Colorado · Nonprofit
Childrens Farms of America
Childrens Farms of America (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,632 to it, the largest being Montbello Organizing Committee ($190,782). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Childrens Farms of America does
Mission
Childrens Farms of America dba Childrens Farms in Action CFA is a 501c3 organization that inspires curiosity and passion for sustainable agriculture through education production and distribution of fresh healthy and culturally relevant foods within ECE-12 schools. CFAs programs include school-based education programs out-of-school-time programming summer camps internships for youth of color ages 14 - 18 a youth-led farmers market and a seasonal in-ground agricultural program that provides thousands of pounds to the communitys sustainable food access system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
CFA provided educational programming for adults youth and children and developed school-based gardens and urban farms in the Montbello neighborhood.
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The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $82k to $15k (−81%).
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 Childrens Farms of America’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Donna Garnett
Board President and Program Manager
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $118k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Childrens Farms of America’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
Childrens Farms of America leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Childrens Farms of America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of Childrens Farms of America's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
Childrens Farms of America runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Childrens Farms of America
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Childrens Farms of America: 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 Childrens Farms of America?
- Childrens Farms of America (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,632 to it, the largest being Montbello Organizing Committee ($190,782). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Childrens Farms of America have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $235,632 in grants to Childrens Farms of America, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Childrens Farms of America?
- Montbello Organizing Committee is the largest funder on record, with $190,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Childrens Farms of America find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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