Oregon Community Food System Network
ActivePublic CharityFood, Agriculture & Nutrition
Portland, ORWebsite
About Oregon Community Food System Network
The Oregon Community Food System Network brings people and organizations together to broaden understanding of issues, build relationships and trust, develop common purpose, and create collective capacity to realize our shared vision of all Oregonians thriving with healthy, affordable foods from an environmentally and economically resilient regional food system.
Focus Areas
community food systemsfarm and ranch disaster resiliencefood hub developmentbeginning farmer & rancher supportfood access and nutrition (Veggie Rx)policy and advocacyworker safetySNAP/Hunger interventions
Who They Fund
food system workers / food service employeescommunities impacted by disastersfood producers and distributors
About Oregon Community Food System Network
Oregon Community Food System Network’s recent grantmaking shows a clear emphasis on keeping Oregon’s food system functioning under stress: one stream supports worker safety and infrastructure for food hubs and local distributors, while another backs farms and ranches preparing for climate-related disasters. The largest recent awards reach $75,000, and the portfolio includes both facility-oriented projects and on-farm resilience work. In 2025, Josephine County Farm Collect in Grants Pass received $75,000 for food worker/safety infrastructure, and Good Groceries LLC in Enterprise received $75,000 for disaster resilience. Those grants sit within a broader pattern of support for producers, food hubs, and food distribution organizations that are trying to maintain continuity, storage, equipment, and safe working conditions. The foundation also makes room for community food access efforts and advocacy-related work through its stated focus areas, but the recent grant list is especially concentrated on the practical systems that move food from farms and processors to communities. Its public charity status and annual grantmaking of more than $1.2 million indicate a compact funder with a focused regional agenda.
What Oregon Community Food System Network Funds
A major theme is food system continuity. Grants to George Farmer Collective in Mosier and Lane County Bounty in Eugene were both tagged for food worker/safety infrastructure, pointing to support for the operational side of local food distribution. Disaster readiness is the other dominant lane: Centor Provisions in Bend and Casad Family Farms in Madras each received grants for disaster resilience, aligning with the foundation’s farm and ranch resilience priorities. The foundation also funds community-based food infrastructure. Bohemia Food Hub in Cottage Grove received support for food worker/safety infrastructure, and North Coast Food Web in Astoria was funded in the same category, showing attention to food hubs as part of regional supply chains. In addition, Black Food Sovereignty Coal in Portland received a grant for food worker/safety infrastructure, reflecting the funder’s interest in food-system organizations rooted in community-led work.
How Oregon Community Food System Network Gives
The recent awards cluster around mid-sized grants, with several at or near the program caps shown in the active grant programs: $75,000, $68,000, $54,905, $51,046, and multiple awards in the $40,000 range. The list also includes smaller grants down to $9,998, indicating a spread from modest project support to larger infrastructure investments. The 2025 grant list suggests active one-year project funding rather than a documented multi-year pattern. The foundation is a public charity and does not fund individuals, and the active programs shown on its opportunities page accept unsolicited applications in several cases, including rolling applications for the Empowering Healthy Living Grant.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.3M
Total Assets
$2M
Total Revenue
$343K
Total Expenses
$2.8M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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