Kansas · Nonprofit
KC FARM SCHOOL INC
KC FARM SCHOOL INC (Kansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,665 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($258,997). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $846k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $601k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Kc Farm School Inc does
Mission
We empower indiviudals through on-farm, hands-on experiences and vocational education connecting them to land, food, themselves, and their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education - kc farm school grows food and teaches people how to grow food. We bring 10k people onto the farm each year to learn hands-on how to start seeds, prep the soil, plant, care for, and harvest vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers. We mentor backyard growers providing free plants and supplies, teach all ages on-farm, hands-on, and train youth through a paid apprenticeship program. We host educational visitors for school groups, volunteers, community festivals, workshops, and meet-ups. We facilitate two coalitions of farmers and farmers markets. We encourage regenerative practices and prairie restoration.
$501,055 spent$11,048 earned by the program68% of program spendingFood - kc farm school grows food regeneratively on 14 acres in southeast wyandotte county. Every year, we grow and share more than 10,000 pounds of chemical-free, nutrient-dense produce and herbs. We have a 50 member csa, host a weekly farmers market, sell wholesale to restaurants and through the kansas city food hub, and donate food neighborhood food pantries.
$230,471 spent$82,597 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $731,526.
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 $61k to $130k (+113%).
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 10% · 2021 22% · 2022 11% · 2023 41% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of KC FARM SCHOOL INC’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 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.
Chief executive
Alicia Ellingsworth
Executive director
Board chair
Karen Gupta
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $39k → $60k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 KC FARM SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
KC FARM SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 KC FARM SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 51% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 70% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of KC FARM SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 64% 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
KC FARM SCHOOL INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213k 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
KC FARM SCHOOL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding KC FARM SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.4M
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 KC FARM SCHOOL 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KC FARM SCHOOL INC?
- KC FARM SCHOOL INC (Kansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,665 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($258,997). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KC FARM SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $600,665 in grants to KC FARM SCHOOL INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KC FARM SCHOOL INC?
- HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $258,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KC FARM SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 14 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