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Farms to Grow Inc

Farms to Grow Inc (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,929 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($186,240). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$241k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$451k
Net assets
$141k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Farms to Grow Inc does

Mission

To assist socially disadvantaged farms.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assisted socially disadvantaged farms

    $40,069 spent$50,237 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $40,069.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($74k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 108 ($80k) Expenses 105 ($78k) Net assets 136 ($9k)2019 Revenue 89 ($67k) Expenses 87 ($65k) Net assets 165 ($11k)2020 Revenue 245 ($182k) Expenses 234 ($174k) Net assets 292 ($19k)2021 Revenue 219 ($163k) Expenses 254 ($189k) Net assets 136 ($9k)2022 Revenue 356 ($265k) Expenses 335 ($249k) Net assets 390 ($26k)2023 Revenue 492 ($367k) Expenses 385 ($286k) Net assets 1623 ($106k)2024 Revenue 323 ($241k) Expenses 277 ($206k) Net assets 2159 ($141k)
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Revenue (323)Expenses (277)Net assets (2159)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 2022 to 2023, from $26k to $114k (+349%).

$7k
$9k
$11k
$19k
$9k
$26k
$114k
$147k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Farms to Grow Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$300
’17
$2k
’18
$2k
’19
$8k
’20
−$26k
’21
$17k
’22
$81k
’23
$35k
’24
8.2
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $75k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 to Grow Inc’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 to Grow Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 to Grow Inc.

41%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 58% · 2022 72% · 2023 67% — 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

33% of Farms to Grow Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Farms to Grow Inc draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

NY
NV
CA
TN

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

’17
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Farms to Grow Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Farms to Grow Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $98k on record.

Federal$98k
grants $98kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$98k

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 Farms to Grow 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

17% of spending goes to programs.

Program 17%Management 77%Fundraising 6%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Farms to Grow Inc?
Farms to Grow Inc (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,929 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($186,240). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Farms to Grow Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $450,929 in grants to Farms to Grow Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Farms to Grow Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $186,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Farms to Grow Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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