Virginia · Nonprofit
ELK HILL FARM INC
ELK HILL FARM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,451,965 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($908,315). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Elk Hill Farm Inc does
Mission
Elk hill farm, inc. Enables children and families to transform overwhelming challenges into successful futures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Elk hill farm has three schools that provide students with an individualized education, vocational training, and a continuum of counseling and therapeutic services. Elk hill's trained professional teachers, counselors and licensed therapists work with children and their parents in school and at home, helping them to develop positive coping and communication skills.
$4,767,385 spent$5,660,865 earned by the program37% of program spendingElk hill's residential programs offer a safe and caring environment in which young people can learn to identify, analyze and acquire skills to cope with their problems, improve academic and social skills and develop self-confidence and responsibility. Elk hill operates five residential group homes. Set in supportive community environments, daily routines are structured around learning behavioral and independent-living skills which will allow them to transition into the community to become productive citizens.
$4,771,768 spent$5,275,429 earned by the program37% of program spendingElk hill offers a variety of community-based services to youth and their families through its professionally trained and licensed counselors. These services include school-based therapeutic day treatment, outpatient counseling and community-based therapeutic mentoring and intensive in-home services. Elk hill operates summer programs where at-risk children can learn corrective behaviors, while at the same time enjoying a traditional summer camp experience.
$3,419,288 spent$2,966,048 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,958,441.
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.
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 $8.3M to $9.6M (+15%).
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: 2021 29% · 2022 9% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Ronald K Spears
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $425k → $1.1M.
10 of 72 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Elk Hill Farm Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ELK HILL FARM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ELK HILL FARM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
ELK HILL FARM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
43% 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 ELK HILL FARM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 17% · 2019 39% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 10% · 2023 26% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of ELK HILL FARM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
90% of ELK HILL FARM INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like ELK HILL 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Elk Hill Farm Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC?
- ELK HILL FARM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,451,965 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($908,315). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELK HILL FARM INC have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $5,451,965 in grants to ELK HILL FARM INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELK HILL FARM INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $908,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELK HILL FARM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 72 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