Alaska · Nonprofit
CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER
CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER (Alaska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $565,795 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($132,043). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $566k
- Net assets
- $947k
What Calypso Farm & Ecology Center does
Mission
To encourage local agriculture and environmental awareness through hands-on education in natural and farm ecosystems
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Local food access, community food relief, community shared agriculture and awareness programs - works to increase the volume of and access to fresh, locally grown food to all members of the community through food production, distribution and outreach. Serves approximately 3,000 people annually.
$613,872 spent$284,770 earned by the program99% of program spendingField trips and day camps - providing hands-on, farm and garden-based education for youth of all ages. Serving approximately 3,000 people annually.
$2,827 spent$7,693 earned by the program0% of program spendingHunter school garden - maintaining an educational garden that is a learning space for the school during the school year and a food production garden during the summer (the community roots gardening and leadership program for teens and young adults takes place in the garden during the summer months and involves approximately 10 people annually). Overall - the program serves over 350 students at 1 school.
$1,641 spent$800 earned by the program0% of program spendingFarm & garden training programs - hands-on education programs that provide participants information and experience needed to start or maintain their own farm or garden. This includes workshops, farm apprenticeships, short term intensives, indigenous agriculture trainings. Serves 1,000 people annually.
$370 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $618,710.
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 2024 to 2025, from $686k to $1.2M (+74%).
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 37% · 2018 30% · 2019 29% · 2020 32% · 2021 38% · 2022 49% · 2023 38% · 2024 26% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $27k → $101k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER’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
CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
62% 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 CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 72% · 2019 61% · 2020 37% · 2021 47% · 2022 56% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
74% of CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.2M
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 CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER: 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 CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER?
- CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER (Alaska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $565,795 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($132,043). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $565,795 in grants to CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $132,043 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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