Rhode Island · Nonprofit
FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC
FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,664,070 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,422,021). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc does
Mission
Preserve rhode island farmland and our agricultural and culinary knowledge. Build healthier communities. Increase access to fresher, tastier food. Improve impact of food production and distribution on our environment. Strengthen community-based businesses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Harvest kitchen-part of farm fresh's intiative to increase the variety of value-added local foood products available and create a community-based food system. The program engages youths from the job-readiness training program within the division of juvenile corrections to create a line of high-quality preserved foods using ingredients sourced from local farmers at a certified kitchen. Products made in harvest kitchen are sold at local stores, farmers markets, and to market mobile customers. The program teaches youths multiple aspects of culinary technique and job skills.
$792,057 spent$173,499 earned by the program11% of program spendingFood access-part of farm fresh's mission to increase access to healthy foods, the program is primarily funded through grant awards to subsidize consumer purchases at farmer markets. The gusnip grant award has increased the size and visibility of the program as it seeks to promote healthy eating.
$2,055,687 spentof which $1,156,088 as grants$147,055 earned by the program27% of program spendingMarket mobile-a farm to business delivery service that seeks to strengthen the ties of business and the local food system. The goal of the program is to rebuild a more efficient local food distribution system that helps saves farmers and buyers both time and money. The program also seeks to provide a platform for distribution of quality fresh foods into underserved rhode island communities.
$2,644,491 spent$1,889,445 earned by the program35% of program spendingFarm fresh's other programs include communicity education, operating the food hub campus in providence, farmer markets across rhode island, and food system modeling.
$2,005,827 spent$1,072,480 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,498,062.
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 $12M to $20M (+68%).
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 9% · 2018 28% · 2019 42% · 2020 29% · 2021 60% · 2022 40% · 2023 41% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC’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. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
John Auger
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 31 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $1.2M.
11 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 FRESH RHODE ISLAND 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
58% 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 FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 32% · 2019 36% · 2020 23% · 2021 39% · 2022 32% · 2023 25% — 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 FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$14.5M
- Small Business Administration$812k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$581k
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 FRESH RHODE ISLAND 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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
- Ff Realty Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC?
- FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,664,070 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,422,021). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $8,664,070 in grants to FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,422,021 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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