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Pennsylvania Certified Organic

To uphold and advance organic principles and practices through certification, advocacy, and technical support.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.1MArts & Culture$255kEnvironment$223kScience & Tech$15kYouth Development$12kEducation$8k
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $1,564,460 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,765,413 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $200,953 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
$37,226
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOFA - NEW YORK$234,958
NOFA - MASS$154,101
NOFA - VT$143,838
NOFA - NH$133,688
BLACK FARMERS INDEX$118,740
MOFGA CERTIFICATION SERVICES LLC$103,722
WEST VIRGINIA FOOD & FARM COALITION$87,589
VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL$80,658
NOFA - NJ$79,673
NOFA - CT$61,587
GLYNWOOD CENTER INC$60,145
THE RODALE INSTITUTE$54,824
FOODSHED ALLIANCE$39,534
MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE$37,226
GROW PITTSBURGH$21,287
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY SWETTE CT: $20k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS- AMHERS: $10k → 11%NOFA - MASS: $154k → 12%THE RODALE INSTITUTE: $57k → 11%GROW PITTSBURGH: $21k → 11%GLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $60k → 6%EAST END FOOD INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%NEW CT FARMER ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%NOFA - NEW YORK: $235k → 20%AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $17k → 14%NOFA - CT: $88k → 12%WEST VIRGINIA FARMERS MARKET ASSOC: $17k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 19%NOFA - NJ: $100k → 4%FOODSHED ALLIANCE: $40k → 7%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW: $12k → 8%VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL: $100k → 14%NORTHERN GRAIN GROWERS COLLABORATIV: $18k → 9%VERMONT WAY FOODS: $8k → 10%LOT 49 LLC: $9k → 11%STANNARD FARM VERMONT PURE MAPLE SY: $6k → 14%BLACK FARMERS INDEX: $119k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $8k → 11%ORGANIC INDEPENDENTS LLP: $6k → 7%NOFA - NH: $134k → 7%MOFGA CERTIFICATION SERVICES LLC: $104k → 13%MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE: $37k → 15%NOFA - MASS: $109k → 12%THE RODALE INSTITUTE: $55k → 11%GROW PITTSBURGH: $14k → 11%NOFA - NEW YORK: $100k → 20%NOFA - CT: $62k → 12%WEST VIRGINIA FARMERS MARKET ASSOC: $7k → 18%NOFA - NJ: $80k → 4%FOODSHED ALLIANCE: $13k → 7%VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL: $81k → 14%NORTHERN GRAIN GROWERS COLLABORATIV: $10k → 9%VERMONT WAY FOODS: $6k → 10%BLACK FARMERS INDEX: $27k → 17%NOFA - NH: $105k → 7%MOFGA CERTIFICATION SERVICES LLC: $100k → 13%WEST VIRGINIA FOOD & FARM COALITION: $100k → 18%VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS' ASSOCIA: $12k → 9%NOFA - VT: $144k → 10%WEST VIRGINIA FOOD & FARM COALITION: $88k → 18%VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS' ASSOCIA: $5k → 9%NOFA - VT: $111k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
WV
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 17 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$2.4M
$26k

Still filing today

94%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationArts & CultureEmploymentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • NO
    NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I
    2× · 2023–2024 · $335k · revenue +2%
  • NO
    NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $239k · revenue +17% · 33% of their budget
  • WV
    West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $188k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • AS
    ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • OI
    ORGANIC INDEPENDENTS LLP
    one grant, 2023 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Organic Farmers Association

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Sustainable Growers
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3
Agricultural Health Benefits Alliance Educational Foundation Llc
Education
4
Sustainable Food Alliance Inc

To educate the public about the positive health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming.

Environment
5
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
6
Organic Growers Research and Information Sharing N

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Alliance for Food and Farming Inc

The Alliance for Food and Farming delivers credible information to consumers about the safety of fruits and vegetables.

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8
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Vermont Grass Farmers Association

To promote, manage, and oversee grazing outreach and education programs in Vermont.

Environment
11
Adams County Farmers Market Association Inc

The adams county farmers market association is committed to building vibrant farmers' markets which support small-scale producers, enhance the communities we serve, assist families with access to fresh nutritious food and educate the…

Food & Nutrition
12
Northeast Organic Farming Association Inc

Education regarding organic agriculture

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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 West Virginia University Research Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 30 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I — $334,958 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY INORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION MA CHAPTER INC — $262,917 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION MA CHAPTER INCNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $238,918 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPSHIREMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $203,722 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATIONWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc — $187,589 · Food & NutritionWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition IncVIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC — $180,658 · Food & NutritionVIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INCNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC — $149,087 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INCBLACK FARMERS INDEX — $145,780 · Food & NutritionBLACK FARMERS INDEXRodale Institute — $111,519 · Food & NutritionRodale Institute+6 more — $148,879 · Food & Nutrition+6 moreNortheast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc — $179,673 · OtherNortheast Or…NORTHERN GRAIN GROWERS COLLABORATIV — $28,262 · OtherNORTHERN GRA…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherARIZONA STAT…VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOC INC — $17,199 · OtherVERMONT MAPL…RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $11,946 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $10,015 · Other+3 more — $21,081 · Other+3 moreNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT — $254,603 · Arts & CultureNORTHEAST …MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE — $37,226 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION — $15,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $8,460 · EducationGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $60,145 · Public BenefitINTERVALE CENTER INC — $13,949 · Employment
Food & Nutrition$1,964,027Other$288,176Arts & Culture$254,603Education$61,086Public Benefit$60,145Employment$13,949

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I — $334,958 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION MA CHAPTER INC — $262,917 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT — $254,603 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $238,918 over 2y, 33% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $203,722 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc — $187,589 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC — $180,658 over 2y, 42% of budgetNortheast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc — $179,673 over 2y, 31% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC — $149,087 over 2y, 19% of budgetBLACK FARMERS INDEX — $145,780 over 2y, 38% of budgetRodale Institute — $111,519 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $60,145 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOODSHED ALLIANCE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $52,796 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE — $37,226 over 1y, 15% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH — $35,007 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWest Virginia Farmers Market Association Inc — $23,830 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetVERMONT MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS ASSOC INC — $17,199 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $16,820 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION — $15,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $15,073 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $13,949 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $8,460 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Food Institute — $5,353 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Farm Aid IncPennsylvania Associat…Earth Island Institut…American Farmland Tru…PatagoniaorgImpactassetsincTides FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Farm Aid IncMA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farm Aid Inc · Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture · Earth Island Institute Inc · American Farmland Trust · Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Certified Organic 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Assoc Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Assoc of Connecticut Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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