New York · Nonprofit
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri (New York) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,070,004 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,387,325). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $94M
What Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri does
Mission
Stone barns center is a nonprofit farm, education, and research center with a mission to catalyze an ecological food culture. Since 2004, we have been driving innovation in sustainable farming practices and mindful food choices that benefit human health, strengthen communities, and protect the environment. Our hudson valley campus, shared with the restaurant blue hill at stone barns, is a place where farmers, chefs, visitors, diners, educators, researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and artisans come together to push the boundaries of sustainable farming and eating.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The chef in residence program was a one-year program in 2021 as the organization was transitioning out of a shut down due to covid. The chef in residence program celebrated cultural heritage and brought diverse visiting chefs to the blue hill kitchen and stone barns farm, fostering the type of interdisciplinary innovation that drives lasting change in our food culture. The program was designed to combat some of the racial and gender inequities in the kitchen by giving chefs from underrepresented communities a platform at one of the top-rated restaurants in the world and to provide a means of educating others about their food cultures and traditions. The visiting chefs worked with our labs and farmers to help bring the foods of different cultures to the forefront of the labs innovation efforts.the program generated, broadcasted, and documented over 130 classes, workshops and panel conversations with a diverse group of changemakers around the country and the globe. Co-designed and led with blue hill, programs included cooks & farmers meetings, which offered cultural, ecological, and economic insights for stone barns center and blue hill staff and members of our extended community; at the pass, a weekly program that offered a behind-the-scenes look at the culinary and agricultural influences and techniques that shaped each residency menu; elements days, monthly half-day public programs that reflected the thematic thread that represented each residency, including goat, rice,…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Public Programs - Engaging and educating the community on regenerative agriculture and healthy eating. See Schedule O.
$5,015,030 spent$1,675,979 earned by the program50% of program spendingOn-farm laboratory improving and spreading sustainable growing practices. See schedule o.
$2,657,022 spent$373,577 earned by the program27% of program spendingInnovation Labs - Fostering research and innovation that drives food culture change. See Schedule O.
$2,293,962 spent$332,346 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,966,014.
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 2017 to 2018, from $82M to $101M (+23%).
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 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $618k → $1.2M.
23 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
49% 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 Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 30% · 2019 26% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 13% — 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
32% of Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
58% of Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri?
- Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri (New York) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,070,004 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,387,325). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $11,070,004 in grants to Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,387,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 108 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