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SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER

SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$91k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$147k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Surprise Farm Retreat Center does

Mission

Promote Interactions between humanities and nature

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. We received a grant by the Prebys Foundation for their Nature and Healing initiative For this grant we conducted a 9 months long farming and nature program introducing disadvantaged youth to farming and heritage activities 8 Satrudays with 2 overnighters serving 24 youths

    $75,000 spentof which $75,000 as grants
    85% of program spending
  2. We collaborated with the San Dieguito River Park Association in providing educational services land and facilities for promoting relationship with the land for their watershed explorer program 24 youths and their mentors participated and spent 2 nights at the nature center 4000

    $2,500 spent
    3% of program spending
  3. Other collaborations include a Womens Indigenous Retreat an Art and Nature Exploration and an AA Healing Retreat while providing land and facilities promoting activities relating to heritage 30 women participated 13940

    $10,835 spent
    12% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,335.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($21k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($144k)2025 Revenue 445 ($91k) Expenses 586 ($88k) Net assets 102 ($147k)
20242025
Revenue (445)Expenses (586)Net assets (102)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $144k to $147k (+2%).

$144k
$147k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’24
$3k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Ute Jamrozy Executive Director

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SURPRISE FARM RETREAT 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.

Where its funders are

100% of SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SURPRISE FARM RETREAT 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER?
SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER.
Who is the largest funder of SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER?
THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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