Connecticut · Nonprofit
MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC
MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,310 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($203,905). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $845k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $562k
- Net assets
- $329k
What Massaro Community Farm Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide free food to low income persons, provide education in nutrition and organic agriculture, and preserve a working farm and historical buildings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community supported agriculturecommunity supported agriculture (csa), is a partnership between farmers and members of the community. When community members purchase a csa subscription, they connect with and support the farm by paying in advance for produce they will receive throughout the season. This advance payment helps to cover operating expenses and capital investment of the farm each year, allowing the farm to focus on its operation and plan for the season. In 2025, 471 csa subscriptions were fulfilled and the total harvest was 68,417 pounds, of which 16,215 pounds were donated to hunger relief.
$372,163 spent$334,962 earned by the program60% of program spendingPreservation and restorationthrough an operating lease with the town of woodbridge, massaro community farm leases approximately a 58 acre century old farm and historical buildings. Massaro community farm works to preserve and restore the buildings, improve the infrastructure, maintain and improve the land to enable the property to operate as a working farm. For the period beginning from inception in 2008 through december 31, 2025, massaro community farm has expended more than $693,000 for land clearing; irrigation and well repair and installation; barn, farm house and greenhouse improvements and restoration.
$77,900 spent13% of program spendingEducational programsmassaro community farm runs educational programs for children and adults in sustainable agriculture and nutrition. In 2025, the farm continued its multitude of offerings for all ages, including a full-day summer camp, and hosting a number of adult groups for days of service. In addition, the farm partnered with emmett o'brien technical high school to complete construction of a pavilion in our learning garden, which will serve as the center point of our education and community programs. In total, we offered 140 on-farm programs and approximately 4,000 youth and adults visited the farm for a program at the farm over the course of the year.
$115,979 spent$71,080 earned by the program19% of program spendingHunger relief/free food production and distributionmassaro community farm donates fresh organically grown food to low-income persons through food banks, homeless shelters and other social service agencies in the lower naugatuck valley and greater new haven. We continued to donate at least 10% of our harvest to health, human service and hunger relief agencies, offered sliding scale pricing tiers for our csa subscriptions, and accept ebt as payment for produce and other farm goods.
$56,745 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $622,787.
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 2019 to 2020, from $169k to $305k (+80%).
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 14% · 2018 2% · 2019 15% · 2020 6% · 2021 23% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 13% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $15k → $142k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC’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
MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 78% · 2021 91% · 2022 55% · 2023 35% — 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
56% of MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
89% of MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $358k on record — $205k federal, $153k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$185k
- Department of Agriculture$20k
- State Aid Grants$149k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$4k
- Management Consultant Services$300
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 MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC?
- MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,310 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($203,905). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $562,310 in grants to MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $203,905 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 20 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