Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS
YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,660 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR J AND LEE R GLATFELTER FOUNDATION ($85,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $686k
- Net assets
- $283k
What York Fresh Food Farms does
Mission
Cultivating community health through agriculture, access , and affordability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A. Urban farm operation. York Fresh Food Farms was founded to reduce hunger in york county, pa, by growing safe, healthy food for people in need, and its sustainable, year-round farming program grew 26,625 pounds of vegetables, herbs and berries in 2024 on its 4+ acre urban farm at 2 locations in york, pa. York Fresh Food Farms follows advanced commercial growing methods and uses intense growing techniques in our 2 greenhouses, 4 high tunnels and for the field crops, including: drip irrigation, fertigation, integrated pest management, trellising, field-bed turnaround and succession planting. Farming is overseen by the farm manager with 3-4 p/t seasonal farm hands and volunteers who plant, raise, tend, and harvest the greenhouse, high tunnel and field crops from early april and until thanksgiving. Winter-hardy crops are grown in 4 high tunnels from november to april. Y3f plays a critical role in the york county food system and increasing dietary choices by growing approximately 50 different varieties of vegetables including culturally specific crops for black and hispanic customers. Working with other york county, pa, farms and orchards, York Fresh Food Farms brings locally grown…
$226,472 spent70% of program spendingB. Mobile produce market. Since 2018, York Fresh Food Farms has sold the vegetables, herbs and berries it grows, through its now year-round (reduced schedule in fall/winter) mobile produce market, a farmstand-on-wheels. With 2 market vehicles (a van and a shuttle bus), the mobile produce market sets up in 14+ different underserved, food desert york, pa, neighborhoods each week to sell farm-grown produce at low and affordable prices. In 2024, 43% of the mobile produce market's sales were paid for with snap or other food assistance programs for low-income individuals, showing that York Fresh Food Farms and its produce sales are reaching low-income families. The mobile produce market hopes to improve its market stops locations in 2024 by expanding into additional low-income neighborhoods and exploring new sales opportunities.
$54,491 spent$83,475 earned by the program17% of program spendingC. Farm to hospital projectYork Fresh Food Farms has collaborated with the upmc memorial hospital in west manchester township to create a year-round working farm located on the hospital campus. In 2024, the location completed its first full year of farming. The project promotes the critical role food plays in overall health and demonstrates both york fresh food farm's and upmc memorial's commitment to community health and educational initiatives. The produce is used in patient and retail menus at both the york and hanover hospital locations. The project includes three 2500 square foot high tunnels for growing a variety of vegetables and herbs.
$41,409 spent13% of program spendingD. Farm shares program.York Fresh Food Farms' farmshares is an affordable weekly box of fresh produce (available 52 weeks a year), delivered free within the york, pa, city limits (non-city customers pick up their farmshares at 150 willis road). Customers sign-up, select their weekly purchases and pay online.e. Community gardens project. York Fresh Food Farms' community gardens project has created community gardens at 4 york, pa, locations. The community gardens are overseen by project manager and artist, annalisa gojmerac, and maintained by community volunteers. The community gardens project grows mostly vegetables and native plans and donates the harvested vegetables to neighbors, volunteers and local food pantries.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $322,372.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $171k to $321k (+87%).
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 4% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of YORK FRESH FOOD 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. 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.
Board chair
Jim Noel
Director & board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $36k → $147k.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 funders by total. 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
YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 40% · 2019 59% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% — 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
45% of YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS is better cushioned than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$15k
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 YORK FRESH FOOD 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 YORK FRESH FOOD 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 YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS?
- YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,660 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR J AND LEE R GLATFELTER FOUNDATION ($85,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $685,660 in grants to YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS?
- THE ARTHUR J AND LEE R GLATFELTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YORK FRESH FOOD FARMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 25 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