California · Nonprofit
AGRARIAN INSTITUTE
AGRARIAN INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,550 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($148,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Agrarian Institute does
Mission
We help people learn humanity's original purpose- stewardship of the earth for the common good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025 , The Agrarian Institute made significant strides in fighting food insecurity and promoting regenerative agriculture in North County San Diego. Through our education programs, we taught over 12 hands-on classes and empowered local families with the skills to grow their own food. We harvested 7,500 pounds of organic produce-all donated to families in need through our local partnership with Operation Hope NC and Fallbrook Food Pantry. We planted 25 fruit trees and 250 pollinator plants to foster long-term community resilience. We hosted 8 interns from California State University San Marcos and we welcomed over 750 volunteers.
$106,271 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $106,271.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $81k (+62%).
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.
100% of AGRARIAN INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $148k → $35k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 AGRARIAN INSTITUTE’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
AGRARIAN INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 AGRARIAN INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
50% of AGRARIAN INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $145k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k 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.
Against its field
AGRARIAN INSTITUTE's revenue fell 24% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGRARIAN INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGRARIAN INSTITUTE?
- AGRARIAN INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,550 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($148,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AGRARIAN INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $293,550 in grants to AGRARIAN INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRARIAN INSTITUTE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $148,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRARIAN INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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