Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT FARM AND FOREST
VERMONT FARM AND FOREST (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,500 to it, the largest being VERMONT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INC ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $561k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Vermont Farm and Forest does
Mission
At vffs our mission is for the community to embrace learning in an integrated academic and social context while cultivating a long-lasting relationship with each other and the natural world. Educational programming served over 2500 students/year. Offered scholarships and financial aid.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide an integrated academic and social context while cultivating a long-lasting relationship with each other and the natural world. Over 2500 students reached through our farm to school program.
$576,151 spent$459,744 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $576,151.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $101k to $71k (−30%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of VERMONT FARM AND FOREST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Melissa Axelrod
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 VERMONT FARM AND FOREST’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
VERMONT FARM AND FOREST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
“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 VERMONT FARM AND FOREST's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
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
VERMONT FARM AND FOREST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT FARM AND FOREST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $102k on record — $96k federal, $6k state.
- Department of Agriculture$96k
- ChildCare COVID RestartStipend$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 VERMONT FARM AND FOREST
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 VERMONT FARM AND FOREST: 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 VERMONT FARM AND FOREST?
- VERMONT FARM AND FOREST (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,500 to it, the largest being VERMONT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INC ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT FARM AND FOREST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,500 in grants to VERMONT FARM AND FOREST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT FARM AND FOREST?
- VERMONT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT FARM AND FOREST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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