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WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC

WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,431 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($79,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$269k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$214k
Net assets
$286k
8/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Westport Farmers Market Inc does

Mission

To create and maintain a year round regional hub where local farmers connect with real people over real food. In facilitating this "conversation" the westport farmers market hopes to help producers and consumers forge lasting relationships that celebrate local delicious sustainable food. To encourage local farm production and make a market for their farm products.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Facilitating connections between farmers and consumers by establishing and running a marketplace for local farmers to market their produce.

    $215,789 spent$107,732 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Facilitating connections between farmers and consumers

    $978 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $216,767.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2018 Revenue 102 ($121k) Expenses 97 ($134k) Net assets 84 ($63k)2019 Revenue 144 ($170k) Expenses 102 ($141k) Net assets 124 ($92k)2020 Revenue 95 ($112k) Expenses 94 ($130k) Net assets 101 ($75k)2021 Revenue 203 ($239k) Expenses 133 ($184k) Net assets 195 ($145k)2022 Revenue 178 ($210k) Expenses 106 ($147k) Net assets 280 ($208k)2023 Revenue 168 ($198k) Expenses 129 ($178k) Net assets 306 ($228k)2024 Revenue 187 ($221k) Expenses 138 ($191k) Net assets 346 ($257k)2025 Revenue 228 ($269k) Expenses 174 ($240k) Net assets 385 ($286k)
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Revenue (228)Expenses (174)Net assets (385)Peer revenue range

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 $77k to $147k (+92%).

$76k
$64k
$94k
$77k
$147k
$210k
$230k
$258k
$291k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

59% of WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
−$13k
’18
$29k
’19
−$17k
’20
$55k
’21
$63k
’22
$20k
’23
$30k
’24
$29k
’25
15
months of
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.

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Listed888869999
Joined·+0+0+0+0+4+0+0+2
No longer listed·00021002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $20k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET 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

WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% 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 WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC.

37%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 72% · 2019 71% · 2020 41% · 2021 88% · 2022 49% · 2023 60% — 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

80% of WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 100% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC'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 $65k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Connecticut funders.

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NY
NJ
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · below the median
Months of reserve14.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET 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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC?
WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,431 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($79,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $214,431 in grants to WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $79,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 8 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