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THE FARM SCHOOL

THE FARM SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,829 to it, the largest being WHYHUNGER INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$376k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$206k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What The Farm School does

Mission

To provide primary and secondary educational services to the community and certain home school children through the school and life-long learning to the community.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide elementary and secondary education to the community.

    $469,061 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. More than warmth is an educational project for students of all ages to learn about world cultures. It fosters understanding, knowledge, and compassion among cultures through nonviolent,nonpolitical, and nonreligious means.

    $284 spent$500 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $469,345.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($238k) Expenses 100 ($224k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2018 Revenue 125 ($299k) Expenses 110 ($247k) Net assets 138 ($122k)2019 Revenue 131 ($313k) Expenses 129 ($290k) Net assets 165 ($145k)2021 Revenue 194 ($462k) Expenses 142 ($318k) Net assets 329 ($289k)2022 Revenue 162 ($386k) Expenses 163 ($365k) Net assets 348 ($306k)2023 Revenue 168 ($401k) Expenses 167 ($375k) Net assets 373 ($328k)2024 Revenue 170 ($406k) Expenses 195 ($435k) Net assets 339 ($299k)2025 Revenue 182 ($434k) Expenses 178 ($397k) Net assets 381 ($335k)2026 Revenue 158 ($376k) Expenses 226 ($506k) Net assets 234 ($206k)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (226)Net assets (234)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $339k to $209k (−38%).

$95k
$127k
$152k
$292k
$309k
$331k
$303k
$339k
$209k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$52k
’18
$23k
’19
$144k
’21
$21k
’22
$27k
’23
−$29k
’24
$37k
’25
−$129k
’26
4.6
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.

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Listed343888777
Joined·+3+2·+4+4+5+1+4
No longer listed·23·44614
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $401 → $10k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
Whyhunger Incunclassified
$10k
funders
1
1
1
2
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 FARM SCHOOL’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 FARM SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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

99% 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 FARM SCHOOL.

85%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.

Where its funders are

THE FARM SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.

NY
CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE FARM SCHOOL

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE FARM SCHOOL?
THE FARM SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,829 to it, the largest being WHYHUNGER INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE FARM SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,829 in grants to THE FARM SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FARM SCHOOL?
WHYHUNGER INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FARM SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing