Montana · Nonprofit
Gallatin Valley Farm to School
Gallatin Valley Farm to School (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,895 to it, the largest being New Priorities Foundation co Third Plateau ($65,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $184k
What Gallatin Valley Farm to School does
Mission
Gallatin Valley Farm to School connects kids and families with local food in the garden, classroom, cafeteria, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Garden and classroom lessons: aligned to state and NGSS learning standards, GVF2S & classroom lessons connect kids with healthy local food and enrich classroom learning using a place based and hands on curriculum focused on celebrating Montana grown food.
$16,578 spentof which $106,896 as grants113% of program spendingFamily programs: GVF2S family programs are offered on a sliding scale and bring the entire family together to learn new cooking skills, how to cook on a budget, and how to incorporate kids into the meal decision and cooking process.
Community youth programs: GVF2S camps and other youth programs combine creativity, inquiry, and peer learning to create a fun learning environment where kids can explore local food, agriculture, science, and cooking.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,685. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $92k to $184k (+101%).
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: 2019 15% · 2020 24% · 2021 16% · 2023 1% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Gallatin Valley Farm to School’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Emily Martin
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $30k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Gallatin Valley Farm to School’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
Gallatin Valley Farm to School has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 Gallatin Valley Farm to School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 75% · 2019 72% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 45% · 2023 33% — 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
27% of Gallatin Valley Farm to School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
Gallatin Valley Farm to School draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Gallatin Valley Farm to School runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Gallatin Valley Farm to School receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Gallatin Valley Farm to School
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
38% 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 Gallatin Valley Farm to School: 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 Gallatin Valley Farm to School?
- Gallatin Valley Farm to School (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,895 to it, the largest being New Priorities Foundation co Third Plateau ($65,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gallatin Valley Farm to School have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $199,895 in grants to Gallatin Valley Farm to School, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gallatin Valley Farm to School?
- New Priorities Foundation co Third Plateau is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gallatin Valley Farm to School find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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