Maryland · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY FARMSHARE
COMMUNITY FARMSHARE (Maryland) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,416 to it, the largest being HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $473k
- Net assets
- $919k
What Community Farmshare does
Mission
Community Farmshare is a montgomery county based nonprofit working to create a thriving, connected food system that produces food, health and well-being for people who have the least access to healthy food options, while renewing and protecting the planet by supporting local small scale produce farmers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Farm to school (f2s) - Community Farmshare provides weekly fresh produce to referred families at high farms rates montgomery county public schools, providing a key nutrition benefit during the agricultural season (including summer months when healthy food access is challenging with reduced school meals programs). School case management workers refer families in need of consistent healthy food assistance. The program's goals are to support childhood nutrition, address food insecurity and make the link between healthy eating and local farms, in order to foster healthy eating habits in line with a disease prevention model.
$149,389 spentof which $7,500 as grants19% of program spendingFood is medicine (fim) - Community Farmshare partners with community based organizations, clinics and nutrition educators to support low income residents facing food insecurity and managing diet related chronic disease (and addressing disease prevention in their households). The program includes weekly fresh produce during the agricultural season, supported by nutrition education and one on one motivational counseling to support lasting positive health outcomes. Program participants are low-income, living in communities lacking healthy food access, therefore facing increased risk for diet related chronic disease.
$263,675 spent33% of program spendingCfs sells local produce through our food hub services to facilitate nonprofits/community based organizations to purchase local produce for their own food assistance programming through their grant funding. We sell local produce to capital area food bank through their federal local food purchase agreement.
$389,428 spent$589,103 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $802,492.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $75k to $594k (+692%).
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: 2023 38% · 2024 50% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of COMMUNITY FARMSHARE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Jennifer Freeman
Executive director
Board chair
Lucia Zegarra
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $108k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FARMSHARE’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 FARMSHARE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
57% 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 FARMSHARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2022 26% · 2023 55% — 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
69% of COMMUNITY FARMSHARE's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k 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
COMMUNITY FARMSHARE 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
Organizations like COMMUNITY FARMSHARE
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FARMSHARE: 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 FARMSHARE?
- COMMUNITY FARMSHARE (Maryland) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $473,416 to it, the largest being HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY FARMSHARE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $473,416 in grants to COMMUNITY FARMSHARE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FARMSHARE?
- HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY FARMSHARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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