(CSi) Farm Rescue has received a grant for $445,564 from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

The trust has pledged $190,000 over the next three years in the form of a 2-to-1 matching grant as a challenge for Farm Rescue to broaden its base of support.

Farm Rescue founder and President, Bill Gross states that it’s the largest multi-year funding Farm Rescue has received since its inception, and Farm Rescue will use the grant for strategic and development planning and creating a development officer position.

New donations will be matched 2-to-1, and donations as a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization to Farm Rescue are tax-deductible to the maximum extent allowed by law.

Gross expressed his appreciation to the trust for assisting Farm Rescue.

Farm Rescue is a nonprofit organization that provides free planting, harvesting and haying assistance to farm families who have experienced a major illness, injury or natural disaster.