Oregon · Nonprofit
SCHOOL OF RANCH
SCHOOL OF RANCH (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,706 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $13k
What School of Ranch does
Mission
School of Ranch organizes workshops that teach practical, homestead, ranch, and tradition living skills, from food preservation to pasture mangement, from horses to chickens, from welding to spoon carving. Over 1200 people attended programs thatemphasize experiential learning, collaboration among neighbors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
School of Ranch is nearly completely self funded through ticket sales to workshops. Our workshops teach heritage skills and build community by helping people discover common ground regardless of politics, age, background or beliefs.
$123,485 spentof which $15,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $123,485.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mark Gross
Board President, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SCHOOL OF RANCH’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
SCHOOL OF RANCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
95% of SCHOOL OF RANCH's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SCHOOL OF RANCH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SCHOOL OF RANCH
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOL OF RANCH: 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 SCHOOL OF RANCH?
- SCHOOL OF RANCH (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,706 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOL OF RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $8,706 in grants to SCHOOL OF RANCH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL OF RANCH?
- The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL OF RANCH 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 4 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