Virginia · Nonprofit
Forgotten Farms
Forgotten Farms (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being BESSIE MINOR SWIFT FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Forgotten Farms does
Mission
Our mission is to provide sustainably-farmed, organic, non-GMO, and heirloom produce, meat, and eggs to individuals and families in need.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In the year 2020, we accomplished the following:- Bionutrient Food Donation Program - The purpose of this program is to produce and distribute organically-grown produce and pastured meat and eggs that are bionutrient rich to local food banks. Our goal is to provide sustainably-farmed, organic, non-GMO, heirloom produce and meat and eggs from heritage breeds to individuals and families in need to combat food insecurity and nutrient-deficiency in our community. Forgotten Farms has donated over 300 pounds of bionutrient-rich heirloom produce, almost 1000 pounds of pastured meat and ovwe 200 dozen eggs from heritage-breed livestock to local food banks in addition to almost $1000 in heirloom plant donations to local gardeners;- Heritage Livestock Breed Conservation Program - Forgotten Farms is focused on preserving and promoting rare breeds by educating the public about heritage livestock breeds and locating and establishing production herds of heritage breed livestock that meet the breed standards to maintain their rare biodiversity providing valuable options for the future of farming. Forgotten Farms has preserved over 20 rare breeds and established over a dozen breeding lines of…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Forgotten Farms’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Forgotten Farms's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Forgotten Farms
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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Forgotten Farms: 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 Forgotten Farms?
- Forgotten Farms (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being BESSIE MINOR SWIFT FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Forgotten Farms have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to Forgotten Farms.
- Who is the largest funder of Forgotten Farms?
- BESSIE MINOR SWIFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Forgotten Farms find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 1 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