Vermont · Nonprofit
SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC
SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC (Vermont) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,816,513 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ($1,693,774). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $668k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Susu Community Farm Inc does
Mission
Susu community farm is an afroindigenous stewarded farm in southern vermont. We offer life affirming spaces for black, indigenous, people of color to thrive, including through the donation of food and offering of educational programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule obox of resilience csa - the box of resilience csa provided 35 shares of locally grown, culturally relevant african and disporic produce each week from june to october. These shares reached nearly 100 families from global majority in windham county, vermont and were distributed at no cost. Over 18 weeks, this totaled 630 boxes of food, including fresh produce, medicinal herbs, and kitchen staples like eggs and bread. The program addresses food insecurity while strengthening connections to culturally significant foods and supporting community health and wellness. In alignment with susu's values of community and solidarity, the csa program also sourced food from local farms and producers, ensuring each share was diverse and community-rooted. This approach contributed to a solidarity economy and strengthened relationships with local farmers and food growers.the program was supported by expanded farm infrastructure. A new half-acre of growing space increased production capacity to meet rising demand. Irrigation systems were installed to ensure consistent watering despite fluctuating weather conditions.a central focus was restoring and enriching soil health by bringing…
$442,599 spent$11,710 earned by the program81% of program spendingSee schedule otrauma conscious school of liberation - this program brought community members onto the land for interactive, embodied experiences that support collective healing and growth. It engages trauma as a pathway for identifying and transforming biases that hinder thriving, multiracial communities. Offerings include both long-term and short-term initiatives such as:unbodying white supremacy - a healing and educational program designed to confront and dismantle the impacts of white supremacy on individuals and communities. Through embodied practices, dialogue, and group work, participants explore how internalized bias and systemic opression show up in the body and mind. The program supports personal and collective healing, helping participants unlearn harmful patterns and build more inclusive, equitable, and thriving multiracial communities. It is central to susu's commitments to justice, liberation, and community well-being. Susu sangha yoga - this donation-based program offers accessible, restorative yoga rooted in indigenous animist wisdom and somatic practices. Held twice weekly at the farm, it supports physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being through mindfulness,…
$104,688 spent$7,545 earned by the program19% of program spendingSee schedule ocommunity placemaking - volunteer-powered stewardship: operated a volunteer-driven growing, harvesting and packaging model, including a full community land opening in the spring and collective stewardship throughout the summer, deepening shared tending of the land while reducing operational strain.youth learners: hosted youth learners in the spring, introducing young people to land stewardship, food systems, and healing-centered education.out in the open gatherings: hosted out in the open, creating space for healing, dialogue and cultural expression rooted in black and land-based traditions.african american society connection: welcomed the african american society, strengthening intergenerational and cultural connections to the land. Arc partnership: began building a partnership with arc (african refugee community connection) through a retreat/relationship-building engagement.school-based herbal learning: led an herbal workshop series with brattleboro union high school students, extending land-based learning and care practices into youth settings.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $547,287.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $2.0M to $1.5M (−26%).
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: 2022 3% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Steffen Gillom
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $20k → $345k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC’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
SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 85% · 2023 44% — 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 SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 29% 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
82% of SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $208k on record.
- Rural Health System Improvemnt$113k
- Other Grants$95k
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 SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC?
- SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC (Vermont) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,816,513 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ($1,693,774). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,816,513 in grants to SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC?
- CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,693,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 24 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