California · Nonprofit
Friends of Loma Vista Farm
Friends of Loma Vista Farm (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,339 to it, the largest being SYAR FOUNDATION Susan L Syar Director ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of Loma Vista Farm's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fundshared funders
- Dyer Family Foundationportfolio match
- Rancho Santa Fe Garden Clubportfolio match
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.
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.
48% of Friends of Loma Vista Farm’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $19k → $20k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Loma Vista 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 Loma Vista Farm leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
49% 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 Loma Vista Farm.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 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
100% of Friends of Loma Vista Farm's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fundshared fundersCA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Dyer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rancho Santa Fe Garden Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ecology Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mariani Nut Company Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California ReLeafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yli Believe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hacienda Child Development Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arp Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Friends of Loma Vista Farm
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Loma Vista 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Loma Vista Farm?
- Friends of Loma Vista Farm (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,339 to it, the largest being SYAR FOUNDATION Susan L Syar Director ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Loma Vista Farm have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,339 in grants to Friends of Loma Vista Farm.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Loma Vista Farm?
- SYAR FOUNDATION Susan L Syar Director is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Loma Vista 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing