· Public charity
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
Pasa is a community of farmers and supporters, focused on education and evidence-based research, for the purpose of building a more economiclly- just, environmentally-regenerative, and community-focused food system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $1,270,502 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,261,051 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,990,549 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING VT | $153,433 |
| NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING MA | $144,394 |
| COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINABLE | $125,004 |
| NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING NY | $113,775 |
| RAMAPOUGH CULTURE AND LAND FOUND | $109,971 |
| MAINE FARMLAND TRUST | $104,889 |
| OUR SCI | $103,707 |
| HAND IN HAND | $97,868 |
| CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASS | $80,917 |
| FUTURE HARVEST | $75,485 |
| NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING NJ | $70,360 |
| MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS & GARDENERS | $38,454 |
| OPENTEAM CO WOLFE'S NECK FARM | $30,045 |
| MAD AGRICULTURE | $22,200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HIHand in Hand Mano en Mano3× · 2023–2025 · $279k · revenue +6%
- MFMaine Farmland Trust2× · 2024–2025 · $178k · revenue +61%
- MAMAD AGRICULTURE3× · 2023–2025 · $44k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- PFPITTSBURGH FOOD POLICY COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue +37%
- SRSTROUD RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $12k
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To uphold and advance organic principles and practices through certification, advocacy, and technical support. we envision a world where agriculture systems prioritize health, ecological balance, fairness and care. our values recognize the…
To facilitate the developement of sustainable food systems by helping groweres to increase their knowledge of agro-ecosystems management and utilization of local and regional marketing strategies.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.
Organic seed alliance puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. our work promotes an abundant and diverse supply of organic seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled, diverse and interconnected communities of seed stewards.
Growing a local food system where the health of people and planet come first
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Organic Farming Assoc of Ny I and the most unlike its peers is Hand in Hand Mano en Mano. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION MA CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPOUGH CULTURE AND LAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds FUTURE HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH FOOD POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MAD AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pennsylvania Certified Organic · Farm Aid Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Future Harvest Inc — 41% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc — 6% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.