Texas · Nonprofit
Small Places
Small Places (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,625,371 to it, the largest being The Brown Foundation Inc ($418,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Small Places does
Mission
To nurture a culture of health in our communities to renew the bond between people place and food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Agritourism Field Trips and Education: The farm is a resource for educating area residents on healthy living. Through weekly field trips farm events and classes the farm is a focal point for the community to learn about food production gardening nutrition cooking healthy eating and a variety of other programs meant to provide the skills and tools for healthier living.
$24,695 spent17% of program spendingFood Distribution: Through various distribution outlets including a farm stand farmers markets community programs and partners the farm will distribute produce with a focus on the surrounding communities. Distributions will be made free of charge and recipients will be advised of suggested donation amounts. Whether a recipient makes or does not make a donation will not affect the recipient's eligibility to receive produce.
$93,448 spentof which $19,365 as grants64% of program spendingCommunity and Private Events: The farm hosts events for the purpose of promoting and advancing community health and educating area residents regarding healthy eating fresh produce and farming. Community events provide free access to the farm's facilities that encourages the community to gather to celebrate the culture of the neighborhood and to participate in the investment in the neighborhood's community.
$26,793 spent18% of program spending| Description:, Expense Amount:, Grants Amount:, Revenue Amount:| Food Production and Farmer Training: Small Places will produce the highest quality fresh and pesticide free produce for our community. Our cultivation of the land will involve the hiring and training of young people interested in the career of farming. Small Places will train its farmers according to an established two-year training curriculum that is designed to prepare each farmer to operate his or her own farm. Small Places will facilitate placement of trainees at area or regional farms to support their continued professional growth., $1618, $0, $0|
$1,618 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,554.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.1M to $2.9M (+170%).
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 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 8% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Small Places’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Thomas Garcia-Prats
Executive Director
Board chair
Jack Andrew Patton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $38k → $658k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Small Places’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
Small Places has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
29% 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 Small Places.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of Small Places's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k 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
Small Places runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Small Places receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $304k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$304k
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 Small Places
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Small Places: 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 Small Places?
- Small Places (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,625,371 to it, the largest being The Brown Foundation Inc ($418,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Small Places have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,625,371 in grants to Small Places, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Small Places?
- The Brown Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $418,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Small Places find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 30 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