Oregon · Nonprofit
OUR VILLAGE GARDENS
OUR VILLAGE GARDENS (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,965 to it, the largest being THE COLLINS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $726k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $630k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Our Village Gardens does
Mission
Our Village Gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)Our Village Gardens leverages community organizing, skill building, andleadership development to address current and long term disparities tofood access.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Village market village market is a neighborhood grocery located in the heart of oregon's largest affordable housing neighborhood. In 2010, the village market project was designed to meet a basic community defined need: the lack of access to a local corner grocery store where fresh, healthy, culturally appropriate food can be purchased at a reasonable price. Today, village market welcomes 300 customers a day and promotes the good food program. Last year, village market provided 15,659 free apples, bananas, and oranges to neighborhood youth (through the free fruit for kids program).the market also promotes access to healthy food through a 20% produce discount (produce for the people) and a $1 for $1 match when people use snap benefits to purchase produce (double up food bucks). During the growing season, village market highlights produce grown two blocks away at our seeds of harmony community garden. The market is also a primary place of employment for the neighborhood.
$256,020 spent$31,111 earned by the program71% of program spendingGrowing projects - launched in spring of 2006 in the new columbia community, the seeds of harmony community garden provides access to land, seeds, plant starts, and compost to over 75 gardener households. Village gardens' staff support the leadership of the seeds of harmony garden committee as they oversee a 42,000-square-foot garden that serves as a community meeting place, a food source, and an educational tool for families in the community. The fruits of diversity community orchard a 10,000-square-foot orchard launched in 2013 in partnership with the portland fruit tree project is the first public community orchard planted in the city of portland. Fruit harvested from the orchard goes to community residents who volunteer at monthly work and harvest parties. We launched the neighbor-2-neighbor program in the early days of the pandemic. Through this program, we harvest and purchase seasonal produce directly from community gardeners to provide free weekly produce shares to seniors and other neighborhors who are unable to garden. 28 families receive free weekly deliveries of fresh produce and neighborhood growers are able to sell directly to feed their neighbors.
$103,466 spent29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $359,486.
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 2023 to 2024, from $382k to $162k (−58%).
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: 2022 38% · 2023 71% · 2024 54% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of OUR VILLAGE GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $172k → $191k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 OUR VILLAGE GARDENS’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
OUR VILLAGE GARDENS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 OUR VILLAGE GARDENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 23% · 2022 35% · 2023 26% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of OUR VILLAGE GARDENS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k 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.
Against its field
OUR VILLAGE GARDENS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OUR VILLAGE GARDENS
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR VILLAGE GARDENS: 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 OUR VILLAGE GARDENS?
- OUR VILLAGE GARDENS (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,965 to it, the largest being THE COLLINS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUR VILLAGE GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $629,965 in grants to OUR VILLAGE GARDENS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR VILLAGE GARDENS?
- THE COLLINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR VILLAGE GARDENS 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing