Vermont · Nonprofit
RETREAT FARM LTD
RETREAT FARM LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,480,039 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,542,675). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Retreat Farm Ltd does
Mission
Retreat farm seeks to foster a just, healthy, and sustainable community in southern vermont by connecting people to the land and each other through our unique property, programs, and partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community services - retreat farm comprises a vast, free, and accessible public common that served 56,000 unique visitors in 2024. In addition to maintaining public trails and waterways for outdoor recreation, retreat farm hosted community gatherings, outdoor concerts, performances, art installations, and private events in collaboration with local nonprofits and community partners. The farm continued to provide critical community services as the home of the brattleboro boys and girls club after-school program and hosted the river gallery school of art summer camp.
$1,628,944 spentof which $490,754 as grants$83,266 earned by the program61% of program spendingRestoration and conservation - with federal and state support, we completed the restoration of the historic north barn, opening a year-round space for community-advancing events and gatherings, boosting tourism, and strengthening social ties. We also completed the restoration of the wantastegok meadows trail, collaborating with the atowi project to install interpretive signage highlighting the cultural significance of the trail.
$602,880 spent$37,009 earned by the program23% of program spendingFood & agriculture - with congressionally designated funds, we opened a multi-tenant food production space and retreat farm market, supporting over 100 farms and value-added businesses in the regional food system. We continued our partnership with miller farm to support one of the largest organic dairies in vermont with pastureland for their dry cows, making productive use of over 240 acres of agricultural land. We also supported food equity by serving as the fiscal sponsor of the community food project.
$425,703 spent$166,026 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,657,527.
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 $11M to $15M (+35%).
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 2% · 2020 8% · 2021 4% · 2022 47% · 2023 29% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of RETREAT FARM LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% 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
Kristin Sullivan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income fell $3.6M → $2.1M.
11 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 RETREAT FARM LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
RETREAT FARM LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 RETREAT FARM LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 64% · 2020 71% · 2021 62% · 2022 77% · 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
31% of RETREAT FARM LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
92% of RETREAT FARM LTD'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. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
RETREAT FARM LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding RETREAT FARM LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record — $4.6M federal, $774k state.
- Small Business Administration$3.0M
- Department of Commerce$1.4M
- Department of Agriculture$144k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$40k
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- Other Grants$599k
- Grants$159k
- Grants to Municipalities$10k
- Advertising - Other$3k
- ARPA-SLFRF Rev Replacement$2k
- Advertising - Print$522
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 RETREAT FARM LTD
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- South Sector Farm LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RETREAT FARM LTD: 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 RETREAT FARM LTD?
- RETREAT FARM LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,480,039 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,542,675). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RETREAT FARM LTD have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $14,480,039 in grants to RETREAT FARM LTD, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RETREAT FARM LTD?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,542,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RETREAT FARM LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 47 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