New York · Nonprofit
AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC
AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,792,103 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($775,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Agricultural Stewardship Assn Inc does
Mission
Asa is dedicated to promoting farming for the future through land protection, stewardship, agricultural viability, and outreach activities. The organization's mission is to protect our community's working farms and forests, connect people to the land, and promote a vibrant future for agriculture and forestry in the region. The organization's service area covers new york's rensselaer and washington counties, with around 1,300 farms contributing approximately 200 million in product sales annually to the local economy.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Land protection and acquisition - the organization operates a conservation easement program with a primary focus of conserving farmland and forestland. In addition to donated easements, the organization purchases easements from willing landowners and operates purchase of development rights (pdr) programs for rensselaer and washington counties. During this fiscal year, the organization assisted landowners with the conservation of approximately 793 acres on 3 farms. Two of these projects involved awarded state farmland or forestland protection funding and one was a donated easement. Baseline documentation reports were completed for all the properties that were conserved. The organization also advanced another 12 easements totaling 2,498 acres, the majority of which have been awarded state funding. In addition, the organization owns and manages two community forests for woodland management and recreational and educational purposes.
$592,983 spent$3,431 earned by the program66% of program spendingEducation and outreach - educating people about conservation tools and the importance of local farms and the need to protect farmland and forestland is an integral part of the organization's mission. The organization holds outreach sessions and regularly talks with service and business associations, schools, municipalities and private landowners about the importance of land conservation and ways to keep farmers on the land. Many public educational opportunities are offered throughout the year to connect people to the importance of working lands and benefits they provide. The organization also continued to develop new partnerships and programs with community organizations in urban areas of the capital district. Recognizing that protecting farmland and fostering farming goes hand in hand, the organization continued to partner with others to provide support to farmers. This included training for farmers, farm match services, peer to peer mentoring and continued implementation of county agricultural and farmland protection plans.
$151,119 spent17% of program spendingEasement stewardship and management - the organization successfully completed stewardship visits to all 176 existing easements in order to fulfill its ongoing responsibility to uphold the terms of its easements and protect the conservation values of the conserved land. The organization has undertaken a series of initiatives to improve its stewardship program, including purchasing collective easement defense insurance (terrafirma rrg) to protect its organizational assets in case of litigation, hiring additional stewardship staff for added capacity, and incorporating more technology for improved efficiency and effectiveness with stewardship tasks. The organization responded to many landowner questions and permission requests regarding their easements. The organization continues to communicate with landowners of easement protected land and actively meets with new owners to establish a relationship and discuss the easements. As part of its continuing efforts to strengthen relationships with owners of conserved lands, it sponsored several landowner workshops this year on topics such as soil health, regenerative agriculture, and chain saw safety. The organization received land trust…
$152,346 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $896,448.
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 2025 to 2026, from $4.3M to $5.3M (+24%).
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: 2017 43% · 2018 65% · 2019 80% · 2020 47% · 2021 74% · 2022 80% · 2023 79% · 2024 58% · 2025 65% · 2026 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $57k → $485k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 56% · 2019 17% · 2020 27% · 2021 29% · 2022 38% · 2023 41% — 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
52% of AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
57% of AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $558k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 23 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 23 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC?
- AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,792,103 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($775,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,792,103 in grants to AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC?
- THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing