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New York Farm Viability Institute Inc

The new york farm viability institute is a farmer-led non-profit organization that provides grant funding to applied research and outreach education projects that help farms increase profit and provide models for other farms.the institute is dedicated to working with farms of different sizes, sectors, production practices and locations…

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$16MEducation$418kHealth$281kEnvironment$207kCommunity Improvement$124kAnimals$96kScience & Tech$81kEmployment$5k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $282k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$47,184
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,346,491
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF MOUNT SINAI$114,189
CCE TOMPKINS COUNTY$63,679
OAK TREE CAPITAL LLC PERSISTENT BIOCONTROL$54,399
NEWTRIENT$50,081
GLYNWOOD CENTER INC$48,471
GLYNWOOD CENTER INC$47,184
NYS BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION$29,908
EVIDN LLC$29,016
SCOPED INC$21,796
CCE ALBANY COUNTY$17,897
CCE SUFFOLK COUNTY$14,902
MINER INSTITUTE$11,771
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$10,744
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $48k → 6%NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NY: $108k → 10%CTFANY: $58k → 11%HIGH FALLS FOUNDATION INC: $39k → 11%NYS BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $62k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $123k → 11%NY Corn and Soybean Growers Association: $55k → 12%ADVANCED AG ALLIANCE: $71k → 13%BASSETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $43k → 13%NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NY: $50k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $76k → 14%ZYMTRONIX CATALYTIC SYSTEM: $59k → 16%FARMROOTS GROWNYC: $56k → 17%GLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $47k → 20%OAK TREE CAPITAL LLC PERSISTENT BIOCONTROL: $54k → 10%AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $43k → 14%NEWTRIENT: $50k → 14%EVIDIN LLC: $43k → 6%NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NY: $60k → 10%ADVANCED AG SYSTEMS LLC: $86k → 11%NYS BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $47k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $70k → 11%ADVANCED AG ALLIANCE: $38k → 13%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY: $171k → 13%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF MOUNT SINAI: $114k → 17%CCE-SUFFOLK COUNTY: $143k → 7%ADVANCED AG SYSTEMS LLC: $70k → 11%NYS BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $38k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $38k → 11%PERRY VETERINARY CLINIC: $38k → 12%SUNY AT BUFFALO: $83k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.6M → 16%CCE-SUFFOLK COUNTY: $113k → 7%ADVANCED AG SYSTEMS LLC: $39k → 11%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY: $78k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 16%CCE SUFFOLK COUNTY: $49k → 7%SUNY AT BUFFALO: $49k → 13%DAIRY HEALTH & MGMT SERVICES: $50k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 16%NYS BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $79k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $975k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $403k → 16%CCE TOMPKINS COUNTY: $64k → 16%GROWNYC: $61k → 14%CCE-TOMPKINS COUNTY: $45k → 16%GROWNYC: $61k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 25 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
12

Total granted

$16M
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+2%

Still filing today

52%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Cornell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +59%
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    6× · 2018–2024 · $466k · revenue +56%
  • NO
    NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I
    8× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2024 · $76k · revenue +2%
  • HF
    HIGH FALLS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue -27%
  • WE
    WATERVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $28k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park Corporation

The organization's mission is to foster creation, retention and expansion of agriculture, food and related research and development enterprises to benefit the new york economy, and to strengthen the geneva experiment station by fostering…

Food & Nutrition
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation

The nasda foundation is the only educational and research organization that directly serves the nation's state departments of agriculture. we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. our mission is to enhance american food and agricultural…

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4
Ag Technology and Environmental Stewardship Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
National Corn Growers Association Foundation

Advance the interests of us corn farmers through research and education.

Food & Nutrition
6
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.

Food & Nutrition
7
Stone Barns Restoration Corp Dba Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri

Stone barns center is a nonprofit farm, education, and research center with a mission to catalyze an ecological food culture. since 2004, we have been driving innovation in sustainable farming practices and mindful food choices that…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Farm Bureau Inc

"to serve and strengthen agriculture".

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9
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
10
Organic Association of Kentucky

To improve the health of the environment and communities by advancing organic regenerative agriculture to grow ecological resilience, economic viability and socially just futures for kentucky farmers through educational, technical and…

Food & Nutrition
11
The Hudson Carbon Research Foundation in

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…

Environment
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Organic Farming Assoc of Ny I; the most unlike its peers is High Falls Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 41 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $12,959,636 · EducationCornell UniversityThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $466,464 · Education+3 more: $514,367 · EducationCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N Y: $368,509 · OtherCOOPERATIV…ADVANCED AG SYSTEMS LLC: $225,407 · OtherADVANCED A…COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N Y: $134,120 · OtherCOOPERATIV…ADVANCED AG ALLIANCE INC: $122,080 · OtherADVANCED A…NEW YORK CORN AND SOYBEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $84,416 · OtherOAK TREE CAPITAL LLC PERSISTENT BIOCONTROL: $75,732 · OtherEVIDIN LLC: $72,049 · OtherZYMTRONIX CATALYTIC SYSTEM: $70,881 · OtherDAIRY HEALTH & MGMT SERVICES: $64,639 · OtherPERRY VETERINARY CLINIC: $58,008 · Other+15 more: $330,226 · Other+15 moreNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I: $320,427 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $101,095 · Food & NutritionCHRISTMAS TREE FARMERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK INC: $80,523 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $22,347 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK STATE BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $290,296 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $28,674 · Community ImprovementCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $204,117 · EnvironmentThe Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital: $87,283 · HealthHIGH FALLS FOUNDATION INC: $38,528 · HealthGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $60,110 · Public Benefit
Education$13,940,467Other$1,606,067Food & Nutrition$524,392Community Improvement$318,970Environment$204,117Health$125,811Public Benefit$60,110

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $12,959,636 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $466,464 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I: $320,427 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $292,280 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STATE BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $290,296 over 7y, 78% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $204,117 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $146,346 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCED AG ALLIANCE INC: $122,080 over 3y, 79% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $101,095 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital: $87,283 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CORN AND SOYBEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $84,416 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCHRISTMAS TREE FARMERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK INC: $80,523 over 2y, 31% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $75,741 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $60,110 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $28,674 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFARMERS' MARKET FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $10,576 over 1y, 3.5% of budget
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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STATE BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCED AG ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CORN AND SOYBEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTMAS TREE FARMERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH FALLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds SCOPED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLIAM H MINER AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FARMERS' MARKET FEDERATION OF NEW YORK 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.

Cornell UniversityAmerican Farmland Tru…The Community Foundat…Central New York Comm…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Cornell UniversityNY23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cornell University · American Farmland Trust · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New York Farm Viability Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York Farm Viability Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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