Oregon · Nonprofit
Outgrowing Hunger
Outgrowing Hunger (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,017,693 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($490,036). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $905k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $182k
What Outgrowing Hunger does
Mission
We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Services provides underprivileged youth with paid internships and educational experiences in agriculture and nature stewardship. Approximately 30 youth completed summer internships with the Nadaka nature camp. Youth Services also provide wrap-around supportive services to 200 families with food boxes, household goods, and resource navigation. Outgrowing Hunger contracts exclusively with Play Grow Learn LLC to manage and operate this program.
$239,562 spent$283,937 earned by the program28% of program spendingFarm Accelerator provides venue, training, logistical support, and market access to 40 immigrant and refugee entrepreneurs. Farmers in this program provided 100% of the vegetables for a season long CSA serving 50 families and 100% of the produce sold at the Rockwoods People's Market (Farmers Market).
$193,646 spentof which $800 as grants$178,098 earned by the program23% of program spendingDirect Support provides emergency and supplemental food resouces including locally sourced fresh produce, eggs, and fish to food-insecured household in the Portland metro area.
$181,409 spentof which $88,861 as grants$189,144 earned by the program21% of program spendingCommunity Garden Operations provides the organization and management of 7 acres of food-producing garden plots at 12 sites, located in low-income neighborhoods of the Portland (OR) Metro Area. Approximately 450 unique households particapted in 2024, of which aprox. 400 are refuge status. We provide supports such as access to land, water, tools, seeds, fertilizer, and classes.
$157,379 spentof which $10,350 as grants$147,500 earned by the program18% of program spendingSponsored Projects provides nonprofit fiscal sponsorship and financial management to independently governed organizations which do not have nonprofit status.
$82,597 spentof which $1,200 as grants$89,606 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $854,593.
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 2023 to 2024, from $138k to $281k (+104%).
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 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 66% · 2023 65% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Outgrowing Hunger’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 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
Adam Kohl
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $11k → $154k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Outgrowing Hunger’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
Outgrowing Hunger leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 Outgrowing Hunger.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 50% · 2020 82% · 2021 65% · 2022 38% · 2023 26% — 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
57% of Outgrowing Hunger'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
51% of Outgrowing Hunger's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $495k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523k 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
Outgrowing Hunger has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Outgrowing Hunger receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $239k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$169k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$70k
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 Outgrowing Hunger
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
98% 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 Outgrowing Hunger: 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 Outgrowing Hunger?
- Outgrowing Hunger (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,017,693 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($490,036). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Outgrowing Hunger have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,017,693 in grants to Outgrowing Hunger, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Outgrowing Hunger?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $490,036 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Outgrowing Hunger 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 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