Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER
SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,322,485 to it, the largest being SCHUMANN ROBERT F FDN-MAIN ($435,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Snipes Farm and Education Center does
Mission
To model and teach sustainable farming while building community and re- connecting people to the land.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sfec education provides school based education programs, including nutrition education through cooking and school gardening, farm field trips, summer camp with scholarships for low income children and classes for adults in gardening and food preserving. The center works with the bucks county intermediate unit, other public schools, and private academies to deliver programs for students with special needs, including behavioral, emotional, learning differences and children on the autism spectrum. Additionally, sfec hosts bonfires, birthday parties, and fall harvest weekends and other public events, designed to introduce community members to the realities of life and work on a farm.
$460,065 spentof which $61,170 as grants$297,587 earned by the program67% of program spendingSfec farming includes a community supported agriculture (csa) membership program, and partnerships with organizations in new jersey and pennsylvania working with people in need, and donates produce to pantries and food banks. Sfec is a vendor at local farmers markets, including markets designed for low income residents of bucks county, pa and trenton, nj. Grants from partner organizations keep prices affordable for senior citizens and others. Sfec is usda and pco certified organic and works to improve soil health, following best practices in sustainable agriculture for ecological and human health. The center strives to educate the public about our farming practices.
$228,898 spent$160,017 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $688,963.
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 2021 to 2022, from $744k to $1.3M (+74%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 7% · 2019 2% · 2020 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% · 2024 12% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Rachel Griffin-Snipes
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $36k → $176k.
8 of 29 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 SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER’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
SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 34% · 2023 37% — 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
77% of SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
55% of SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$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 SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER: 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 SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER?
- SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,322,485 to it, the largest being SCHUMANN ROBERT F FDN-MAIN ($435,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,322,485 in grants to SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER?
- SCHUMANN ROBERT F FDN-MAIN is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER 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.
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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 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing