New York · Nonprofit
UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC
UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,500 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($93,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $314k
What Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose: Educational. Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc's mission is to showcase and teach climate-resilient agriculture while increasing food access and access to herbalism for low-income, low-access communities. As a member of USDA's Conservation Stewardship Program and the first Otsego County recipient of New York State's Climate Resilient Farming program, we showcase a diversity of USDA NRCS recommended conservation practices. We run a variety of education and training programs on sustainable agriculture. We also help to increase food access and access to herbalism by donating 100% of our produce to food pantries, mutual aid groups, and herbal clinics, which in 2025 amounted to $109,182.42 worth of produce distributed to 27 partner organizations. By increasing the amount of fresh produce available for low-income, low-access communities, we both improve health and nutrition for communities in need and reduce family food budgets.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc's Beginning Farmer Training Program provided services to 76 people, including 7 participants in our Farm Fellowship, 1 student intern who received internship credits, 6 participants in a guided tour of the food forest, and 51 participants through Day Volunteering and Community Volunteer Days. The Farm Fellowship was a season-long, in-depth educational opportunity with a dual focus on both classroom and hands-on learning, wherein a total of 7 Fellows learned how to efficiently design and implement sustainable farming practices at-scale. Additionally, a guided tour of the food forest was held during 2025, providing an educational opportunity to 7 tour participants. Finally, our Day Volunteering and Community Volunteer Days offered an opportunity for the surrounding community to come help out on the farm, learn new gardening skills, and assist with production and harvesting for our food access and herbal aid work. Volunteers can count their hours towards experiential course credit requirements, community service requirements, and volunteer paid time off programs for corporate employees. The Beginning Farmer Training Program…
$18,461 spent19% of program spendingUnadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc's Food Access Program consists of partnerships with local food pantries across Central New York to provide free nutrient-dense fruits, vegetables, and culinary herbs for their clients. Our nonprofit is located in, and serves communities in, USDA designated low-income, low-access, urban & rural food deserts. Feedback from the food pantry partners that we work with across the region indicates that they are under increased pressure to address rising food insecurity, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic, inflation, and recent SNAP cuts. Pantry partners frequently share with us that there is a lack of fresh produce available to their clients, and that some fresh produce programs that were available as a result of COVID relief funding have since dried up. By increasing the amount of high-quality fresh produce available to their clients, we can both improve nutrition for food insecure communities and reduce their family food budgets, freeing up family funds for other needs. In 2025, the Food Access Program delivered free produce to 15 food pantry partners across Central New York State, donating produce valued at $45,814.40. Our food…
$38,819 spent41% of program spendingUnadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc's Herbal Aid Program grows and delivers free, fresh medicinal herbs to mutual aid groups, free herbal clinics, and community apothecaries to increase herbal health access, particularly for economically disadvantaged and marginalized communities. Our herbal aid partners fill an important gap by providing free herbal health services to low-income and uninsured people who would otherwise fall through the cracks in the U.S. healthcare system. Additionally, distributing free herbal medicine to marginalized communities serves to reclaim plant medicine traditions that have been historically erased by the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. We provide fresh medicinal herbs to our herbal aid partners at no cost, including free delivery within a 90 minute radius of the farm and free shipping via priority mail in insulated coolers to preserve freshness. Our partners then utilize our herb donations to provide free herbal services including health & wellness consultations, internal and external herbal preparations, and supplies for home medicine making, particularly for low-income, BIPOC, unhoused, and immigrant communities. In 2025, we donated…
$37,650 spent40% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,930.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $50k to $314k (+533%).
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: 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Alex Stewart
Board President and Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $90k → $14k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER 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
UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 41% — 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
72% of UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $39k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k 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
UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$6k
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 UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,500 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($93,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $140,500 in grants to UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $93,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 11 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