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Community Agroecology Network

Community Agroecology Network (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,664,029 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,604,461). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$734k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$813k
16/25 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Community Agroecology Network does

Mission

Community Agroecology Network's (CAN) mission is to develop a network comprised of rural communities in Latin America and U.S. consumers that work together to support self-sufficiency and sustainable farming practices.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. CAN's network provides rural communities in Mexico, Central and South America and California with the tools to become economically viable through agriculture while also benefiting the environment through:Action Research: Farm-based research involving investigators and farmers with information generated from within and provided to the community. This year CAN facilitated action research initiatives in California focused on intergenerational knowledge transmission about agroecological and food preparation practices as well as collective experimentation on soils regeneration.Education: Community education, technical assistance, leadership development, consumer education, and ongoing exchanges and participation between the member communities. This year CAN held an international youth exchange focused on food sovereignty in Peru. CAN also raised awareness on U.S. campuses and at local farmers markets about agroecology and solidarity economies. CAN also facilitated a learning community in southern Mexico supporting youth learning about agroecology and solidarity economies. Marketing: Development of producer-controlled markets that support local communities and create direct links with…

    $984,215 spent$16,473 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $984,215.

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 ($492k) Expenses 100 ($487k) Net assets 100 ($164k)2018 Revenue 101 ($495k) Expenses 74 ($360k) Net assets 183 ($299k)2019 Revenue 147 ($723k) Expenses 110 ($538k) Net assets 296 ($484k)2020 Revenue 205 ($1.0M) Expenses 79 ($384k) Net assets 676 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 138 ($676k) Expenses 152 ($738k) Net assets 632 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 167 ($820k) Expenses 172 ($840k) Net assets 548 ($898k)2023 Revenue 176 ($864k) Expenses 181 ($884k) Net assets 554 ($907k)2024 Revenue 198 ($973k) Expenses 217 ($1.1M) Net assets 500 ($818k)2025 Revenue 149 ($734k) Expenses 162 ($789k) Net assets 497 ($813k)
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Revenue (149)Expenses (162)Net assets (497)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 $583k to $1.9M (+234%).

$303k
$407k
$583k
$1.9M
$2.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.7M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of Community Agroecology Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$135k
’18
$185k
’19
$623k
’20
−$62k
’21
−$20k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$87k
’24
−$56k
’25
9.8
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.

Board chair

Sonja Swift

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1099888866
Joined·+2+0+0+1+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·30111030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $59k → $867k.

11 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Community Agroecology Network’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

Community Agroecology Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

34% 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 Community Agroecology Network.

44%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 77% · 2019 33% · 2020 40% · 2021 73% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.

“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

75% of Community Agroecology Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

Community Agroecology Network draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

MI
MA
CA

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

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’18
’19
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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $909k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Community Agroecology Network is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Community Agroecology Network receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.

Federal$2.5M
grants $2.5Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$2.5M

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 Community Agroecology Network

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Community Agroecology Network?
Community Agroecology Network (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,664,029 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,604,461). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Community Agroecology Network have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,664,029 in grants to Community Agroecology Network, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Community Agroecology Network?
WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,604,461 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community Agroecology Network 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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