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SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC

EIN 47-2549969 PETERSBURG, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,948,280
Expenses 2024
$3,091,000

Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1000
Street
1972 NY HIGHWAY 2

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

TO FURTHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO FURTHER THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, NATURAL BUILDING, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT, SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM, HEALTH, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED GROUPS; TO CONDUCT ON-FARM AND FIELD RESEARCH TO ADVANCE BEST PRACTICES IN FARMING AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY; TO PROVIDE ON-FARM TRAINING ON THE BEST PRACTICES IN FARMING AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY TO FARMERS; TO OFFER OFF-FARM PRESENTATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY; TO PUBLISH CURRICULUM, ARTICLES, AND OTHER WRITTEN AND RECORDED WORK FOR THE ON-FARM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT; TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE BEST PRACTICES FOR AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY.

  • FARM-BASED - SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE, INC. (SFFI) RAISES 15,000 POUNDS OF VEGETABLES, FRUITS, PLANT MEDICINE, AND EGGS INTENSIVELY ON 2 ACRES OF LAND USING LOW-TILL METHODS; PROVIDES AFFORDABLE, DOORSTEP DELIVERY OF ITS OWN FARM FRESH NATURALLY-GROWN VEGETABLES, HERBS, EGGS, AND PRESERVES TO 240+ CSA MEMBERS PLUS 1600+ FARM-TO-TABLE MEALS; TRAINS 205+ NEW FARMERS THROUGH OUR INTENSIVE IMMERSIONS; STRENGTHENS CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ITS LOCAL COMMUNITY AND THE LAND BY PROVIDING DAYLONG FOOD JUSTICE PROGRAMS TO 102+ YOUTH, COMMUNITY FARM DAYS TO 811+ INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND "SOUL FIRE IN THE CITY" LAWN TO GARDEN WORKSHOPS FOR 47+ PEOPLE, WHILE MAINTAINING SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AT >10%.

    Expenses $1,989,099 · Revenue $104,273

  • PUBLIC EDUCATION - THROUGH PUBLIC SPEAKING, TRAINING, AND MEDIA, SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE, INC. AWAKENS THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF 35,424+ LISTENERS AND READERS WHO INTERACT WITH ITS PUBLIC TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND 52 NEW PUBLICATIONS - AS EVIDENCED BY >75% OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS REPORTING THEIR CONCRETE ACTIONS TOWARD FOOD AND LAND JUSTICE AS A RESULT OF WHAT THEY LEARNED. IN ADDITION, SFFI TRAINS 177+ CHANGEMAKERS THROUGH ONLINE PROGRAMS AND MENTORS 10 NEW FARMERS ANNUALLY IN THE BRAIDING SEEDS FELLOWSHIP. SFFI PROVIDES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO 37 PARTICIPANTS, AND PUBLIC SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES TO 47 MEMBERS IN THE SPEAKERS COLLECTIVE. AS MEMBERS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL COALITIONS, INCLUDING HEAL, NBFJA, BUGS, BF ECOSYSTEM, SFFI ADVOCATES FOR A JUST FOOD SYSTEM.

    Expenses $529,463 · Grants $1,090 · Revenue $44,700

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • TAINA DEL VALLE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KAREN WASHINGTON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • GERALD MITCHELL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TAGAN ENGEL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DR CLAUDIA FORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JALAL SABUR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $300
    From this org
    $300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KAVITHA RAO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KEISHA CAMERON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • GERALDINE GUTIERREZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KONDA MASON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LEAH PENNIMAN

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,931
    From this org
    $74,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,981
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHERYL WHILBY

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $92,184
    From this org
    $76,880
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,304
    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
    $2,948,280
    Expenses
    $3,091,000
    Contributions
    $2,555,438
    Grants paid
    $1,090
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,386,444
    Expenses
    $2,205,698
    Contributions
    $3,015,620
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,940,944
    Expenses
    $1,754,018
    Contributions
    $4,605,747
    Grants paid
    $67,500

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,360,515
    Expenses
    $1,202,934
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,344,794

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,785,569
    Expenses
    $1,301,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,136,225

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,445,451
    Expenses
    $741,669
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,625,442

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $693,568
    Expenses
    $493,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $857,473

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $328,608
    Expenses
    $282,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $519,760

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $246,444
    Expenses
    $188,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $252,487

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $65,936
    Expenses
    $20,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,542

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Jonah Vitale-Wolff
Mailing address
1972 NY HIGHWAY 2PETERSBURG NY 12138
Website
www.soulfirefarm.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.