Connecticut · Nonprofit
MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC
MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,310 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($203,905). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater New Haven Incshared funderslocal
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio match
- Saul & Marion Kleinkramer Foundationportfolio match
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.
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater New Haven Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 124 organizations near you
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saul & Marion Kleinkramer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Three Squares New England Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whole Cities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wholesome Wave Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cabbage Hill Farm Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henry P Kendall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Green Leaf Foundation Nushin Kormi Et Al Trusteesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zoe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catic Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC?
- MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,310 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 $559,310 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing