Texas · Nonprofit
FARMSHARE AUSTIN
FARMSHARE AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,819 to it, the largest being TEXAS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY ($149,706). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $635k
- Net assets
- $698k
What Farmshare Austin does
Mission
Farmshare Austin's mission is to grow a healthy, just and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FOOD ACCESS: Our food access centers on Fresh for Less Mobile Markets and Home Delivery, providing year-round, reliable, reduced price farmers' market quality produce and healthy grocery items to a 25 zip code area in the Eastern Crescent of Austin and Travis County, covering a 442 square mile area. Provided food access for over 9,000 customers and their families through Mobile Markets and Home Delivery. Distributed over 66,000 lbs of farmers' market quality produce. 20% of Fresh for Less customers shop using their SNAP benefits and Double Up Food Bucks, which stretches their food budget and provides access to high quality, nutrient-dense foods for themselves and their families.
$1,015,978 spent$519,408 earned by the program68% of program spendingGENERAL: Other programs that fulfil Farmshare Austins mission to grow a healthy, just and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers. Over 35,000 lbs of organic produce was harvested from the farm, with over half going directly to community food access
$257,713 spent17% of program spendingEDUCATION. Our farmer training builds a pathway for beginning farmers interested in launching careers in organic and sustainable farming, including Farmer Starter, Cultivator and the Central Texas Farm Incubator Collaborative. Farmer Starter completed its 19th cohort with a total of 123 graduates since the program started in 2014. Farmshare launched the Central Texas Farm Incubator Collaborative, providing land access, mentorship and technical assistance to 5 new organic farm businesses.
$222,098 spentof which $26,400 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,495,789.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $363k to $701k (+93%).
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: 2018 36% · 2019 31% · 2020 38% · 2021 48% · 2022 44% · 2023 53% · 2024 68% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of FARMSHARE AUSTIN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $7k → $122k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 FARMSHARE AUSTIN’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
FARMSHARE AUSTIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
67% 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 FARMSHARE AUSTIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 22% · 2020 18% · 2021 38% · 2022 59% · 2023 41% — 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
31% of FARMSHARE AUSTIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
65% of FARMSHARE AUSTIN's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k 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.
Against its field
FARMSHARE AUSTIN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FARMSHARE AUSTIN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $848k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$848k
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 FARMSHARE AUSTIN
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARMSHARE AUSTIN: 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 FARMSHARE AUSTIN?
- FARMSHARE AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,819 to it, the largest being TEXAS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY ($149,706). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARMSHARE AUSTIN have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $634,819 in grants to FARMSHARE AUSTIN, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARMSHARE AUSTIN?
- TEXAS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY is the largest funder on record, with $149,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARMSHARE AUSTIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 19 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