Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,705,224 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($688,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $938k
What Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture does
Mission
Pasa is a community of farmers and supporters, focused on education and evidence-based research, for the purpose of building a more economiclly- just, environmentally-regenerative, and community-focused food system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association coordinates various educational, research, outreach and support programs to encourage and grow the impact of sustainable farming. Employing a vast array of strategies that measure the dimension of sustainability, they care about: the financial viability and ecological health of the farms, as well as the nutrient-density of what they grow.
$7,250,541 spentof which $1,153,810 as grants$7,601,289 earned by the program33% of program spendingThe association also coordinates relief payments to eligible frontline farmworkers and meatpacking workers.
$14,824,831 spentof which $12,831,760 as grants$14,824,831 earned by the program67% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,075,372.
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 $1.5M to $5.6M (+265%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.2M.
9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
41% 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 PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 33% · 2019 65% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% — 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
43% of PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
68% of PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434k 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
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 191 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 191 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $96.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$95.0M
- Department of Commerce$1.3M
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 PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
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 Pennsylvania
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
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Foodroutes Network LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: 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 PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE?
- PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,705,224 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($688,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,705,224 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $688,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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