Virginia · Nonprofit
PROJECT GROWS INC
PROJECT GROWS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,294 to it, the largest being AUGUSTA HEALTH CARE INC ($118,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $418k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $472k
- Net assets
- $354k
What Project Grows Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to grow a healthy community by connecting all people to nutritious foods. We do this through various food education and food access programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Equitable access - project grows provides equitable access to affordable, nutritious food to support healthy choices for peopole of all ages in our community. Our programs include a mobile market that delivers over 13,000 pounds of fresh, affordable food annually to senior centers,public housing, and childcare centers; regular food donations to communities in need, grown on our farm with the help of more than 120 volunteers; and the management and promotion of nutrition incentive programs that help more than 2,800 people access healthier food each year. Additionally, project grows strengthens the regional food system through our mobile farmers market, which sources products from over 16 local producers; by managing the waynesboro farmers market, supporting more than 35 small farms and businesses; and by promoting the use of federal and state nutrition incentive programs throughout the region.
$306,153 spent$129,319 earned by the program70% of program spendingFood education - project grows provides food education both on our farm and throughout the community to build knowledge, skills, and confidence in growing, cooking, and eating healthy foods. Our programs include hands-on farm and garden experiences such as field trips, summer camps, and school garden lessons, as well as first-time job opportunities for high school students through our youth leaders in agriculture program. We also offer cooking classes, food tastings, and community outreach events. Each year, youth and adults receive more than 6,100 hours of educational programming across more than 300 educational events.
$128,777 spent$76,240 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $434,930.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $245k to $597k (+143%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 27% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 14% · 2022 23% · 2023 39% · 2024 25% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of PROJECT GROWS INC’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. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $22k → $18k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 PROJECT GROWS INC’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
PROJECT GROWS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 PROJECT GROWS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 37% · 2019 28% · 2020 28% · 2021 42% · 2022 38% · 2023 56% — 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 PROJECT GROWS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
70% of PROJECT GROWS INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k 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
PROJECT GROWS INC has grown faster than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT GROWS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $799k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$799k
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 PROJECT GROWS INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT GROWS INC?
- PROJECT GROWS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,294 to it, the largest being AUGUSTA HEALTH CARE INC ($118,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT GROWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $472,294 in grants to PROJECT GROWS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT GROWS INC?
- AUGUSTA HEALTH CARE INC is the largest funder on record, with $118,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT GROWS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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