Arizona · Nonprofit
ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE
ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,293 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $414k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Orchard Community Learning Service does
Mission
To facilitate access to physically and emotionally welcoming places where organizations, students, and families gather to learn, garden, develop relationships, and advocate and facilitate food access for positive change in food, personal and planetary wellness, and educational opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The planning and infrastructure for the opening of a corner store in 2026 is essentially an evolution in the profile of our previous food relief programs. The effort is to build a full circle system from farm to corner store to home table that incorporates (a) increased access to healthy food in an historically oppressed neighborhood, (b) interface the availability of healthy choices with education and dialog regarding the ancestral roots and knowledge of plants in general, and food plants of. the desert and, (c) the impact and politics of industrialized food systems on human and planetary health.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The Educational Programs of the Orchard's work consisted largely of an agroforestry workforce development program serving individuals in federally designated opportunity zones. During the 2025 fiscal year, two cohorts of 10 participants each were provided 60 hours of classroom and hands-on training. Full-time 2 month internship placements with the OCLC and within the urban forestry industry were offered following each cohort's training. Planning for wellness education our new location was initiated, drawing on the plant-based "healthy roots" of our community's ancestors.Bi-monthly restorative agriculture sessions were also held in our 2-acre Healthy Root Garden.
$172,667 spentof which $27,270 as grants$207,156 earned by the program48% of program spendingWith the move to our new 2-acre site and its permaculture design, the OCLC's urban farming began an evolution toward a full circle model of locally grown food to partner with our educational programs for local residents and service providers. This is a move away from an emphasis on a more narrow food relief program. This program will gain a strong interface toward healthy lifestyles vis-a-vis locally grown food with the opening of an onsite corner store in 2026.
$118,144 spent$36,222 earned by the program33% of program spendingLas Tres Hermanas Ecotienda is a new initiative of the OCLC's work in the community. 2025 was a planning and infrastructure development year for the Ecotienda/corner store which is located onsite in a 900 square foot former classroom at the Brooks Community Center. Program and infrastructure development in the 2025 fiscal year included (1) the installation of two 10'x20' walk-in coolers, (2) design of the interior layout of the store and, (3) outreach to the community in focus groups and community gatherings. March 28th, 2026 was selected as the date for the soft opening of Las Tres Hermanas.
$68,372 spent$117,938 earned by the program19% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $359,183.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $60k to $197k (+227%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE’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. 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
John Wann Angeles
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $24k → $73k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2020 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 90% — 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
29% of ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% 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
ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Arizona
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE: 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 ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE?
- ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,293 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $252,293 in grants to ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCHARD COMMUNITY LEARNING SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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