Rocky Butte Farmers Market
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841953534
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9712700201
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,179
- Expenses
- $69,438
- Assets
- $19,368
- Liabilities
- $12,576
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarah Mooney (President)
People named in this filing
- Sarah Mooney (President)
- Keri Friedman (Secretary)
- Gillian David (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to increase access to affordable, locally grown food for low-income individuals and underserved communities in Northeast Portland. It operates a weekly farmers market that supports small and beginning farmers by reducing barriers to participation, and provides nutrition education, SNAP matching incentives, and community-based programming to promote food security, public health, and community well-being.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization increases access to fresh, healthy food for low-income individuals and families by offering SNAP/EBT access and matching benefits through programs such as Double Up Food Bucks and our internal Full Basket program. Customers using SNAP receive matching funds to purchase fruits and vegetables, effectively doubling their purchasing power. In 2025, the organization processed approximately $7,109 in SNAP benefits and distributed $5,946, in matching incentives, and $37,500 in fresh food and protein incentives (through NAYA 501c3), directly benefiting 1,000+ households. These efforts improve food security, support local farmers, and promote healthier dietary outcomes in underserved communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.6%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 56.9%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.7%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.6% of revenue deployed · 56.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.