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Farms In The Heights

Farms In The Heights (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,853 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($17,628). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$90k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$45k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Farms In The Heights does

Mission

Farms in the Heights provides access to local food systems, grows our local economy and promotes environmental stewardship, for the benefit of all Jersey City Heights community members. We were established to enhance the health and well-being of Jersey City Heights residents. We connect our residents to one another through educational programming, community development and neighborhood arts & music events.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Running a weekly Farmers Market. On Sundays, May through November. We host 300-1000 customers per weekand serve ~15K people per season. We also support 20+ local farm and food vendors. Bringing fresh & healthy food toa relative food desert in an urban, underserved neighborhood. We do healthy educational programming around this market as well - teaching others how to cook & shop healthier, and compost.

    $3,640 spentof which $22,571 as grants
    9% of program spending
  2. SNAP / EBT Matching Program for Market Patrons. We run the largest andmost popular SNAP Matching program in the city. This allows our patrons to stretch their SNAP / EBT funds and makesour market much more affordable for them.

    $11,106 spentof which $7,407 as grants
    26% of program spending
  3. Music & Arts programming at the market. We offer free live music and hands-on arts events at our market for our patrons.

    $27,616 spentof which $10,168 as grants
    65% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,362.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2022 Revenue 118 ($69k) Expenses 143 ($54k) Net assets 166 ($38k)2023 Revenue 124 ($72k) Expenses 220 ($83k) Net assets 117 ($26k)2024 Revenue 206 ($120k) Expenses 240 ($91k) Net assets 245 ($56k)2025 Revenue 155 ($90k) Expenses 266 ($101k) Net assets 198 ($45k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (155)Expenses (266)Net assets (198)Peer revenue range

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 $27k to $56k (+109%).

$23k
$38k
$27k
$56k
$45k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

60% of Farms In The Heights’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’21
$15k
’22
−$11k
’23
$29k
’24
−$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $150.

Funder
'22
'23
'25*
'26*
total
funders
2
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Farms In The Heights’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Farms In The Heights leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 Farms In The Heights.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

99% of Farms In The Heights'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 $225 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Farms In The Heights has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Farms In The Heights

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 New Jersey

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Farms In The Heights?
Farms In The Heights (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,853 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($17,628). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Farms In The Heights have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,853 in grants to Farms In The Heights, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Farms In The Heights?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,628 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Farms In The Heights find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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