Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,506,519 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($1,122,919). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $331k
What Vermont Farm-To-School Inc does
Mission
Vermont farm-to-schools mission is to strengthen local food systems in vermont by promoting positive economic relationships, education and access between schools, farms and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Green mountain farm direct is a regional food distribution system that delivers local food to schools, senior meal sites, and other institutions.
$911,408 spent$753,020 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe green mountain farm to school network provides local food and hands on education that promotes healthy lifestyle choices via taste tests, farm field trips, and in class workshops.
$129,953 spent$107,305 earned by the program12% of program spendingHarvest of the month and other activities supporting the purpose of restoring and strengthening local food systems in the northeast kingdom by promoting economic and educational relationships among schools, farms, and communities.
$38,532 spent3% of program spendingMobile market - the lunchbox mobile farmers market and commercial kitchen that brings locally grown food and food based education to communities in northern vermont. The program strives to improve access to healthy food, provide a reliable outlet for farmers, and to create a gathering place for education and community building activities.
$30,606 spent$22,416 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,110,499.
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. 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 $313k to $408k (+31%).
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: 2017 21% · 2018 19% · 2019 21% · 2020 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 20% · 2024 19% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Catherine Cusack
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $210k → $383k.
4 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL 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
VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 35% · 2019 35% · 2020 30% · 2021 73% · 2022 73% · 2023 56% — broadly stable.
“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
59% of VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
70% of VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $597k 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.
Against its field
VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record — $955k federal, $55k state.
- Department of Agriculture$955k
- Other Grants$36k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$13k
- Contr&3rd Pty-Educ & Training$6k
- Rental - Other$50
- Dues$20
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-TO-SCHOOL 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL 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 VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC?
- VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,506,519 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($1,122,919). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,506,519 in grants to VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC?
- SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,122,919 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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