California · Nonprofit
Jasper Ridge Farm
Jasper Ridge Farm (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,187,991 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($812,005). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $469k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Jasper Ridge Farm does
Mission
Our goal is to improve the lives of children and adults in need in our community through interaction with our gentle animals, including children facing life-threatening illness, those living with special needs, those facing family challenges such as homelessness or domestic violence, Veterans and active military, those who are incarcerated, and senior citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HorseBuddiesThis is a unique experiential learning program where horses provide the mode of learning for special needs students in our community. The goals of this program are to increase physical activity, and improve the mental and social well-being of students. Horseback riding and horsemanship activities require increased physical activity and improve level of fitness, balance, coordination and core strength. Learning new skills and overcoming fears improve feelings of self-confidence and self-esteem. Participating in a group of peers is a team-building experience where students encourage, motivate and support each other.Total served in 2025: 717
$124,838 spent$1,815 earned by the program28% of program spendingHorseHeroesThis is an adaptive horseback riding program created to serve Veterans, disabled Veterans and active military, who participate along with a VA staff Recreational Therapist. Veterans benefit physically through horseback riding, which requires balance, coordination and core strength. They benefit emotionally through learning new skills and overcoming challenges, which improves self-confidence and self-esteem, and they benefit socially from participating in a group of their peers, where they encourage, motivate and support each other.Total served in 2025: 143
$86,250 spent$104 earned by the program19% of program spendingWellnessBuddiesPartnering with mental health organizations, clinicians and school therapists, this programs goal is to improve the mental well-being of youth in our community. Therapists utilize Jasper Ridge Farm animals in their sessions, which significantly improves the effectiveness of the sessions because the animals put the children at ease, and help the children open up more willingly. This approach is also uniquely helpful in children for whom English is a second language. This program creates a safe atmosphere and incorporates animal interaction into the therapy sessions to improve mood and reduce anxiety, stress and depression. Sessions can take place on the farm or at an offsite location.Total served in 2025: 2406
$83,099 spent$4,537 earned by the program19% of program spendingAnimals Helping ChildrenThis program connects a farmyard of gentle therapy animals with the most vulnerable children in our community including those who are facing life-threatening illnesses, homelessness, at-risk, underserved, or living with special needs. The animals accept the children unconditionally and provide comfort. For those children who are unable to travel to the farm, our mobile unit can bring goats, sheep, bunnies, guinea pigs, chickens and miniature horses to them!Total served in 2025: 915
$82,658 spent$1,381 earned by the program19% of program spendingAnimals Helping PeopleThis program connects a farmyard of gentle therapy animals with the most vulnerable adults in our community including those living in retirement facilities, or those with disabilities. The animals accept the adults unconditionally and provide comfort. For those adults who are unable to travel to the farm, our mobile unit can bring goats, sheep, bunnies, guinea pigs, chickens and miniature horses to them!Total served in 2025: 541
$54,715 spent$3 earned by the program12% of program spendingAnimals Helping Incarcerated PersonsThis unique program connects with incarcerated women at Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, California. A farmyard of gentle goats, sheep, bunnies, guinea pigs, chickens and miniature horses provides weekly virtual interactive programming. Total served in 2025: 331
$7,951 spent2% of program spendingYouth Impact TeamYouth volunteers play a significant role at Jasper Ridge Farm, supporting animal care, feeding, grooming, exercising and socializing, as well as helping with facility maintenance and events. Through hands-on service, youth experience the impact of contributing to something larger than themselves.Total served in 2025: 74
$3,021 spent1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $442,532.
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 2022 to 2023, from $892k to $1.7M (+85%).
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: 2021 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Jasper Ridge Farm’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Alexandra Lopez
Board Chair
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 $171k → $381k.
12 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Jasper Ridge Farm’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Jasper Ridge Farm leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Jasper Ridge Farm.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 42% · 2019 29% · 2020 30% · 2021 22% · 2022 15% · 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
57% of Jasper Ridge Farm's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
74% of Jasper Ridge Farm'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 $568k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Jasper Ridge Farm receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Jasper Ridge Farm
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jasper Ridge Farm: 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 Jasper Ridge Farm?
- Jasper Ridge Farm (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,187,991 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($812,005). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Jasper Ridge Farm have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,187,991 in grants to Jasper Ridge Farm, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jasper Ridge Farm?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $812,005 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jasper Ridge Farm 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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