California · Nonprofit
HONORE FARM AND MILL
HONORE FARM AND MILL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,000 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $319k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $306k
What Honore Farm and Mill does
Mission
Honore Farm and Mill is dedicated to restoring and strengthening the relationship between people and the land through regenerative farming practices the cultivation of heritage grains and experiential education. Our mission is to serve every California student food made with locally grown whole grains.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Farming - Honore Farm and Mill partners with local family farmers in Northern California to grow climate-smart landrace heirloom varieties of wheat on certified-organic plots using sustainable farming practices. The grain produced from these plots is cleaned and stone-milled into flour in the Northern Bay Area.
$4,957 spent$31,147 earned by the program38% of program spendingEducation - Honore Farm and Mills mission is to create a connection between our locally grown and stone milled whole grain and our food system through education and awareness. Honore Farm and Mill provides hands-on planting and harvesting education on our partner farm plots. To extend this education outside of the farm we collaborate with California School Food Authority Staff Garden educators and teachers to provide hands-on education using a mobile-mill and a developed curriculum to plant tend harvest thresh winnow and mill wheat. Additionally we are working alongside California school district Food and Nutrition Services staff to develop recipes that can be used in school cafeterias to nourish thousands of students with delicious nutrient-dense whole grains.
$8,164 spent$7,001 earned by the program62% of program spendingSale of Products - Honore Farm and Mill is a non-profit because our mission is to educate and serve everyone in our community. We support our charitable work through the sales of flour and heirloom wheat products such as shortbread cookies. In addition to the grain that we farm see above we buy and sell other varieties of whole grain flour grown by other Northern California farmers to sell flour individually and through a CSA to help support the non-profit educational work.
$0 spent$48,339 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,121.
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 2024 to 2025, from $221k to $347k (+57%).
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: 2023 35% · 2024 31% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of HONORE FARM AND MILL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 6 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
Elizabeth DeRuff
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 HONORE FARM AND MILL’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
HONORE FARM AND MILL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 HONORE FARM AND MILL.
“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.
Where its funders are
68% of HONORE FARM AND MILL'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 $70k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HONORE FARM AND MILL 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 HONORE FARM AND MILL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $201k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$201k
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 HONORE FARM AND MILL
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.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HONORE FARM AND MILL: 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 HONORE FARM AND MILL?
- HONORE FARM AND MILL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,000 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HONORE FARM AND MILL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $219,000 in grants to HONORE FARM AND MILL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HONORE FARM AND MILL?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HONORE FARM AND MILL 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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