California · Nonprofit
TERA FARM
TERA FARM (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being EL PAJARO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $409k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $317k
What Tera Farm does
Mission
To empower limited-resource and small-scale farmers by building connections with their local communities and providing access to shared resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Access to shared resources: Farmers are accessing a shared resource - an online store where they can sell produce directly to consumers. Have access to expert guidance and advice via the La Cultiva program, on how best to access various grants and other forms of concessionary capital to support and expand their farm business through land access technical assistance.
$128,000 spent93% of program spendingBuilding connections with their local communities: We run a farm box service so farmers can sell their produce directly to customers in many neighborhoods in San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey County, see list of locations here- https://www.terafarm.org/sites We host farm visits so farmers can directly meet consumers in their communities and consumers can build connections with the food we eat See more https://www.terafarm.org/farmvisits
$10,000 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $138,000.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 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 TERA FARM’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
TERA FARM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 TERA FARM.
“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.
Where its funders are
80% of TERA FARM's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TERA FARM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TERA FARM
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TERA FARM: 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 TERA FARM?
- TERA FARM (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being EL PAJARO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TERA FARM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $175,000 in grants to TERA FARM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TERA FARM?
- EL PAJARO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TERA FARM 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.
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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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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