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AMBER WAVES FARM INC

AMBER WAVES FARM INC (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,701,137 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($535,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.1M
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$1.2M
21/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Amber Waves Farm Inc does

Mission

An ocean-side farm, amber waves unites food and community with the mission to provide educational opportunities for aspiring growers, thoughtful cooks, and eaters of all ages.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The community supported agriculture (csa program) consists of 375 families that join the farm to share the risks and rewards of the growing season. Csa members actively participate in sustainable agriculture by purchasing local, seasonal, organic food directly from farmers. The general public is also welcome to visit the working farm for self-guided tours and programming.

    $1,937,916 spent$5,545,064 earned by the program
    59% of program spending
  2. Food education: amber waves connects eaters, especially children, to their food and the farmers growing it, to establish a foundation for lifelong land stewardship and healthy eating through on-farm education; field trips, summer camps and weekly community farm visits.

    $524,703 spent$173,051 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  3. Apprenticiship program: provides farm apprentices with the primary skills needed to pursue a carer in agriculture through in-depth, on-farm instruction in a variety of subjects most important to organic farming, as well as access to nearby workshops, lectures and conferences.

    $620,779 spent
    19% of program spending
  4. Food security: the organization has collaborative partnerships with local food pantries. The farm grows and donates tens of thousands of pounds of produce and value-added products each year.

    $210,708 spent
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,294,106.

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 ($853k) Expenses 100 ($845k) Net assets 100 ($453k)2018 Revenue 105 ($899k) Expenses 121 ($1.0M) Net assets 73 ($328k)2019 Revenue 154 ($1.3M) Expenses 158 ($1.3M) Net assets 68 ($306k)2020 Revenue 297 ($2.5M) Expenses 224 ($1.9M) Net assets 210 ($949k)2021 Revenue 320 ($2.7M) Expenses 328 ($2.8M) Net assets 201 ($912k)2022 Revenue 393 ($3.3M) Expenses 392 ($3.3M) Net assets 209 ($949k)2023 Revenue 460 ($3.9M) Expenses 459 ($3.9M) Net assets 219 ($994k)2024 Revenue 483 ($4.1M) Expenses 461 ($3.9M) Net assets 267 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (483)Expenses (461)Net assets (267)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 2019 to 2020, from $699k to $1.2M (+67%).

$653k
$624k
$699k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.9M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

28% of AMBER WAVES FARM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
−$125k
’18
−$22k
’19
$643k
’20
−$37k
’21
$37k
’22
$45k
’23
$222k
’24
0.4
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.

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Listed55587777
Joined·+0+0+4+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·0011110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $152k → $590k.

11 of 42 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 AMBER WAVES FARM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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

AMBER WAVES FARM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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

51% 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 AMBER WAVES FARM INC.

20%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 89% · 2019 44% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% — 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

59% of AMBER WAVES FARM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of AMBER WAVES FARM INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DE
KS
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMBER WAVES FARM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 10%Fundraising 5%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMBER WAVES FARM INC?
AMBER WAVES FARM INC (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,701,137 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($535,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMBER WAVES FARM INC have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,701,137 in grants to AMBER WAVES FARM INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMBER WAVES FARM INC?
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $535,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMBER WAVES FARM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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