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The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc

The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,058 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$469k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$419k
Net assets
$-121196
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc does

Mission

The Verdi Eco School educates children for an entrepreneurial future through an immersive, hands-on learning environment steeped in nature, sustainability, science, and the arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Empowering and educating young people to build healthy communities and develop an entrepreneurial future.

    $428,852 spent$280,855 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $428,852.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($399k) Expenses 100 ($398k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2020 Revenue 133 ($531k) Expenses 141 ($561k) Net assets -448 ($-28308)2021 Revenue 176 ($703k) Expenses 192 ($764k) Net assets -1440 ($-90965)2022 Revenue 128 ($511k) Expenses 171 ($679k) Net assets -195 ($-12324)2023 Revenue 120 ($481k) Expenses 171 ($679k) Net assets -3341 ($-211025)2024 Revenue 122 ($486k) Expenses 108 ($431k) Net assets -1905 ($-120302)2025 Revenue 117 ($469k) Expenses 117 ($467k) Net assets -1919 ($-121196)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (117)Expenses (117)Net assets (-1919)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $76k to $8k (−89%).

$12k
$76k
$8k
$18k
$9k
$38k
$47k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

40% of The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$850
’19
−$31k
’20
−$62k
’21
−$168k
’22
−$199k
’23
$55k
’24
$2k
’25
1.2
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed2222224
Joined·······
No longer listed·······
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $210k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 The Eco-Collective Farm School 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

The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% 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 The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc.

48%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 83% · 2022 83% · 2023 95% — 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

25% of The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.

NY
IN
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.

State$4k
20
21
22
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $4k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc?
The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,058 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $419,058 in grants to The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc?
THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Eco-Collective Farm School Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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