California · Nonprofit
VALOR HEALING FARMS
VALOR HEALING FARMS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,425 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Valor Healing Farms does
Mission
Valor Healing Farms has been created to serve the military community including veterans, active duty, caregivers, families and first responders.Through farming internships, therapeutic horticulture, sustainable gardening, animal-assisted therapy and Nature, VHF programs are designed to benefit participants in meaningful and lasting ways. Our mission is to promote mind/body well-being, mental and emotional balance, self-care skills, life skills, career opportunities, stress reduction, recovery from PTSD, and suicide prevention. We use several local farms in Ojai/Ventura County. Our long-term goal is to find a piece of land in the same area to be our permanent home. This space will be dedicated to providing participants with first-hand learning experiences that will show them: 1) how healing and growth can be found through connections to nature, gardening, animals, and healthy, nurturing experiences with other people; and, 2) how they can bring those therapeutic activities into their own
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Animal Assisted TherapyExperience an opportunity participating in our Gaining Ground Equine & Alpaca Program. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Learning is a powerful experiential modality exploring and developing healthy relationships and connection to self and others through the guidance and wisdom of horses along with a licensed therapist. Currently, we offer individual, family and group equine sessions at StandInBalance Ranch in Westlake Village. We are grateful to Dr. Val Coleman, the owner of this amazing ranch and healing herd. No horse experience necessary, all horse activities are on the ground. Horses offer metaphorical learning, mirroring the human body language and feelings of the participant. Sessions are solution oriented in order for the client to discover the best solutions for themselves. In these sessions, the benefits can include learning new coping strategies, enhancing mental health, wellness and life skills through the relationship with the horse.Alpaca herd is no longer available. VHF is working to find a replacement as this activity was proving positive to all involved. Will report success in 2026 reports.
$13,098 spent37% of program spendingGeneral Program CostsAs with any program, administrative costs along with continuing outreach to the community have general costs such as rental expense at $4,500 or Insurance at $2,003. Amazon book markers, calendar journals and printing costs are amoungst the general communications. Legal & professional at $1,030 helps to assure continuing compliance and knowledge of reporting changes for exempt entities.
$8,469 spent24% of program spendingGARDENS AND AGRICULTUREHome:Develop and build home gardens in order to educate, reintegrate and cultivate healthy family relationships and communication within the participants own residence with home grown sustainable food, herbs, flowers and or a meditative space for reflection. All materials and education included.Military Valor Community Gardens:Our goal is to provide access to learning about gardening, healthy food options, sense of purpose and camaraderie working together as a community. We are grateful to CEF/Taft Garden in Ojai for the beautiful private gardening and restorative space. We offer Wellness Workshops and Retreats focusing on medicinal plants, gardening and healthy coping strategies through mindfulness, yoga and nature walks. Also, we are looking forward to developing a small Archery course. Stay tuned for more information.We now have fulfilled our vision of another garden site: we are offering the military families at Catalina Heights in Camarillo the opportunity to garden together as families to explore the wonders of home grown food, camaraderie, laughter, and learning in order to provide healthy food options as well as wellness and therapeutic…
$4,146 spent12% of program spendingTournament Fundraising Event:Golf Tournament continues with volunteer staff and community support. Each "Hole" continued to bost flags and information for the program. Enthusiastically presented and received, we anticipate continuing fruitful events 2026 and beyond.
$9,264 spent26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,977.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $46k to $58k (+25%).
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.
100% of VALOR HEALING FARMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Julie Sardonia
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of VALOR HEALING FARMS’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
VALOR HEALING FARMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 63% · 2023 62% — 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
100% of VALOR HEALING FARMS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
VALOR HEALING FARMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VALOR HEALING FARMS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 VALOR HEALING FARMS: 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 VALOR HEALING FARMS?
- VALOR HEALING FARMS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,425 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALOR HEALING FARMS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $138,425 in grants to VALOR HEALING FARMS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALOR HEALING FARMS?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALOR HEALING FARMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 6 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