Washington · Nonprofit
TACOMA FARMERS MARKET
TACOMA FARMERS MARKET (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,788 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $198k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Tacoma Farmers Market does
Mission
The mission of the Tacoma Farmers Market is to provide a sustainable market venue where local farms and small businesses can connect directly with consumers and the community. In doing so, our three markets support our vision of: preserving local farms and farmland, strengthening our local economy, building small businesses, providing access to healthy food for all residents, and creating vibrant spaces for community engagement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
TFM Traditional Markets run 4 days a week from May-September and include 4 Tacoma locations: Downtown Broadway, Eastside, Point Ruston and Multicare in Hilltop. These markets support WIC, EBT, PEBT, and SNAP programs for families and individuals qualifying for assistance. To qualify as a Farmers Market through the WFMA, as well as accept WIC, we must commit to hosting 5 farmers per market with a certain percentage of revenue going to our farm vendors. Our commitment to qualifying as a farmers market solidifies our goals to increase access to fresh and local produce. These markets also provide a space for local farmers and businesses to direct sell to customers and to build a customer base.
$151,557 spent$117,246 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe Fresh Express Mobile Market is a year round mobile market that travels to 8 different locations throughout Pierce County. This market brings fresh and local produce, bread, eggs, and other items to customers who may have transportation or other mobility restrictions. This programs partners with community organizations to pin point locations with limited food access as well as with local farmers to purchase directly and sell to consumers. FEM accepts EBT, SNAP and PEBT as well as other forms of payment assistance.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $151,557.
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 $168k to $338k (+101%).
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 13% · 2018 9% · 2019 29% · 2020 7% · 2021 3% · 2023 22% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of TACOMA FARMERS MARKET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $36.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 TACOMA FARMERS MARKET’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
TACOMA FARMERS MARKET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 TACOMA FARMERS MARKET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 39% · 2022 81% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
TACOMA FARMERS MARKET draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
TACOMA FARMERS MARKET's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TACOMA FARMERS MARKET receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
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 TACOMA FARMERS MARKET
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TACOMA FARMERS MARKET: 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 TACOMA FARMERS MARKET?
- TACOMA FARMERS MARKET (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,788 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TACOMA FARMERS MARKET have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $197,788 in grants to TACOMA FARMERS MARKET, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TACOMA FARMERS MARKET?
- American Heart Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TACOMA FARMERS MARKET find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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