California · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,919,810 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,315,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders does
Mission
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders amplifies the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food, agriculture, and fiber systems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing and educating philanthropic and investment funders in support of just and sustainable food, fiber, and agricultural systems.
$1,979,578 spentof which $40,000 as grants$2,318,257 earned by the program89% of program spendingProviding coordination of the chesapeake bay funders network program to build and mobilize a network of grant-makers to listen, share, and develop collaborative strategies that shift social, economic, and political systems toward a healthy, natural environment and just, equitable communities.
$239,572 spent$279,465 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,219,150.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $873k to $1.7M (+99%).
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 8% · 2022 1% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Esperanza Pallana
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 38 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1.6M.
13 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
31% 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 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 34% · 2020 32% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS is better cushioned than half 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 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$15k
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 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: 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 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS?
- SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,919,810 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,315,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $6,919,810 in grants to SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,315,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 69 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