California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC
CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,640 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ($155,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz Countylocal
- Sustainable Futures Fundportfolio match
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 9% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $14k → $155k.
1 of 3 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ccof Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS 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
CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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 CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 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
CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $890 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 384 organizations that share them.
- Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz CountylocalCA · funds 46 organizations near you
- Sustainable Futures Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Farm Bureau Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elizabeth R & William J Patterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Croplife Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Globetrotter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Growing Tree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McGrath Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gaia Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kim Seong Choo & Myung Hee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Cotton Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.7M
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 CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Ccof Certification Services LLC · exempt
- Ccof Foundation · exempt
- Ca Certified Organic Farmers Action Fund · exempt
- Ccof Ocal Certification Services LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC?
- CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,640 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ($155,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $169,640 in grants to CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC?
- AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing