North Carolina · Nonprofit
Organic Growers School Inc
Organic Growers School Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,719,860 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($383,760). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $551k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $105k
What Organic Growers School Inc does
Mission
Organic Growers School inspires, educates, and supports people to farm, garden, and live organically.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Spring Conference: For over 30 years OGS has hosted an annual Spring Conference which is one of the largest grassroots gatherings of this kind in the Southeastern US with over 1000 people participating over a three day period. The conference inspires and educates people to farm garden and live organically by providing affordable practical and hands-on education. Farmer Programs: OGS offers a complete farm education curriculum from aspiring to new to experienced farmers through the following programs: Farm Dreams is for those in the exploratory stages of starting their own farm. This entry-level workshop provides practical common sense information on sustainable farming and how to move forward. Farm Beginnings is training for the next generation of farmers in the many skills required to start and expand a successful farm business: clear goals production experience financial and marketing know-how and more. Farm Beginnings will help build these skills through a one year of farmer-led training mentoring and networking. CRAFT Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training is a peer-to-peer farmer-led effort to bring established farmers farm apprentices and aspiring farmers…
$568,644 spentof which $128,972 as grants$77,589 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $568,644.
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 $453k to $135k (−70%).
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: 2019 45% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 35% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Organic Growers School Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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
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
Cameron Farlow
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $290k → $217k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Organic Growers School 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
Organic Growers School Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 Organic Growers School Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 67% · 2019 25% · 2020 29% · 2021 40% · 2022 56% · 2023 49% — 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
13% of Organic Growers School Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
72% of Organic Growers School Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k 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
Organic Growers School Inc's revenue grew 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Organic Growers School Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $690k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$656k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$34k
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 Organic Growers School 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Organic Growers School 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 Organic Growers School Inc?
- Organic Growers School Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,719,860 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($383,760). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Organic Growers School Inc have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,719,860 in grants to Organic Growers School Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Organic Growers School Inc?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $383,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Organic Growers School Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 22 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