Washington · Nonprofit
VIVA FARMS
VIVA FARMS (Washington) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,568,855 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,150,200). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $983k
What Viva Farms does
Mission
We empower aspiring and limited-resource farmers by providing bilingual training in holistic organic farming practices, as well as access to land, infrastructure, equipment, marketing, and capital.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In our training programs including workshops, practicum in sustainable agriculture, incubator, and agricultural park, we trained and provided access to land infrastructure, equipment, marketing, and capital to 235 farmers. We made 100 acres of certified organic farmland available to these participants.
$2,376,106 spentof which $923,688 as grants$133,462 earned by the program100% of program spendingOur sales program including wholesale, csa boxes and emergency food boxes reached a gross revenue of $1,229,975 of produce sold through Viva Farms and $32,764 in additional sales of supplies. In addition to these sales, farmers sold $1,830,630 directly through their own markets for a total sales value of $3,060,605 for the year.
$0 spent$261,808 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,376,106.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+35%).
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: 2018 74% · 2019 78% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 51% · 2023 72% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of VIVA FARMS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Michael Frazier
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Miller
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $117k → $69k.
12 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 VIVA 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
VIVA FARMS 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
86% 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 VIVA FARMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 47% · 2019 59% · 2020 51% · 2021 49% · 2022 31% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of VIVA FARMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
75% of VIVA FARMS'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 $642k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
VIVA FARMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding VIVA FARMS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$9.5M
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 VIVA 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 VIVA 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 VIVA FARMS?
- VIVA FARMS (Washington) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,568,855 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,150,200). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VIVA FARMS have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,568,855 in grants to VIVA FARMS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIVA FARMS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIVA FARMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 29 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