Connecticut · Nonprofit
Holcomb Farm Inc
Holcomb Farm Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,881 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($221,112). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $327k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Holcomb Farm Inc does
Mission
To preserve, promote, and utilize a historic New England farm for food production, education, and responsible community use.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Holcomb Farms Farming Program Holcomb Farm utilizes approximately 25 acres to sustainably grow chemical free produce, which it sells through several outlets Summer and Winter Community Support Agriculture - CSA shares a retail Farm Store on site wholesale to the Fresh Access program and local restaurants and periodic pop-up farmers market. The Farm Store also sells other locally produced products. In all, the farming programs promote healthy living through quality, locally-grown fresh food, including educational and pick-your-own opportunities for members of the CSA.
$447,993 spent$386,351 earned by the program81% of program spendingFresh Access Holcomb Farms Fresh Access program raises funds through donations and grants to acquire produce grown at the farm and make it available to people who would not otherwise have access. The produce is distributed through community partners, whose programming in Granby, the Farmington Valley, and the Greater Hartford region allows people to access the food for free while avoiding overhead expenses.
$107,290 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $555,283.
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 $520k to $1.5M (+195%).
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: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Holcomb Farm Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $48k → $64k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Holcomb 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
Holcomb Farm Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Holcomb Farm Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 86% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 85% · 2022 46% · 2023 66% — 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
29% of Holcomb Farm Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
85% of Holcomb Farm Inc'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Holcomb Farm Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Holcomb Farm Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68k on record.
- State Aid Grants$68k
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 Holcomb Farm 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Holcomb 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Holcomb Farm Inc?
- Holcomb Farm Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,881 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($221,112). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Holcomb Farm Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $326,881 in grants to Holcomb Farm Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Holcomb Farm Inc?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $221,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Holcomb 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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