markets, that help to boost the success and food access goals of farmers' markets in their communities. This includes the Bumper Crop program, a workplace wellness program that helps connect employers and their employees to farmers' markets. This led to over $110,000 in Bumper Crop voucher redemption at farmers' markets across the state. MFFM also provides fiscal agency support to markets, hosting their central payment terminals to accept SNAP and credit cards, and then reimbursing vendors directly. These services ease the burden on market organizers, who are often volunteers, and boost our mission.
$439,339 spent$50,274 earned by the program29% of program spendingEducational - MFFM educates the public regarding the benefits of eating nutritious food, where to find it, how to access it affordably, and how to prepare it, as well as the importance of local agriculture to Maine's food system and ecology. MFFM also provides education to Maine farmers and farmers' market organizers regarding making their products accessible to low-income residents, selecting and participating in farmers' markets, food safety, effective marketing and market research, conflict management, and how to build community partnerships.
$50,791 spent$1,681 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,489,422.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $188k to $391k (+108%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 55% · 2023 29% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of Maine Federation of Farmers Markets’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
James Debiasi
Executive Director
Board chair
Carolyn Snell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $519k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Maine Federation of Farmers Markets’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
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 Maine Federation of Farmers Markets.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 74% · 2023 70% — 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
50% of Maine Federation of Farmers Markets's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Maine Federation of Farmers Markets receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $102k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$102k
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 Maine Federation of Farmers 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maine Federation of Farmers 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 Maine Federation of Farmers Markets?
- Maine Federation of Farmers Markets (Maine) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,788,947 to it, the largest being FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ($2,233,635). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Federation of Farmers Markets have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,788,947 in grants to Maine Federation of Farmers Markets, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Federation of Farmers Markets?
- FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,233,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Federation of Farmers Markets find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 19 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