Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE GOOD ACRE
THE GOOD ACRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,918,895 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($3,832,350). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What The Good Acre does
Mission
We connect and strengthen farmers, food makers, and communities through good food. The Good Acre is the largest nonprofit food hub in minnesota. We play a critical role in creating market access for farmers in our region. For 2023, with 1.9 million of local food purchased from over 190 local farmers and makers in our food hub.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our grower support program offers a wide range of services for farmers, including farm production, business management, insect and disease management, soil fertility, post-harvest handling, on- farm food safety, and navigating contracts and pre-season planning. It connected with over 125 farmers. The wholesale readiness program leaff benefitted over 98% of farmers and led to over 270,000 pounds of locally grown produce donated to hunger relief organizations.
$662,278 spentof which $490,713 as grants$490,898 earned by the program38% of program spendingMarket access serves as the "to" in farm-to-school, farm-to-institution, and farm-to-table. We 1) deliver fresh local produce to food access organizations, retailers, and other wholesale customers and 2) expand markets for farm partners through wholesale opportunities and grower support. Tga views the expansion of food access for twin cities households and economic opportunity for farmers as completely entwined.
$858,810 spent49% of program spendingDuring 2024 tga made the decision to sunset its commercial shared used kitchen.
$217,316 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,738,404.
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 2018 to 2019, from $190k to $2.0M (+957%).
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: 2018 18% · 2019 5% · 2020 31% · 2021 25% · 2022 44% · 2023 27% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of THE GOOD ACRE’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $506k → $649k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 THE GOOD ACRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
THE GOOD ACRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 THE GOOD ACRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 34% · 2021 41% · 2022 44% · 2023 62% — 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
42% of THE GOOD ACRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
66% of THE GOOD ACRE'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE GOOD ACRE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE GOOD ACRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.7M
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 THE GOOD ACRE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 THE GOOD ACRE: 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 THE GOOD ACRE?
- THE GOOD ACRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,918,895 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($3,832,350). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GOOD ACRE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $6,918,895 in grants to THE GOOD ACRE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GOOD ACRE?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,832,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GOOD ACRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 34 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