California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM
FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,820 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($142,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $395k
- Net assets
- $568k
What Friends of Deer Hollow Farm does
Mission
Friends of Deer Hollow Farm is a volunteer, non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation founded in 1994 to help preserve Deer Hollow Farm, a working homestead farm and environmental education center in Silicon Valley. Their mission is to preserve Deer Hollow Farm, a historical area and working farm, and support the Farm's environmental education program for the benefit of schools and the community by raising funds through donations, grants, and public events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided funds to Deer Hollow Farm for purchase of farm animals, food, vet care, supplies and breeding costs
$89,608 spent48% of program spendingGrant to Deer Hollow Farm to assist with general operating costs of running the Farm including payroll and general office.
$22,248 spent12% of program spendingProvided funds to Deer Hollow Farm to help preserve the historical farm & support the environmental education program. Funds used to maintain buildings, garden, pens, and native American village and the teaching tools and supplies for the classes.
$36,532 spent20% of program spendingProvided scholarships to public schools if at least 20% of the students are eligible for the federal lunch program. This allowed children from low-income elementary schools to attend environmental classes by paying the class fees and the bus transportation.
$38,498 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,886.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $514k to $578k (+12%).
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: 2023 19% · 2024 16% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 held at 6 funders, grant income rose $34k → $69k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM’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
FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 68% · 2019 62% · 2020 34% · 2021 70% · 2022 41% · 2023 36% — 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
42% of FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
85% of FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM'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 $58k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $337k 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
FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM is better cushioned than half of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM: 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 FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM?
- FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,820 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($142,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $394,820 in grants to FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $142,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 14 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