Connecticut · Nonprofit
Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc
Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,447 to it, the largest being The Platner Family Foundation Inc ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Thomas and Patricia Cornish Family Foundationshared funders
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio match
- Northeast Agricultural Education Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc’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 Terra Firma Farm Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- The Thomas and Patricia Cornish Family Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northeast Agricultural Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Green Leaf Foundation Nushin Kormi Et Al Trusteesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Certified Organicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Aid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Facundo & Amalia Bacardi Foundation Incshared fundersFL · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Northwest Community Bank Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Ct Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Skodnek Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio 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 Terra Firma Farm Inc
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Terra Firma Farm Inc: 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 Terra Firma Farm Inc?
- Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,447 to it, the largest being The Platner Family Foundation Inc ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,447 in grants to Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc?
- The Platner Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Terra Firma Farm Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), 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