California · Nonprofit
Barron Creek Farm
Barron Creek Farm (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($105,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Barron Creek Farm does
Mission
Barron Creek Farm is a small scale farm growing vegetables for our community. All of our fresh produce is donated. We work with local non profits food banks and other community service groups who are already working and serving food insecure populations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In late 2024 Barron Creek Farm concluded operations at its Los Altos Hills location. Following an extensive search for a viable site within the San Francisco Bay Area that yielded no suitable results the Board of Directors expanded its search to other underserved communities throughout California. In mid-2025 the organization entered into a strategic partnership with North Coast United Methodist Church and successfully relocated its operations to Oceanside in San Diego County. 2025 served as a significant transitional period. Due to the logistical requirements of the relocation and the necessary lead time for infrastructure setup and crop establishment production and donation volumes were temporarily reduced. The organization is currently in the final stages of site preparation and expects to return to full operational capacity in the coming year.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Transition to San Diego. The biggest program service accomplishment for 2025 was the transition of our farm from the San Francisco Bay Area Santa Clara county to Oceanside San Diego county. The move involved recruiting a new Executive Director finding appropriate land physically moving the structures equipment and tools to the new location finding new partners to support building and reassembling infrastructure greenhouses wash house etc. and of course establishing crops!
$112,447 spent84% of program spendingFresh Produce Distribution. During the calendar year 2025 Barron Creek Farm distributed over 500 pounds of vegetables and fruit grown on the farm.
$19,354 spent15% of program spendingCommunity Education Events. Barron Creek Farm held two volunteer work days on the new farm both with education components as well as hosting a Youth in Agriculture Panel at a local university conference.
$1,300 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $24k to $120k (+392%).
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 Barron Creek Farm’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Margaret Ferrigno
Executive Director
Board chair
Gen Lawrence
Founder and Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Barron Creek Farm’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Barron Creek Farm'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k 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
Barron Creek Farm has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Barron Creek Farm
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.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Barron Creek Farm: 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 Barron Creek Farm?
- Barron Creek Farm (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($105,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Barron Creek Farm have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $105,000 in grants to Barron Creek Farm.
- Who is the largest funder of Barron Creek Farm?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Barron Creek Farm 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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