Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC
PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $-93128
What Pv Grows Investment Fund Inc does
Mission
The pvgrows investment fund, inc. (pvgif) provides financing and technical assistance to local farm and food businesses through community investments. Pvgif offers an investment vehicle for individuals, institutions, and foundations. In 2015, the pioneer valley grows investment fund, inc. ("pvgif") was established as a separate entity (supporting organization to the fccdc) to be administered by the fccdc. Pvgif uses community investments to provide financing to local farm and food businesses. Pvgif offers an investment vehicle for individuals, institutions, and foundations to invest in building a healthier food system. Its mission is to strengthen and grow the local food economy more vibrant farm and food businesses, more local jobs, and more access to healthy food in the connecticut river valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The pvgrows investment fund, inc. (pvgif) provides financing and technical assistance to local farm and food businesses through community investment. Since its inception in 2015, the fund has lent to more than 110 farm and food businesses in massachusetts, providing critical funds so that farm and food businesses can grow their businesses and increase their income, hire more workers at livable wages, expand food access throughout the region, provide vital infrastructure for other farm enterprises, and survive extreme weather emergencies.
$25,000 spent$25,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,000.
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 $1.0M to $1.7M (+69%).
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.
0% of PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND 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.
Where its funders are
PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Franklin County Community Development Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC?
- PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,500 in grants to PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC.
- Who is the largest funder of PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC?
- LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PV GROWS INVESTMENT FUND INC 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.
Play a game about who funds Pv Grows Investment →
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 1 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