Vermont · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT (Vermont) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,955,805 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,554,797). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont does
Mission
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The local food access program works across a broad spectrum of efforts on the consumer side of the food system to expand access and develop the market for local and organic food. This team includes: support for school and other institutional food service pressionals about how to procure and utilize local food; marketing and and tecnnical assistance support for direct marketing farms; coordination of the vermont farmers market association; support and technical assistance direct marketers and farmers markets to accept 3squaresvt/snap benefits, and our related food access programs, farmshare (sliding scale cost sharing for csas) and cropcash/farm stand match(1:1 match for transactions using 3squaresvt benefits at particpating farmers markets/farm stands).
$1,281,162 spentof which $688,680 as grants$6,611 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe farmer service program provides customized farm business planning support to farmers at all stages of business development to develop plans and build the skills needed to meet their business and quality of life goals. We work with farms that are certificed organic, transiioning to organic or that are using organic practices. Services are delivered at the individual farm level and also through cultivation of peer learning opportunities, bringing together cohorts of famers, and offering a wide array of educational and netowrking opportunities.
$2,204,596 spentof which $1,901,002 as grants$4,435 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe vermont organic farmers program certifies farms and processors to the usda regulartion for organic production. Over 730 farms and processors were certified organic in 2023. The program is operated under vermont organic farmers llc (vof) and is accredited under the usda national organic program, which allows producers to continue to be certified by vof and to use the vof certification logo to represent their products as organic.
$1,355,828 spent$1,135,219 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe development and engagement program works to expand the number of people involved in the movement for thriving organic famrs and agriculturally- rooted communities and bring in resources to support this growing body of work. This is accomplished by providing movement building events and opportunities to learn about agriculture and the food system. Events include the annual winter conference and on farm summer events. The advocacy program works on both state and federal levels to advance policy solutions to systemic problems, while centering organic agricultural practices as a key climate solution and farms and farmworkers as frontline workers. The progrma seeks to convene conversations, push public conversations and provide community organizing and education that will build a more resilient and equitable food system.
$668,184 spentof which $7,200 as grants$89,779 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,509,770.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $6.5M (+35%).
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 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 18% · 2023 23% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $284k → $2.1M.
16 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 34% · 2020 49% · 2021 47% · 2022 34% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
62% of NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
66% of NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.7M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.3M
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 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vermont Organic Farmers LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: 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 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT?
- NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT (Vermont) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,955,805 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,554,797). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $7,955,805 in grants to NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,554,797 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 58 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