Connecticut · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,766 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC ($149,087). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $629k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $420k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Northeast Organic Farming Assoc of Connecticut Inc does
Mission
To educate its membership and the people of the state of connecticut as to the benefits of natural, organic, ecological agriculture, including the implications relating to their health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing education pertaining to organic ecological agriculture and land care including sustainable regional food systems and increasing the local food supply.
$570,095 spent100% of program spendingProviding education pertaining to organic ecological agriculture and land care including sustainable regional food systems and increasing the local food supply.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $570,095.
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 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $194k (+288%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 15% · 2020 25% · 2021 20% · 2022 33% · 2023 37% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT 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. 4 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $103k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT 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
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 60% · 2021 74% · 2022 66% · 2023 85% — 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
25% of NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $184k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC has grown faster than half 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 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $586k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$586k
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 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC?
- NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,766 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC ($149,087). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $419,766 in grants to NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT INC?
- PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC is the largest funder on record, with $149,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF CONNECTICUT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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