Connecticut · Nonprofit
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,973,766 to it, the largest being MJPM Foundation Inc ($540,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Momentum Conservationportfolio match
- Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Trportfolio match
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.
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 6% · 2019 75% · 2020 8% · 2021 20% · 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $151k → $306k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc 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
36% 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 Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 63% · 2019 30% · 2020 35% · 2021 33% · 2022 26% · 2023 26% — 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
54% of Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc'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
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $521k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 39 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 111 organizations near you
- Momentum Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Coast Heritage Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William and Alice Mortensen Foundationshared funderslocalCT · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 100 organizations near you
- Fields Pond Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruda Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carl Siemon Family Charitable Trust Cynthia Wyatt Et Al Tteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bafflin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$682k
- Appraisal Services$481k
- Management Consultant Services$256k
- State Aid Grants$123k
- Surveying & Mapping$62k
- Attorney Fees$59k
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 Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc?
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,973,766 to it, the largest being MJPM Foundation Inc ($540,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,973,766 in grants to Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc?
- MJPM Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 39funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing