Massachusetts · Nonprofit
OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION
OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($800,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $642k
What Open Agriculture Foundation does
Mission
To educate the public about a new agricultural technology developed at the massachusetts institute for technology known as "open agriculture, and to advance certain charitable, educational, and scientific applications of the new method.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Education & outreach:the foundation plans to educate the public about open agriculture-why it is important, what is already being done, what its future prospects are, and how to do it-through a combination of online educational materials, discussion groups, local open agriculture chapters, and in-school education programs.by sharing new developments in the field of open agriculture, encouraging individual open agriculturalists to include their data in its general repository, and making that data available to the public for further study and analysis, the foundation advances science and education.- website/forum/conferences: the foundation will host an educational website, which will make available general information about open agriculture, as well as a discussion forum where people can ask concrete questions and learn more. The foundation will also host periodic conferences or seminars online or in person to bring together those working in the field to learn about the opportunities, challenges, and developments in the field of open agriculture. Conferences and seminars will be open to anyone, perhaps subject to the payment of a reasonable registration fee.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
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 $14k to $649k (+4612%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION’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
OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Openag Corporation · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: 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 OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION?
- OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($800,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,050,000 in grants to OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 2 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