Ohio · Nonprofit
The Learning Tree Farm Inc
The Learning Tree Farm Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,134,370 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($423,377). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $576k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Learning Tree Farm Inc does
Mission
Learning Tree Farms mission is to provide hands-on learning experiences for all children and families in a traditional farm setting.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Learning Tree Farm Inc.-Farming crops, vegetable gardens, animal husbandry, and nature projects for children and families. Also educational experiences on farm history such as the prior farm owners, their lifestyle, and tools used.
$418,569 spent$238,161 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $418,569.
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.
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 $932k to $1.3M (+40%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Heather Ritter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $23k → $172k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Learning Tree Farm 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 Learning Tree Farm Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 Learning Tree Farm Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 73% · 2019 53% · 2020 38% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% — 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
54% of The Learning Tree Farm Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
83% of The Learning Tree Farm Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k 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.
Organizations like The Learning Tree Farm Inc
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 The Learning Tree Farm Inc: 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 The Learning Tree Farm Inc?
- The Learning Tree Farm Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,134,370 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($423,377). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Learning Tree Farm Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,134,370 in grants to The Learning Tree Farm Inc, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Learning Tree Farm Inc?
- THE DAYTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $423,377 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Learning Tree Farm Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 24 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