New York · Nonprofit
SWEET FARM FOUNDATION
SWEET FARM FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,283,015 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,153,690). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $548k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $144k
What Sweet Farm Foundation does
Mission
Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. We must first understand how these pieces are connected within our complicated food web before we can tackle climate change at its core. By joining climate education, regenerative agriculture, farm animal rescue, and the sustainable technology that is disrupting agriculture and food production, sweet farm is redefining sanctuary.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sweet farm, established in 2016, initially began as a farm animal sanctuary. Almost immediately, it became clear that our food and climate systems are so deeply intertwined that their stories cannot be told individually. To drive transformative change, our co-founders realized it was essential to consider all aspects of our food system and its ties to energy, waste, and material systems. By 2017, sweet farm had expanded its initiatives to encompass regenerative agriculture and tech & innovation, driving impact from local to global scales. As the first climate sanctuary, our focus remains rooted in fostering climate-consciousness and amplifying impact through holistic, systems-based approaches.sweet farm has experienced the effects of climate change firsthand; evacuating our animals due to wildfires in 2020 and being forced to close our agriculture programs in 2021 due to california's drought. With no end to these climate disasters in sight, in 2021 we made the decision to relocate our farm, animals and programs to the more climate secure region of upstate new york. This move was costly for our organization, but our newly built 50-acre farm is providing a more sustainable home to…
$701,686 spent$37,373 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $701,686.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $99k to $1.2M (+1138%).
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 10% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SWEET FARM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Nathaniel Salpeter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $97k → $416k.
10 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 SWEET FARM FOUNDATION’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
SWEET FARM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SWEET FARM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 74% · 2020 42% · 2021 79% · 2022 63% · 2023 87% — 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
46% of SWEET FARM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
97% of SWEET FARM FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $62k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M 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
SWEET FARM FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SWEET FARM FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SWEET FARM FOUNDATION: 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 SWEET FARM FOUNDATION?
- SWEET FARM FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,283,015 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,153,690). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SWEET FARM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,283,015 in grants to SWEET FARM FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWEET FARM FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,153,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWEET FARM FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 19 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