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ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC

ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,603 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC ($384,712). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$22M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$390k
Net assets
$15M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Academy at the Farm Inc does

Mission

The academy at the farm empowers students to achieve academic excellence, grow as responsible citizens, and embrace innovation through a curriculum that blends technology with agricultural education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The academy at the farm empowers students to achieve academic excellence, grow as responsible citizens, and embrace innovation through a curriculum that blends technology with agricultural education

    $8,563,580 spent$8,212,829 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,563,580.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($648k)2018 Revenue 104 ($5.0M) Expenses 105 ($5.0M) Net assets 90 ($583k)2019 Revenue 115 ($5.4M) Expenses 112 ($5.3M) Net assets 106 ($687k)2020 Revenue 117 ($5.5M) Expenses 114 ($5.4M) Net assets 126 ($818k)2021 Revenue 125 ($5.9M) Expenses 120 ($5.7M) Net assets 164 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 134 ($6.3M) Expenses 135 ($6.4M) Net assets 149 ($965k)2023 Revenue 151 ($7.2M) Expenses 147 ($7.0M) Net assets 176 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 189 ($9.0M) Expenses 174 ($8.3M) Net assets 280 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 466 ($22M) Expenses 193 ($9.2M) Net assets 2282 ($15M)
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Revenue (466)Expenses (193)Net assets (2282)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.8M to $24M (+313%).

$4.7M
$4.5M
$5.0M
$5.2M
$5.2M
$4.9M
$4.9M
$5.8M
$24M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’17
−$65k
’18
$104k
’19
$131k
’20
$246k
’21
−$100k
’22
$173k
’23
$674k
’24
$13M
’25
4.4
months of
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.

Chief executive

Joshua Borders

Executive director as of march 2025

Board chair

Suzanne Larkin

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed141414121215141510
Joined·+1+0+0+0+6+4+3+2
No longer listed·10203527
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $89k → $1k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $66 on record.

State$66
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $66

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC?
ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,603 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC ($384,712). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $389,603 in grants to ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC?
FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC is the largest funder on record, with $384,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACADEMY AT THE FARM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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