Virginia · Nonprofit
A FARM LESS ORDINARY
A FARM LESS ORDINARY (Virginia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,041 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES ($286,508). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $559k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $258k
What A Farm Less Ordinary does
Mission
We provide employment and a welcoming community to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We encourage a sense of self-worth and independence for our "growers" through employment opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We employed 29 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as growers, who plant, maintain, and harvest vegetables using organic methods, and we provided volunteer opportunities on the farm for approximately 270 people for 5,288+ hours.
$328,169 spent76% of program spendingWe harvested and distributed 18,000 pounds of produce serving approximately 550 people.
$102,112 spent$42,919 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $430,281.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $139k to $225k (+61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2022 13% · 2023 18% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of A FARM LESS ORDINARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $7k → $183k.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A FARM LESS ORDINARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A FARM LESS ORDINARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A FARM LESS ORDINARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 56% · 2019 39% · 2020 36% · 2021 20% · 2022 26% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of A FARM LESS ORDINARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of A FARM LESS ORDINARY's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A FARM LESS ORDINARY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like A FARM LESS ORDINARY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY?
- A FARM LESS ORDINARY (Virginia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,041 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES ($286,508). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A FARM LESS ORDINARY have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,058,041 in grants to A FARM LESS ORDINARY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A FARM LESS ORDINARY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES is the largest funder on record, with $286,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A FARM LESS ORDINARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing