Wisconsin · Nonprofit
NOURISH FARMS INC
NOURISH FARMS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,015,064 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($328,940). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $876k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Nourish Farms Inc does
Mission
Nourish empowers the community to make wholesome food choices through education and hands-on experiences that demonstrate how to grow, source, cook and enjoy good food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Farm to community: staff develop and deliver good food education materials for cooking classes, demonstrations, and community dinners on-site. Nourish provides experiential programming for youth, adult, and family cooking classes involving our culinary and farm programs.
$171,396 spent$98,937 earned by the program21% of program spendingFarm to school programming: 3k through 12th grade programming delivering education based on seasonal monthly harvests including experiential activities and a snack component. Good food club (gfc) and early care and education (ece) programs include hands-on garden education, culinary education, nutrition eduction, and core academic topics. Nourish had approximately 16,000 engagements in the 2024 calendar year at schools, youth-serving agencies, and on-site at nourish.nourish together: nourish provided programming to local adults at nourish and at companies in the form of culinary and garden education and works on exposing people to more wholesome food choices during mealtime. Nourish provides opportunities for employees to attend classes with their peers, volunteer with nourish programs, and custom programs to help inspire the employees to consider eating more wholesome food choices, sourcing from local farmers, and being involved in supporting fellow community members about wholesome food choices.educational farm: provides hands-on good food education and demonstration spaces for workshop, farm-to-table tours, and corporate programming. Also provides some food for nourish's…
$663,274 spent$89,430 earned by the program79% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $834,670.
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 2018 to 2019, from $915k to $1.8M (+94%).
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 20% · 2020 14% · 2021 35% · 2022 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of NOURISH FARMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Ryan Laswell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $56k → $190k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 NOURISH FARMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
NOURISH FARMS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 NOURISH FARMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 31% · 2019 26% · 2020 18% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — 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
59% of NOURISH FARMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
100% of NOURISH FARMS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $559k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NOURISH FARMS INC has grown faster than half of the 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding NOURISH FARMS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$150k
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 NOURISH FARMS 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 Wisconsin
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
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Miley Farms Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOURISH FARMS 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 NOURISH FARMS INC?
- NOURISH FARMS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,015,064 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($328,940). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOURISH FARMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,015,064 in grants to NOURISH FARMS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOURISH FARMS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $328,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOURISH FARMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 24 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