Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EASTIE FARM INC
EASTIE FARM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,447,218 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($548,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Eastie Farm Inc does
Mission
Eastie farm is dedicated to pursuing climate justice, improving food access, and fostering community resilience through the development of interactive urban agricultural spaces and environmental education programs in which residents of all ages and backgrounds are encouraged.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student stewards: educated farm visitors, community organizations, and boston public schools students on holistic food systems, local food growing, climate change, and environmental stewardship in the following ways:junior farmers program - elementary summer program climate nature - school-term elementary and middle school program youth climate corps - earn-to-learn high school fellowship in-garden workshops (food growing, composting, stormwater management, food preservation, etc.)corporate team-building service days focused on bringing people together across difference through meaningful, hands-on projects and climate/food literacy workshops.
$324,685 spentof which $115,707 as grants$4,671 earned by the program32% of program spendingProduce for the people: worked towards alleviating food insecurity in the community and creating an equitable, sustainable, and healthy, local food system in the following ways:our community supported agriculture (csa) program had 350 subscriptions in its third year. It redirects local funds to local farms and reduces food miles/carbon emissions. We destigmatize food aid by offering the same food to people from wide-ranging socioeconomic backgrounds. We supported over 100 families by providing affordable/free weekly csa shares.regular free produce distribution. No sign-up required, no questions asked.
$412,235 spent$272,077 earned by the program41% of program spendingLiving lands: farming focused on growing community and regenerative agriculture in the following ways:hosted weekly harvest parties during the growing season. Helped gardeners get started with our annual seedling sale to over 100 persons.demonstrated climate solutions at various scales - we operate a zero-emissions geothermal greenhouse in east boston (first of its kind in new england), mitigate stormwater, increase soil health, offer urban composting, etc.demonstrated positive climate impact of local farming and local food consumption. Invested in and made partnerships with local ma farms that use regenerative farming methods and are owned by bipoc, minority, and socially disadvantaged community members.
$263,650 spent$1,833 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,000,570.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $349k to $1.6M (+345%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 57% · 2022 57% · 2023 30% · 2024 46% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of EASTIE FARM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Kannan Thiruvengadam
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $8k → $679k.
5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 EASTIE FARM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
EASTIE FARM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
44% 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 EASTIE FARM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 89% · 2020 60% · 2021 42% · 2022 40% · 2023 21% — 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
36% of EASTIE FARM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
82% of EASTIE FARM INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $651k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
EASTIE FARM INC 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
Government funding EASTIE FARM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record — $1.8M federal, $1.3M state.
- National Science Foundation$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$750k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.3M
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 EASTIE FARM INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 EASTIE FARM 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTIE FARM INC?
- EASTIE FARM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,447,218 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($548,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTIE FARM INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,447,218 in grants to EASTIE FARM INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTIE FARM INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $548,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTIE FARM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 40 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