FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

C/O WHY HUNGER 505 EIGHTH AVENUE S, NEW YORK, NY 10018-0000

In care of

% ONIKA ABRAHAM

Principal officer (990 for 2024)

Claudia Navas, 228 Park Ave South 18372, NEW YORK, NY 10003

Signed the 990

Claudia Navas, Operations Director

Phone

(718) 218-4468

Website

farmschoolnyc.org

Return prepared by

Zelin & Associates CPA LLC

Mission

The goal of Farm School NYC is to train the next generation of farmers in New York City and beyond, with a focus on limited resourced and socially disadvantaged individuals and communities, and to increase access to healthy, local food in urban communities by supporting the proliferation of urban agriculture projects. The mission of Farm School NYC is to train local residents in urban agriculture in order to build self-reliant communities and inspire positive local action around food access and social, economic, and racial justice issues.

Program accomplishments

• Urban Agriculture Education Program: Farm School NYC (FSNYC) offers urban agriculture education programming rooted in food justice and social justice. The Citywide Certificate Program is a one-year urban agriculture training program grounded in food justice. This program is rooted in New York City on Lenape land and utilizes a multi-dimensional, hands-on approach that centers BIPOC land traditions and community building. The program begins with a foundation in popular education, botany, and food justice, before immersing in courses that follow the flow of a growing season. This year-long program is the bulk of our recurring programming, offered in-person at partner sites and online. FSNYC also offers additional courses open to the general public.Citywide Certificate Program Re-Visioning (January - December 2024): FSNYC paused Citywide Program courses in 2024 to gather, review, and implement over 10 years of feedback from participant surveys, conversations, and input from facilitators. We identified and updated curricula for key courses which connect the land and people through discussion and collective study and key courses that invite urban growers into technical and community-based growing practices.From months of assessing our capacity, feedback, data, and funding, we moved forward with creating components of a new Urban Agriculture Certificate (UAC) Program, those being Food Justice Foundations (FJF) courses, which focus on food justice, advocacy, and understanding the systems within our food system and Introduction to Land Stewardship (ILS) courses which include urban agriculture technical-training courses focused on soil health, irrigation, propagation, and crop management methods.We identified a third component, a Food & Land Immersion, creating a three-part Certificate Program that supports both a farmer-mentor and apprentice in a pathway for farming, advocacy and/or cooperatives, among other opportunities.Farm School NYC offered additional courses for the general public in 2024, including:Cultivating Connections Part 1 (March 2024): A discussion focused on increasing the accessibility of USDA programs for underserved growers. Participants learned how to connect with agencies like the Natural Resources Conservation Services, local soil and water conservation districts, the NYC Farm Service Agency, and local cooperative extension offices. This program was hosted by Catalyst Collaborative Farm and created in partnership with Black Farmers UnitedNYS, National Association of Conservation Districts, Farm Service Agency (FSA), and Pecan Street.Cultivating Connections Part 2 (April 2024): A follow up to Part 1 where there was a focus on advocacy within federal, state and city related urban agriculture movements, uplifting the collaborators including FSA Executive Director, Catalyst Collaborative Farm and Black Farmers United. Participants will learn about the Farm Bill and how to share their perspectives at different levels of government.Raising Animals (April 2024): This course centers animal husbandry (chickens, rabbits, goats, pigs) on small scale farms, sharing cost and planning considerations to raise animals, and sharing information on livestock related FSA programs.Cultivating Prosperity (May 2024): This course focuses on beginning businesses, introducing FSA programs as potential funding sources, and providing business templates for preparation for any funding streams.Lilac Fest (May 2024): Catalyst Collaborative Farm organized and collaborated with Farm School NYC to host an event where many urban growers and rural partners joined for ceremony with lilac season, outreach and networking, and exposure to resources and partners. FSNYC connected with several NYC-based growers and shared our multitude of projects with people invested in the connection between urban to rural agriculture.Introduction to Beekeeping (June 2024): This course was FSNYCs first official beekeeping course covering topics on care, stewardship, and importance of beehives. We connected attendees to BeeUniversity in Staten Island and FSA resources (ELAP) surrounding beekeeping.Community Food Arts (August 2024): The focus of this course is to teach techniques for food preservation methods including pickling, canning, freezing, drying, fermentation and tincturing. Participants discuss requirements for selling a manufactured food product in New York State including food science, relevant licenses, food safety instruction and labeling information. They also talk about sourcing local produce if theyre not growing their own, and food costing to ensure a profit is made. As a group, students get hands-on to produce a group product.Food Future Summit (December 2024): This event showcases the work of our alumni and partners who are building a better food system. Workshops, community awards, a market, and music accompany attendees. The Summit honors the history and culture of a thriving community of land stewards who protect our food ecosystem while addressing the needs of NYCs most impacted communities. This event also recognizes emerging leaders who are advancing our ancestors' collective goal of building and sustaining a healthy and thriving ecosystem. FSNYC had a table with USDA outreach materials and were able to network with more alumni.Farm School NYC was deeply committed to continuing an important collaboration in 2024 -- the Black Farmer Ecosystem in New York State -- with organizations such as Black Farmer Fund, Black Farmers United-NYS, Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, Corbin Hill Food Project and Soul Fire Farm Institute. Each of the partnering organizations provides unique but complementary services including culturally-rich, climate-smart agricultural training; ethical, equitable land access; patient, blended investment capital; and collective, expansive marketing support.The Ecosystem continued collaborating on Building and Strengthening Social and Economic Sustainability Among NY State Black Farmers, a project partially funded by Northeast SARE Research and Education, a USDA agency. The unprecedented transition in administrative priorities and policy in 2025 disproportionately eliminating funding for BIPOC-centered programming ultimately blocked the release of the Ecosystems final report. This experience was one of many that informed the op-ed: The Heist: Trump's Attempt to Rob Black Farmers and Their Fight Back, jointly-released by the Ecosystem.Farm School NYC also participated in the development and rollout of the inaugural 2023 Empower Fund, a redistributive fund created Black Farmer Redistribution Fund to a unique effort in collaboration with Professor Myles Lennon at Brown University to support activities and projects that strengthen the work of New Yorks emergent Black-led farms, food businesses and food sovereignty efforts and to document lessons learned and best practices that emerge from this effort. In 2024, the Ecosystem redistributed $30,000 to four Black-led farms in New York.Furthermore, Farm School NYC has been a leader in moving forward the Ecosystems generative healing policies. These policies, rooted in transformative justice, will integrate: harm reduction, conflict resolution, repair, and accountability measures at the forefront of the collectives relational work.
  Expenses $570,648 · grants $88,984 · revenue $44,476
• Black Farmer Ecosystem:Farm School NYC was deeply committed to continuing an important collaboration in 2024 -- the Black Farmer Ecosystem in New York State -- with organizations such as Black Farmer Fund, Black Farmers United-NYS, Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, Corbin Hill Food Project and Soul Fire Farm. Each of the partnering organizations provides unique but complementary services including culturally-rich, climate-smart agricultural training; ethical, equitable land access; patient, blended investment capital; and collective, expansive marketing support. The Ecosystem continued collaborating on Building and Strengthening Social and Economic Sustainability Among NY State Black Farmers, a project partially funded by Northeast SARE Research and Education. Farm School NYC also participated in the development and rollout of the inaugural emPower Fund, a redistributive fund created in collaboration with Professor Myles Lennon at Brown University to support activities and projects that strengthen the work of New Yorks emergent Black-led farms, food businesses and food sovereignty efforts and to document lessons learned and best practices that emerge from this effort. In 2024, the Ecosystem redistributed $30,000 to four Black-led farms in New York.For the final year, in 2024, Farm School NYC served as the fiscal sponsor of BlackFarmers United NYS (BFU-NYS), a group of more than 140 Black farmers, educators, and food justice advocates from across the state. BFU-NYS aims to protect the legacy and ensure the future of Black farmers, changing how black communities control access to safe, healthy food and build collective wealth and health in New York State. The fiscal sponsorship ended on December 31, 2024.
  Expenses $483,497 · revenue $42,136

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

84-2867079

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2020

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Education (B90)

Assets (IRS master file)

$627,375

Income (IRS master file)

$1,105,216

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 84-2867079).

Questions about FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC

What is the EIN of FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC?

The employer identification number (EIN) of FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC is 84-2867079.

Is FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2020.

Are donations to FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.

Who is the principal officer of FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Claudia Navas.

Who are the officers and directors of FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 15 people; 7 received compensation from the organization, the highest $110,000 (Kuturie D Rouse, Development Dir.).

How much revenue does FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC have?

On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $1,105,216, expenses of $1,463,857 and total assets of $627,375 at year end.

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