Virginia · Nonprofit
LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP
LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,788 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA ($246,081). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $868k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Local Environmental Agriculture Project Leap does
Mission
Local environmental agricultural project's (leap) mission is to create an equitable food and farming system which prioritizes health and abundance. We do this by supporting community initiatives, markets, farms, and farmers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leap serves as the fiscal agent for and provides backbone support to the statewide virginia fresh match nutrition incentive network (vfm). Vfm works with community-based food retailers, farmers markets, and farm stands to offer nutrition incentives for people who shop with snap-ebt at these 85+ participating outlets. Nutrition incentives make fruits and vegetables more affordable through a discount model (50% off) or a match model (1 in snap-ebt is matched with 1 in vfm incentives).
$1,207,854 spent43% of program spendingLeap purchases food from local and regional farmers and food producers and food hubs. Producers deliver to the food hub, leap receives, aggregates, stores, and then distributes the food through our outlets including the leap mobile market, community store, and farm share. Leap provides health food incentives to participating customers for 50% off the farm share or online market sales.
$408,187 spent$369,803 earned by the program15% of program spendingLeap kitchen: the leap kitchen is a shared commercial kitchen and food business incubator. Food businesses are required to operate out of a commercial kitchen. Kitchen members use the leap kitchen to operate their individual food businesses. Leap provides the space and equipment, links to the other support services, and access to leap outlets. Kitchen members pay an hourly fee for use of the space. As of april 1, 2025, leap no longer operates the shared commercial kitchen and food business incubator. Leap transitioned the program to another community partner who continues the program uninterrupted.
$4,233 spent$23,594 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program initiatives include: fixed site farmers markets, mobile market programs, community gardens, and regional food planning
$1,162,510 spent$74,501 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,782,784.
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 2020 to 2021, from $361k to $3.1M (+773%).
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: 2017 37% · 2018 47% · 2019 52% · 2020 55% · 2021 82% · 2022 66% · 2023 61% · 2024 59% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP’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. 5 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 fell $121k → $99k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP’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
LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
94% 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 LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 48% · 2019 51% · 2020 35% · 2021 44% · 2022 50% · 2023 44% — 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
57% of LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
55% of LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k 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
LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP is better cushioned than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$6.6M
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 LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP: 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 LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP?
- LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,788 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA ($246,081). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $867,788 in grants to LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA is the largest funder on record, with $246,081 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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