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VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC

VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180,658 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC ($180,658). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$311k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$181k
Net assets
$78k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Virginia Association for Biological Farming Inc does

Mission

The mission is to support, advocate, and educate about sustainable and organic farming/gardening in virginia

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The mission is to support, advocate, and educate about sustainable and organic farming/gardening in virginia

    $307,310 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $307,310.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2018 Revenue 729 ($56k) Expenses 146 ($25k) Net assets 154 ($90k)2019 Revenue 279 ($22k) Expenses 228 ($38k) Net assets 52 ($31k)2020 Revenue -639 ($-49365) Expenses 197 ($33k) Net assets 17 ($10k)2021 Revenue 447 ($35k) Expenses 218 ($37k) Net assets 14 ($8k)2022 Revenue 1331 ($103k) Expenses 158 ($26k) Net assets 144 ($84k)2023 Revenue 3052 ($236k) Expenses 1419 ($239k) Net assets 139 ($82k)2024 Revenue 3234 ($250k) Expenses 1252 ($211k) Net assets 207 ($121k)2025 Revenue 4018 ($311k) Expenses 2105 ($354k) Net assets 132 ($78k)
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Revenue (4018)Expenses (2105)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $84k to $173k (+105%).

$59k
$90k
$31k
$10k
$8k
$84k
$173k
$156k
$86k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 76% · 2024 18% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$32k
’18
−$17k
’19
−$82k
’20
−$2k
’21
$76k
’22
−$3k
’23
$39k
’24
−$43k
’25
0.4
months of
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.

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Listed666666696
Joined·+1+0+0+1+0+5+4+0
No longer listed·10010513
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING 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.

Where its funders are

VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.

PA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)59% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Virginia

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC?
VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $180,658 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC ($180,658). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $180,658 in grants to VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC?
PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC is the largest funder on record, with $180,658 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL FARMING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), 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