Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION
THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being LARRY LABRIOLA FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The Sleepy Cat Farm Foundation does
Program
The primary charitable activity of the foundation is for the exhibition of country house era stroll gardens in its native new england setting to the general public for education, research and observation purposes. The target visitor audience is garden groups and researchers, independent garden experts, university students from landscape architectural schools, and classes from local primary and secondary schools. The foundation focuses on viewing and educating the public about its gardens and gardening in general, focusing its efforts in the education, promotion, research, creation and conservation of gardens. Educational opportunities include growing native wildflowers, plant propagation, garden photography, pruning and maintenance best practices, plant identification and classification, greenhouse management, home vegetable gardening, fruit tree culture and garden design principals. By engaging in its activity, the foundation seeks to encourage and stimulate interest in gardens.
$964,149 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $499k to $1.8M (+252%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION?
- THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being LARRY LABRIOLA FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION?
- LARRY LABRIOLA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SLEEPY CAT FARM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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