California · Nonprofit
GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY
GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,668 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($58,090). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Garden to Table Silicon Valley does
Mission
To teach people how to grow their own food and build strong community bonds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Volunteer education days - open to all ages three days per week to learn and participate in garden education activities. This program serves 3,171 people per year.
$20,182 spentof which $9,274 as grants52% of program spendingK-12 field trips/service learning days - through hands-on learning, students learn the "whys and "hows" of urban farming. Serves 1,620 children and youth yearly.
$15,048 spent39% of program spendingMicrogreen program - an innovative, hydroponic technique that promotes sustainable agriculture and empowers all people, regardless of their access to land and resources, to grow food indoors all year round. Serves 250 people annually, with special classes for senior centers and nonprofits.
$3,571 spentof which $3,571 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,801.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $104k to $100k (−5%).
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.
99% of GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kalyn Simon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $107k.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY’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
GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 44% · 2023 49% — 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
75% of GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% 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
76% of GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY'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 $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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
GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $222k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY
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 GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY?
- GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,668 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($58,090). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $221,668 in grants to GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $58,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARDEN TO TABLE SILICON VALLEY 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.
Play a game about who funds Garden to Table Silicon Valley →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 9 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