California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,021,977 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,550,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Community Alliance With Family Farmers does
Mission
CAFF's mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. CAFF works with farmers, buyers and food advocates across the State of California.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Farm to MarketCAFF connects farms with businesses, providing growers with a suite of practical services - from coordinating institutional purchasing to marketing resources - to ensure supply and demand grow together. From our Farm to Cafeteria Initiative, to our work with the CSA Innovation Network (a partnership with 15 technical assistancee groups), and the "Local Food Systems Response to COVID Network", we provide direct support to farms all across California through direct technical assistance, research, and by sharing valuable resources, Purchasing Collaboratives are groups of school and hospital food service purchasing representatives from the same region, utilizing common distributors and farmers.
$1,347,569 spent21% of program spendingFarmer ServicesWe provide technical support to hundreds of family farmers across California with services: The Small Farm Tech Hub supports small family farms and food enterprises in adopting technoogy-based solutions for their direct marketing challenges; our food safety program helps growers provide healthy and safe produce to their markets through workshops, webinars, online resources and more.
$2,066,616 spentof which $1,892,899 as grants32% of program spendingEcological Farming We work with farmers, policy makers, researchers, and local technical assistance providers to promote, improve, and better understand the adoption of ecological farming throughout California. CAFF's California Agricultural Water Stewardship Program (CA WSI) teaches growers how to use water more sustainably, while other programs emphasize integrated pest management, on-farm diversity, and building hedgerows.
$876,220 spent14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$2,131,636 spent33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,422,041.
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.
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 $2.0M to $7.2M (+256%).
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 31% · 2018 37% · 2019 21% · 2020 13% · 2021 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Paul Towers
Executive director
Board chair
Dawnie Andrak
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $191k → $1.7M.
18 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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 ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 25% · 2019 53% · 2020 25% · 2021 32% · 2022 43% · 2023 32% — 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
44% of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
92% of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS 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 COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS: 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 COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS?
- COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,021,977 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,550,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $11,021,977 in grants to COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS 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 65 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