Virginia · Nonprofit
HAPPILY NATURAL DAY
HAPPILY NATURAL DAY (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $711,070 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $680k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $711k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Happily Natural Day does
Mission
Happily Natural Day promotes holistic health, cultural and social change. We develop urban gardens and farms to increase access to healthy food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Farms and gardens: the sankofa community orchard is a five-acre green space dedicated to food justice and climate resiliency, consisting of over 80 fruit trees in the southside of richmond, virginia. Our mission is transforming the built environment for food justice & climate resiliency. We train community members in the design, implementation and stewardship of regenerative greenspace. We emphasize land justice and the redistribution of land to bipoc communities across our region.
$163,654 spent33% of program spendingThe brook road youth farm is a 12-week youth farming program designed to teach youth to increase access to healthy food.
$163,654 spent33% of program spendingCentral virginia urban farmer fellowship: the central virginia urban farmer fellowship is a 12-week training program that teaches regenerative agriculture, urban greening and community building within the city. The program is designed to provide citizens with the skills necessary to increase the number of sustainable urban green spaces supported by the community. The increase of green space in urban areas is documented to increase residents' pride of place, stimulate economic vitality and provide healthy, engaging spaces where communities come together and for shared social experiences.the fellowship program takes place at central and accessible locations throughout the neighborhoods of richmond va. Partner organizations provide space for in-classroom training; subsequent hands-on service-learning experiences either a) take place at the same location or b) within proximity to the training location.classes are small (12 - 16) to allow for an optimal experiential learning environment. In-classroom sessions are 3 hours long and equal parts presentation, discussion, and group activity to build community among trainees. Subsequent hands-on service-learning components take place on…
$163,654 spentof which $230 as grants33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $490,962.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $7k to $70k (+870%).
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: 2022 18% · 2023 4% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HAPPILY NATURAL DAY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $90k → $239k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 HAPPILY NATURAL DAY’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
HAPPILY NATURAL DAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
81% 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 HAPPILY NATURAL DAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 74% · 2021 72% · 2022 59% · 2023 27% — 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
20% of HAPPILY NATURAL DAY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 28% 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
62% of HAPPILY NATURAL DAY'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 $268k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HAPPILY NATURAL DAY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HAPPILY NATURAL DAY
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAPPILY NATURAL DAY?
- HAPPILY NATURAL DAY (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $711,070 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAPPILY NATURAL DAY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $711,070 in grants to HAPPILY NATURAL DAY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAPPILY NATURAL DAY?
- COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAPPILY NATURAL DAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 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