Washington · Nonprofit
LEADING HARVEST
LEADING HARVEST (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,311,612 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Leading Harvest does
Mission
Leading Harvest provides educational programs and independently audited certification standards to improve sustainability outcomes and create transparency in agriculture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Leading Harvest was founded with the goal of leading the creation and development of an all-encompassing sustainable farming management certification platform to advance sustainable agriculture and preserve and protect the natural environment and farming communities. An inaugural all-cropland standard was created and finalized in the form of the Leading Harvest farmland management program. Established in 2020, the organization quickly went to work enrolling participants and assisting them with establishing a relationship with a third party who would verify conformance to the standard in their own agricultural production. Leading Harvest also engaged in educational programming to ensure that its participants and the broader stakeholder community could advance sustainable agriculture and access the technical knowledge embedded in the Leading Harvest certification program. There are currently 27 enrolled participants that represent over one thousand individual farms that collectively exceed 1.9 million acres in the united states across 31 states over 100 different row and permanent crop types.to maintain certification, participants are subject to regular surveillance audits and…
$1,433,841 spent$2,064,930 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,433,841.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $3.6M (+61%).
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.
19% of LEADING HARVEST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Kenny Fahey
President and CEO
Board chair
Lawrence A Selzer
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $277k → $375k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 LEADING HARVEST’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
LEADING HARVEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
LEADING HARVEST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LEADING HARVEST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LEADING HARVEST
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lh Bridge Australia Ltd · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEADING HARVEST: 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 LEADING HARVEST?
- LEADING HARVEST (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,311,612 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADING HARVEST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,311,612 in grants to LEADING HARVEST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADING HARVEST?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADING HARVEST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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