California · Nonprofit
TERRA CULTURA
TERRA CULTURA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,828 to it, the largest being TEAUMEN & GRACE FUITE FOUNDATION ($31,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $-26966
What Terra Cultura does
Mission
To strengthen community resilience through education and collaboration in agroecology sustainable living and the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Agroecological and Environmental Stewardship Education: Learning skills to grow food and participate in their ecosystem gives them control over an essential part of life. Our on-farm educational programs offers learning opportunities in agroecology environmental stewardship and sustainable building techniques to residents of the surrounding area. These offerings included workshops school field trips and volunteer opportunities. These educational opportunities provided residents with a deeper connection with their environment and the training necessary to practice agroecology and environmental stewardship in their home farm or garden projects in their future.
$9,177 spent26% of program spendingEco-Educational Facilities and Experiences: Interest in alternative more eco-friendly living as well as building with sustainable renewable resources has blossomed in recent years. Terra Cultura has worked to educate visitors about the carbon footprints of the conventional home and the benefits of sustainability.
$19,663 spent55% of program spendingCreative Arts and Sciences Education and Enrichment: Terra Cultura believes that culture and artistic expression are imperative for an ever-improving society. These things should be accessible to everyone not just professionals experts or the more privileged. To accomplish this Terra Cultura offers arts education classes and workshops in the Aromas San Juan Unified School District and Tres Pinos School District 300 Students 1 hour per week as well as on-site to community members of all ages providing a venue to learn in a hands-on environment. Terra Cultura also hosts community events featuring the participants in a residency program with an aim to expand the cultural landscape of the region.
$2,555 spent7% of program spending4 Creative Residences and Facilities: Terra Cultura offers a creatives in residence program giving artists and creatives of all disciplines space to work and live in exchange for teaching one class to the community per week. Many artists and scientists are interested in projects that explore contemporary issues of climate change and the need for more environmentally balanced ways of living.
$822 spent2% of program spending6 Community Supported Agriculture and Community Market Activities: Community members benefit from access to healthy affordable locally and sustainably grown food and educational opportunities promoting sustainable living. They also learn about and have access to the many creative and cultural programs offered at Terra Cultura.
$2,382 spent7% of program spending5 Community Access to Facilities: Terra Cultura believes that access to in person gathering places will revitalize and nourish communities. In order to encourage members of the local community to be thoroughly integrated into the community all arts facilities are available for local residents. Local residents gain access to studio space as well as performance space rehearsal space and event space.
$1,348 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,947.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $143k to $76k (−47%).
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: 2018 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of TERRA CULTURA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Carolyn White
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $8k → $5k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 TERRA CULTURA’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
TERRA CULTURA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 78% · 2019 92% · 2020 66% · 2021 68% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of TERRA CULTURA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $538 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
TERRA CULTURA's revenue fell 79% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding TERRA CULTURA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10k
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 TERRA CULTURA
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.
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 TERRA CULTURA: 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 TERRA CULTURA?
- TERRA CULTURA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,828 to it, the largest being TEAUMEN & GRACE FUITE FOUNDATION ($31,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TERRA CULTURA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $62,828 in grants to TERRA CULTURA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TERRA CULTURA?
- TEAUMEN & GRACE FUITE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TERRA CULTURA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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