Oregon Farmers Markets Association
Portland, OR · EIN 20-5794189. Reported 67 grants totalling $1,788,088 to 63 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Oregon Farmers Markets Association, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K93) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 28% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 10% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,583; the smallest was $5,020 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers Market Fund | Portland, OR | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Adelante Mujeres | Forest Grove, OR | $81,120 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gorge Grown Food Network | Hood River, OR | $57,524 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rohingya Community Gardens | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rogue Valley Growers & Craft | Medford, OR | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Portland Farmers Market Inc | Portland, OR | $44,066 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Festivals Association Inc | Oakridge, OR | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Johns Center for Opportunity | Portland, OR | $40,583 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Farm Bureau | Portland, OR | $38,554 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lane County Farmers Market | Eugene, OR | $37,095 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Coos Bay Downtown Foundation | Coos Bay, OR | $35,583 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillsboro Tuesday Market Place Inc | Hillsboro, OR | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodlawn Neighborhood Association | Portland, OR | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Lake Oswego | Lake Oswego, OR | $31,895 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Klamath Falls Farmers Market Association Inc | Klamath Falls, OR | $26,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florence Farmers Market | Florence, OR | $25,583 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crop Farmers Markets | Prineville, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lloyd Ecodistrict | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montavilla Farmers Market | Portland, OR | $24,890 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sweet Home & Lebanon Farmers | Sweet Home, OR | $23,023 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Astoria Downtown Development Association | Astoria, OR | $22,724 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bountiful Backyard | Philomath, OR | $22,105 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whiteaker Farmers Market | Eugene, OR | $21,381 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Classic Roseburg Saturday Mkt | Roseburg, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Coast Food Web | Astoria, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Oregon Growers Association | Grants Pass, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tigard Area Chamber of Commerce | Tigard, OR | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Play Grow Learn LLC | Portland, OR | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hillsboro Farmers Markets Inc | Hillsboro, OR | $18,275 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dallas Downtown Association | Dallas, OR | $15,575 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvest House Events LLC | Bend, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillsdale Farmers Market | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seed to Table Oregon | Sisters, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tygh School Community Center Inc | Tygh Valley, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rogue River Growers Market | Rogue River, OR | $14,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dalles Farmers Market Inc | The Dalles, OR | $14,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Umpqua Valley Farmers Market | Roseburg, OR | $13,520 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Canyonville Farmers Market | Canyonville, OR | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hoodland Farmers Market | Welches, OR | $12,802 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Silverton Farmers Market | Silverton, OR | $12,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tigard Community Local Outreach | Portland, OR | $12,333 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodstock Farmers Market | Portland, OR | $11,609 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Natl Org Non Invasive Pract | Bonanza, OR | $11,210 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peoples Food Cooperative | Portland, OR | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bend Farmers Market | Bend, OR | $10,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clatskanie Farmer Collective Inc | Clatskanie, OR | $10,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Burns Farmers Market | Burns, OR | $10,035 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rocky Butte Farmers Market | Portland, OR | $10,023 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calapooia Food Alliance | Brownsville, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cave Junction Farmers Market | Cave Junction, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Applegate Community Development Corporation | Jacksonville, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Native American Youth and Family Center | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ontario Saturday Market | Ontario, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Valley Farmers Market Association | Cottage Grove, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sugarloaf Community Association | Williams, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sunset Empire Park and Rec | Seaside, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hollywood Farmers Market Inc | Portland, OR | $9,689 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon City Farmers Market Inc | Oregon City, OR | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salem Saturday Market | Salem, OR | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Moreland Farmers Market | Portland, OR | $8,121 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Baker City Farmers Market | Baker City, OR | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aloha Community Farmers Market | Beaverton, OR | $7,720 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Waterfront Community Relations | Portland, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
4 of 63 (6%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 38 of 63 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 40 | $971,550 | $12,205 |
| 2024 | 27 | $816,538 | $22,105 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oregon.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Oregon Farmers Markets Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 10621, Portland, OR, 97296.
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