Oregon · Nonprofit
Parker Learning Gardens
Parker Learning Gardens (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,000 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Parker Learning Gardens does
Mission
Parker Learning Gardens was formed to provide inclusive hands-on educational experiences that reconnect people with land food systems ecology and community through regenerative agriculture and environmental stewardship. The organization exists to create accessible opportunities for youth families and community members to learn practical life skills related to gardening food production sustainability habitat restoration animal care and natural resource conservation. Through educational farm programs workshops seasonal classes camps volunteer opportunities and community food access initiatives Parker Learning Gardens promotes environmental responsibility healthy food systems outdoor learning and community resilience. The organization also works to preserve and steward agricultural land and biodiverse habitat while making educational and nature-based experiences accessible to families of varying income levels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Parker Learning Gardens operates an educational farm and community learning space dedicated to providing inclusive hands-on environmental and agricultural education for youth families volunteers and community members in Lane County Oregon. The organization combines regenerative agriculture ecological stewardship outdoor education and practical life skills training to help participants build meaningful connections with food systems land stewardship biodiversity and community resilience. Programs primarily serve children teens families homeschool groups volunteers and low-income community members with a strong emphasis on accessibility through sliding-scale participation and reduced-cost educational opportunities. Activities are designed to support participants of varying backgrounds learning styles and experience levels through experiential outdoor-based learning. Core programming includes weekly seasonal educational classes summer camps workshops volunteer learning opportunities farm-based enrichment activities and community food access initiatives. Educational topics include gardening soil health regenerative agriculture composting habitat restoration orchard care animal…
$89,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $10k to $86k (+801%).
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.
61% of Parker Learning Gardens’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jenna Tilley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $23k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Parker Learning 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
Parker Learning Gardens leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 Parker Learning Gardens.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 43% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of Parker Learning 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. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Parker Learning Gardens's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Parker Learning 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.
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 Parker Learning 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 Parker Learning Gardens?
- Parker Learning Gardens (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,000 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Parker Learning Gardens have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $68,000 in grants to Parker Learning Gardens, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Parker Learning Gardens?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Parker Learning 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 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