Missouri · Nonprofit
EARTHDANCE
EARTHDANCE (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,671 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($198,015). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Earthdance does
Mission
Earthdance advances food justice by training organic farmers and gardeners of all ages, providing connection to healthy food and the land, and cultivating a vibrant community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General program support covered an array of small but essential activities that ensured the continuity of EarthDance and its mission-driven work. These funds provided flexibility to respond to immediate community needs and maintain operational stability.
$496,772 spent65% of program spendingEarthDance adult education includes Spring Training for Gardeners, a quick-start five week program for individuals interested in learning backyard and community gardening. In 2024, the program served 86 participants. The education offerings also include two full season paid apprenticeships, and five paid summer apprenticeship options for individuals pursuing a career in agriculture. In addition, 1,152 attendees participated in other workshops and farm tours. EarthDance also fosters an active volunteer corps, with 345 volunteers contributing more than 2,500 hours of service on the farm in 2024.
$116,585 spent$20,593 earned by the program15% of program spendingFarm to School: EarthDance partners with the FergusonFlorissant School District to connect more than 10,000 students, families and staff to farm-to-school programming for ages K12. This initiative includes garden-based professional development for district teachers, an agri-culinary internship program that gives high school students culinary and farming skills, service-learning opportunities for young people on the farm, and support for school district gardens by the Farm to School educator at EarthDance. In 2024, EarthDance served more than 1,000 students and 18 district teachers through farm tours, field trips, nutrition and cooking lessons for students, and garden-based professional development for district staff. Two school district gardens were supported during our Plant it Forward event with activities such as mulching, weeding, bed building, deer fencing and planting in 2024.
$84,889 spent$20,794 earned by the program11% of program spendingParticipation in the Pay What You Can Farm Stand grew in 2024. Community members from the greater St. Louis area utilized the Pay What You Can Farm Stand 802 times, up 8% over 2023. $14,759 worth of organic produce was distributed at the Farm Stand. $4,879 in discounts off the retail value of the produce was provided, up 48% from 2023. 58% of shoppers were residents of North St. Louis County, and roughly one in four shoppers lived in Ferguson.
$67,817 spent$65,639 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $766,063.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+19%).
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 27% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 31% · 2023 39% · 2024 29% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of EARTHDANCE’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. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $26k → $125k.
11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 EARTHDANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
EARTHDANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
60% 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 EARTHDANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 39% · 2019 20% · 2020 29% · 2021 35% · 2022 42% · 2023 30% — 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
53% of EARTHDANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
55% of EARTHDANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $506k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $614k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
EARTHDANCE holds deeper cash reserves 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
Government funding EARTHDANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record — $1.0M federal, $229k state.
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$229k
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 EARTHDANCE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARTHDANCE: 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 EARTHDANCE?
- EARTHDANCE (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,671 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($198,015). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EARTHDANCE have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,119,671 in grants to EARTHDANCE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARTHDANCE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $198,015 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARTHDANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 32 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