California · Nonprofit
Friends of Loma Vista Farm
Friends of Loma Vista Farm (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,339 to it, the largest being SYAR FOUNDATION SUSAN L SYAR DIRECTOR ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Friends of Loma Vista Farm does
Mission
The specific purpose is to support Loma Vista Farm and Garden Education Center, an outdoor classroom that provides hands-on educational activities involving plants and animals for children of all ages and abilities, increasing their knowledge of nature and nutrition while enhancing academic learning, eco-literacy, and psychosocial development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Spring Open House-Families and surrounding Communities visit and tour the Farm, meet the animals, enjoy the activities and entertainment. Estimated number of visitors: 300
$100 spent0% of program spendingSummer of Fun Camp-Children enroll on a weekly basis to enjoy and learn from outdoor educational classroom setting involving activities (animals, nature and plants). Estimated number of children per week: 40
$13,580 spent36% of program spendingPasta Feed & Auction-Community members, Supporters and Sponsors join together in the annual fundraiser to support our mission and primary exempt purpose. Estimated attendance: 150-250 See Schedule G.
$5,449 spent14% of program spendingPumpkin Patch-Open for Families and Community to visit Farm, promote our mission and primary exempt purpose, and purchase pumpkin(s).
$2,160 spent6% of program spendingHarvest Festival-Open for Families and Community to visit the Farm for pumpkins, plants, farm ware items and other educational activities. We promote our mission and primary exempt purpose.
$1,881 spent5% of program spendingChristmas Tree Sales Event-Open for Families, surrounding communities, and general public to visit the Farm, purchase trees, poinsettias, and wreaths. This is a major fundraiser that involves promoting our mission and primary exempt purpose. See Schedule G.
$14,690 spent39% of program spendingLoma Vista Farm programs provide school children with experiential learning opportunities that bolster their academic skills in a farm-based setting. The Farm is a 5-acre outdoor classroom that provides hands on educational activities involving plants and animals for children of all ages and abilities. We seek to increase students' knowledge of nature and nutrition while enhancing academic learning, ecoliteracy, and psychosocial development.
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,860.
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.
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 $454k to $279k (−38%).
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 (57% 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
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.
Chief executive
Janice Sullivan
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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) — 44% 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 56% 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
44% 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 state 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 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· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Loma Vista 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.
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.
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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 $44,339 to it, the largest being SYAR FOUNDATION SUSAN L SYAR DIRECTOR ($25,000). 1 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 $44,339 in grants to Friends of Loma Vista Farm, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Loma Vista Farm?
- SYAR FOUNDATION SUSAN L SYAR DIRECTOR is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 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 2 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