Oregon · Nonprofit
TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM
TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,511 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($53,554). 4 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
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $976k
What Tryon Life Community Farm does
Mission
TLC Farm brings people together to root into relationships with each other and the land, by sharing tools for community-based sustainability and social change, and tending resilient ecosystems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATION PROGRAM: *Willow Creek Forest School* Our nature immersion pre-school program served 10 children & their families during the school year and ran four weeks of summer camp serving over 60 children. *Field Trips* Our volunteer education team grew and hosted field trips for a wide variety of groups, from kindergarteners, high school students, summer camps and family tours - approximately 200 students learned about sustainable land management and hands-on service. *Herb School* TLC Farm is in its second year as the classroom for the Elderberry School of Herbal Medicine which runs a monthly herbal education program on the land and tends a garden of medicinal herbs. This year Elderberry School added a second program focused on Clinical Herbalism which also meets once a month at TLC Farm. *Book Club* Our education team launched the "Becoming People of Place" Book Club, which meets once a month. *Workshops* Hosted several educational workshops, including Mason Bee tending, Conflict Resolution and a Spring Skills Share.
$76,047 spent$61,482 earned by the program78% of program spendingCOMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM. *Event Hosting* We hosted several organizational retreats and meetings for groups like the Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance, Havurah Shalom, and a community Grief Ritual. We also hosted birthday parties for folk of all ages. *Land events* We had a great annual Apple Fest, which included tasting several varieties of apples, making and tasting cider and learning about perennial fruit production. We also hosted monthly community potlucks, movie nights and old time jams. *Indigenous Solidarity* TLC Farm continued to support Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA, providing organizational and bookkeeping support as it successfully applied for its own 501c3 recognition. We also created a fund to support an Indigenous elder who leads ceremonies on this land, and supported a solar panel installation for a ceremony and music venue run by an Indigenous elder on the Warm Springs reservation.
$16,454 spentof which $4,266 as grants$27,484 earned by the program17% of program spendingDEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. *Increased Land Access* New volunteers have committed to tending the paths and outbuildings on the land, ensuring better access for all visitors. *Land Maintenance* Our volunteer Land Tending Team tended our existing structures, including putting new roofs and footings on our education kiosks that provide visitors with information about the land and organization. We also started construction of a new structure that will be used as a workshop and classroom space. *Invasive plant removal* Monthly work parties focused on removing invasive species like Himalayan blackberries, English Ivy and Lesser Celandine from most of the land and replanting with native plants. We had a large work day in the headwaters of the seasonal creek, sponsored by the Tryon Creek watershed council. *Animal Husbandry* TLC Farm is one the only educational urban farms in the Portland area to provide access to a dairy goat herd (managed by a land partner), which is very popular with all visitors, as well as an important opportunity to visit with and learn about traditional farm animals. The goats had babies in the spring - which always delights visitors. The roving chicken flock also…
$5,094 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $97,595.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $644k to $1.2M (+91%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 16% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $33k.
3 of 11 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 TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM’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
TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 83% · 2022 52% · 2023 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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 TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM?
- TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,511 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($53,554). 4 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 TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $161,511 in grants to TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $53,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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