Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC
WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,771 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($644,140). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Wright-Locke Farm Conservancy Inc does
Mission
The wright-locke farm conservancy builds broad community and seeks to model sustainable practices through active learning, organic agriculture, land stewardship, and an appreciation of our historic new england farm.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sold organic produce at the farmers and flowers market in winchester, at our own farm stand and to local restaurants. Raised lambs for meat, chickens for eggs and goats for pleasure. Operated a pick-your-own raspberry field and raised bees for honey and seedlings for sale to home gardeners. Provided opportunities for local residents to help plant, tend growing fields and harvest.
$501,528 spent$544,728 earned by the program44% of program spendingConducted week-long farm based education classes throughout the summer and some school vacations for children in grades k-2 and 3-5. Held afterschool programs in the early fall and late spring. Held classes for home schoolers. Visited local school and preschools with programs on sustaintable agriculture, healthy eating and raising farm animals. Sponsored adult education classes in food preparation and preservation, knife skills, bee-keeping and foraging, among other topics.
$647,690 spent$703,480 earned by the program56% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,149,218.
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 $1.5M to $1.9M (+23%).
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 0% · 2018 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC’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. 2 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
Erika Gorgenyi
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $58k → $68k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $33k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wright-Locke Land Trust Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY 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
WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 37% · 2019 43% · 2020 85% · 2021 51% · 2022 42% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
69% of WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC'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 $335k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $745k 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
WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26k on record — $20k federal, $7k state.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$7k
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 WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY 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 WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC?
- WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,771 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($644,140). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,080,771 in grants to WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $644,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 13 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