· Private foundation
Blue Skies Farm Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sky High Farm | $145,000 |
| Stone Barns Restoration Corp | $50,000 |
| West Side Campaign Against Hunger | $20,000 |
| Madoo Conservancy Inc | $10,000 |
| New York Sun Works Inc | $10,000 |
| Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden | $5,000 |
| MAD Foundation | $5,000 |
| New Yorkers for Parks | $2,500 |
| Second Chance Foods | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSKY HIGH FARM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $245k · revenue -56%
- WSWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +4%
- MFMAD FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- FSFood & Society Aspen Instituteone grant, 2023 · $15k
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +43%
PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORPgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Council on the environment, inc. d/b/a grownyc ("grownyc") empowers all new yorkers to equitably access fresh, locally grown food and neighborhood green spaces, reduce waste, and care for the environment.
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden cultivates healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning and creative play.
New York Sustainable Agricultural Working Group (NYSAWG) is a not-for-profit organization located in western New York to raise awareness of issues affecting the sustainability of the food and agriculture system. The Organizations mission…
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Hudson carbon is dedicated to catalyzing the adoption of regenerative organic agriculture by advancing our scientific understanding of its practices and systems, and their potential to radically reverse climate change and environmental…
Denver urban gardens' (dug) mission is to provide access, skills, and resources for people to grow healthy food in community and regenerate urban green spaces.
The goal of Farm School NYC is to train the next generation of farmers in New York City and beyond, with a focus on limited resourced and socially disadvantaged individuals and communities, and to increase access to healthy, local food in…
Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…
Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…
To revitalize urban areas through agricultural and education programming. the organization offers practical, technical, and financial resources in support of environmental stewardship, equitable access to healthy food, and ecologically…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds MAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SUN WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MADOO CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOODS INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Skies Farm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Skies Farm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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