Maine · Nonprofit
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,033,036 to it, the largest being LESHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,684,825). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $563k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $989k
What Darrowby Farm Sanctuary does
Mission
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary provides a safe and lifelong home for farmed animals and educates people about living a mutually beneficial life with those animals in ways that do not use them for food or forced labor.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the 2024/2025 fiscal year, Darrowby Farm Sanctuary continued to grow their ability to meet their goal of growing compassion in our world through rescue, rehabilitation, and education. Focusing on compassionate care for all Darrowby staff and community members brought more people, rescued residents, and community members into the sanctuary. The need for large animal rescue continued to grow in Maine. This year was no exception for Darrowby. In November an abused and scared horse named Fiona joined the sanctuary family. Two pigs abandoned after the sale of a residence joined Darrowby in May. Both Thumbelina and Huncamunca arrived with many health problems but quickly took to sanctuary life enjoying being able to go outside for the first time in years. Exploring their pasture and soaking up the sun. July brought to Darrowby another member of the goat herd. Silvius came to the sanctuary after an animal control officer reached out to sanctuary staff from a small island community on the coast of Maine. We discovered quickly that despite arriving with poor nutrition and health Silvius most needed a family to call his own. Darrowby is so honored to provide that to him. The Spring…
$421,316 spent$262 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $421,316.
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 2021 to 2022, from $80k to $734k (+814%).
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.
98% of Darrowby Farm Sanctuary’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Amanda Glenn
Executive Director, President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $400k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Darrowby Farm Sanctuary’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Darrowby Farm Sanctuary.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Darrowby Farm Sanctuary's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Darrowby Farm Sanctuary
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Darrowby Farm Sanctuary: 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 Darrowby Farm Sanctuary?
- Darrowby Farm Sanctuary (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,033,036 to it, the largest being LESHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,684,825). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Darrowby Farm Sanctuary have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,033,036 in grants to Darrowby Farm Sanctuary, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Darrowby Farm Sanctuary?
- LESHER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,684,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Darrowby Farm Sanctuary find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing