Vermont · Nonprofit
FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,345,875 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($280,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc does
Mission
Joyful play. Purposeful work. Rugged outdoor living. Our camps and conservation efforts teach timeless skills and kindle the spirit within. Our values honor our quaker roots and are guided by quaker values and practices, including simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equity and sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer camps: summer camps are comprised of four overnight camps (firefly song, saltash mountain, tamarack farm and timberlake), one day camp (barn day camp) and a family camp. Functional expenses include camp director and camp staff salaries and benefits, trip and food expenses, programming supplies, and miscellaneous contract services. While each camp has its own unique activities and traditions, all our summer camps have the same overall program goals that align with our common mission.
$1,531,339 spent$1,469,132 earned by the program36% of program spendingAdministration, development and marketing: functional expenses of administration, development and marketing include the following: year-round and seasonal staff salaries and benefits, professional fees, supplies and office expenses, insurance, technology, and contract services
$213,538 spent$204,863 earned by the program5% of program spendingBuildings and ground and rentals/other: buildings and ground and rentals/other is comprised of year-round and seasonal staff salaries and benefits, professional fees, supplies and office expenses, utilities, property taxes, leasehold improvements, repairs and maintenance, vehicle and travel expenses, technology, and facilities rental income.
$725,334 spent$695,869 earned by the program17% of program spendingCamp support: camp support is comprised of admissions, staff recruitment, staff training, operations, healthcare, and the farm. Functional expenses include year- round and seasonal staff salaries and benefits, professional fees, supplies and office expenses, equipment rental, travel expenses and technology.
$1,791,778 spentof which $886,763 as grants$1,718,991 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,261,989.
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 2018 to 2019, from $12M to $16M (+29%).
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 37% · 2021 7% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 17 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $194k → $229k.
23 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
74% 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 FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 39% · 2019 31% · 2020 26% · 2021 38% · 2022 36% · 2023 13% — 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
50% of FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
69% of FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC'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 $722k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $364k on record.
- Grants$350k
- Other Grants$6k
- Other Purchased Services$6k
- Gr, Awards, Scholarships&Loans$2k
- Emp Training & Background Chks$150
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 FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Farm and Wilderness Conservation · exempt
- James a Hall Forest Reserve As · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION 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 FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC?
- FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,345,875 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($280,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,345,875 in grants to FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 53 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