New York · Nonprofit
HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC
HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,448,615 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($3,865,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Hawthorne Valley Association Inc does
Mission
The organization engages in the establishment and maintenance of a rural institution that affords recreational, vocational, and educational opportunities and aids students in developing practical trades and skills. The instruction is based upon the pedagogical principles and methods of rudolf steiner (or waldorf schools).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization is an independent day school providing elementary and high school education (pre-k through grade 12) using methods of rudolf steiner. The organization also offers adult education including foundation studies, a two year waldorf teacher training, and trainings in the arts.
$4,433,614 spent$4,633,262 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe visiting students program has intern and counselor positions for young adults to work with students from urban and suburban schools, grades 3 through 12, who come to farm during the school year to work with animals alongside the farmers.
$648,475 spent$886,781 earned by the program6% of program spendingResearch and other: this program is comprised of the following sub programs:- center for social research: strives to promote social health by supporting freedom and choice in cultural life, equality and democracy in political life, and associative cooperation in economic life;- farmscape ecology: a participatory research and outreach program that fosters compassion for the ecological and cultural landscape of columbia county, new york;- long table harvest: gleans produce from area farms for distribution to food pantries;- light forms: an art center offering public presentations, exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, an artist-in-residence program, publications, and a small gift shop-alkion publications: publishes and distributes books grounded in the path of inner development outlined by rudolf steiner-net positive: a program that a) contributes more to the natural world and its inhabitants than it extracts, b) harmonizes social, economic, and environmental needs, and c) formalizes and embeds these commitments in every aspect of the association. The association's efforts will address carbon reduction, ecosystem stewardship, and climate risk mitigation at an…
$756,259 spent7% of program spendingStore, farm, and dairy operations: the association operates an organic/natural foods and grocery store that is open to the public along with a biodynamic farm and dairy operation at its location in ghent, ny. Turose, a gift and school supply store, is also operated by the organization at their main campus in ghent, ny.
$5,000,927 spent46% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,839,275.
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 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $15M (+17%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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
Martin Ping
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $499k → $872k.
13 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 56% · 2019 48% · 2020 61% · 2021 66% · 2022 58% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
88% of HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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
HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $945k on record — $847k federal, $98k state.
- Department of Agriculture$847k
- Other Grants$98k
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 HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC?
- HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,448,615 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($3,865,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $7,448,615 in grants to HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,865,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing