- Revenue 2024
- $2,518,570
- Expenses 2024
- $2,481,071
Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- K20
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 159 DWIGHT PARK CIR STE 104
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
THE NEW YORK FARM VIABILITY INSTITUTE IS A FARMER-LED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES GRANT FUNDING TO APPLIED RESEARCH AND OUTREACH EDUCATION PROJECTS THAT HELP FARMS INCREASE PROFIT AND PROVIDE MODELS FOR OTHER FARMS.THE INSTITUTE IS DEDICATED TO WORKING WITH FARMS OF DIFFERENT SIZES, SECTORS, PRODUCTION PRACTICES AND LOCATIONS IN NEW YORK STATE. THE INSTITUTE WORKS TO FOSTER A VIBRANT AGRICULTURE BUSINESS SECTOR IN NEW YORK BY SUPPORTING APPLIED RESEARCH, OUTREACH EDUCATION INFORMATION TRANSFER, ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS PLANNING AND MARKET ANALYSIS. THE NEW YORK FARM VIABILITY INSTITUTE PROMOTES PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGES FACING NEW YORK'S FARMS.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE NEW YORK FARM VIABILITY INSTITUTE IS A FARMER-LED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES GRANT FUNDING TO APPLIED RESEARCH AND OUTREACH EDUCATION PROJECTS THAT HELP FARMS INCREASE PROFIT AND PROVIDE MODELS FOR OTHER FARMS.
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TO FOSTER, PROMOTE, AND SUPPORT A VIBRANT AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN NEW YORK BY SUPPORTING APPLIED RESEARCH, EDUCATION, INFORMATION TRANSFER, TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND MARKET ANALYSIS THROUGH GRANTS TO REDUCE PRACTICAL BARRIERS TO THE SUCCESS OF FARMING ENTERPRISES. WITHIN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR, THE ORGANIZATION HAS SUCCESSFULLY INITIATED 29 NEW PROJECTS, COMPLETED 20 PROJECTS, AND RECEIVED 619 NEW APPLICATIONS.
Expenses $2,326,154 · Grants $1,861,403
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Dave RyanDAVE RYAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Tim DresselTIM DRESSEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brian ReevesBRIAN REEVES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tony LapierreTONY LAPIERRE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Karyn Agle SullivanKARYN AGLE SULLIVAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Pauline DrexlerPAULINE DREXLER
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Aaron AllenAARON ALLEN
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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John MartiniJOHN MARTINI
SECRETARY/TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Chelsea Van AckerCHELSEA VAN ACKER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Josh JursJOSH JURS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dan ShirleyDAN SHIRLEY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Aaron RistowAARON RISTOW
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $7,212
- From this org
- $7,212
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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David GrusenmeyerDAVID GRUSENMEYER
FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $139,162
- From this org
- $132,512
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,650
- Hours/week
- 40
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $2,518,570
- Expenses
- $2,481,071
- Contributions
- $2,506,175
- Grants paid
- $1,861,403
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,929,828
- Expenses
- $2,564,796
- Contributions
- $2,907,334
- Grants paid
- $1,966,435
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2022
- Revenue
- $700,090
- Expenses
- $949,970
- Contributions
- $692,542
- Grants paid
- $497,966
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,093,684
- Expenses
- $2,327,866
- Assets (EOY)
- $622,673
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $808,105
- Expenses
- $1,586,931
- Assets (EOY)
- $975,535
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,500,741
- Expenses
- $2,496,467
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,116,180
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,053,409
- Expenses
- $3,051,234
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,581,017
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,170,994
- Expenses
- $3,168,611
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,185,226
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,660,318
- Expenses
- $2,669,134
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,216,038
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,301,891
- Expenses
- $2,299,007
- Assets (EOY)
- $774,651
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,603,043
- Expenses
- $1,607,855
- Assets (EOY)
- $593,581
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,460,277
- Expenses
- $1,490,963
- Assets (EOY)
- $569,794
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,373,324
- Assets (EOY)
- $449,762
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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$1,541,239
2023 ENHANCING FARM PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY THROUGH VARIOUS PROJECTS
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$1,346,491
2024 ENHANCING FARM PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY THROUGH VARIOUS PROJECTS.
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$402,846
2022 ENHANCING FARM PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY THROUGH VARIOUS PROJECTS
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2024 USING UV-C LIGHT TO CONTROL INSECTS AND DISEASE IN VEGETABLES.
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$82,974
2023 PREDICTING SOIL CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY TO ENHANCE VINEYARD MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.
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2023 MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGING TO HELP CONTROL BEET DISEASES AND ESTIMATE CROP YIELD.
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$63,679
2024 FACILITATING HAZELNUT AND CHESTNUT THROUGH IDENTIFICATION OF IMPROVED GENETIC MATERIALS AND BEST MANAGMENT PRACTICES.
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OAK TREE CAPITAL LLC PERSISTENT BIOCONTROL
$54,399
2024 USE OF PERSISTENT NATIVE NEMATODES TO CONTROL INSECT PESTS.
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NEWTRIENT
$50,081
2024 EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF NITROGEN CONSERVATION THROUGH THE N2 APPLIED TECHNOLOGY.
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$48,471
2024 MARKETING NY SPECIALTY GRAINS AND LENTILS IN NYC.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.