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American Farm Bureau Federation

The AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION is the voice of agriculture (r).

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.1MYouth Development$130kCrime & Legal$72kPublic Benefit$51kCommunity Improvement$48kEnvironment$37kCivil Rights$18kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $259,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $348,583 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $89,333 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $165k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$126M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE$165,000
AGRI-PULSE COMMUNICATIONS INC$13,500
MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION$12,000
NATIONAL 4-H CONGRESS FOUNDATION$10,000
MINORITIES IN AGRICULTURE NATURAL RESOURCES AND RELATED SCIENCES$10,000
NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION$10,000
AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA$10,000
WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER$6,000
WESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION$6,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$6,000
SOUTH DAKOTA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$5,500
WASHINGTON STATE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION$5,250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AFBFA: $165k → 14%NATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $10k → 12%CENTER FOR FOOD INTEGRITY: $30k → 8%AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $10k → 8%US FARMERS & RANCHERS ALLIANCE: $150k → 11%AGRI-PULSE: $40k → 13%NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS INC: $10k → 14%MINORITIES IN AGRICULTURE NATURAL RESOURCES AND RELATED SCIENCES: $10k → 13%MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%FEEDING AMERICA: $10k → 14%FARMER VETERAN COALITIONANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $10k → 9%AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $165k → 14%US FARMERS & RANCHERS ALLIANCE: $150k → 11%AGRI-PULSE: $34k → 13%MINORITIES IN AGRICULTURE NATURAL RESOURCES AND RELATED SCIENCES: $10k → 13%WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%THE RUSSELL GROUP INC: $13k → 7%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $10k → 9%AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $165k → 14%US FARMERS & RANCHERS ALLIANCE: $50k → 11%AGRI-PULSE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $28k → 13%NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL: $10k → 13%WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $10k → 9%AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $165k → 14%AGRI-PULSE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $14k → 13%NATIONAL 4-H CONGRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $165k → 14%AGRI-PULSE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $13k → 13%NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL: $10k → 13%NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%AFBFA: $165k → 14%AGRI-PULSE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $13k → 13%NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL: $10k → 13%NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $165k → 14%NATIONAL 4-H CONGRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $165k → 14%NATIONAL 4-H CONGRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%THE AGRICULTURAL NUTRIENT POLICY COUNCIL: $10k → 14%EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE: $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
MT
IL
MI
OR
SD
IN
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 16 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
21

Total granted

$2.3M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+15%

Still filing today

81%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
  • NF
    National FFA Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +91%
  • N4
    National 4-H Congress Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +24% · 66% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR FOOD INTEGRITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -37%
  • TR
    The Russell Group Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • EE
    EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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2
Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition
3
Us Farming and Ranching Foundation

MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…

Food & Nutrition
4
National Assn of Farm Broadcasting

Nafb exists to lead, promote, and support growth in agricultural and rural lifestyle broadcasting for the benefit of our members, audience and industry.

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5
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance

Supports independent family farmers & protects a healthy & productive food supply for american consumers. promotes common-sense policies for local, diversified agricultural systems. through advocacy & education, works to make farmers both…

Community Improvement
6
Alliance for Food and Farming Inc

The Alliance for Food and Farming delivers credible information to consumers about the safety of fruits and vegetables.

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7
National Farmers Union Foundation

The national farmers union foundation's (nfuf) mission is to empower people to educate our youth, neighbors, media and policymakers on the social, economic and cooperative contributions of family agriculture.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America

To advocate for the economic and social well-being, and quality of life of family farmers, ranchers, fishermen and consumers and their communities through education, cooperation and legislation. the national farmers union advocates…

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9
Association of American Plant Food Officials

The association encourages and sponsors adoption of uniform and effective fertilizer inspection techniques by all member agencies, throughout the united states, canada and puerto rico. this includes encouraging and sponsoring the most…

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10
United States of America National Comm of the Int'l Dairy Fed Inc

The mission of the united states national committee of the international dairy federation is to represent the us dairy sector worldwide by providing the best global source of scientific expertise and knowledge in support of the development…

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11
International Association of Fairs and Expositions

The primary exempt purpose of the association is to lead in representing and facilitating the evolving interests of agriculture fairs, exhibitions and show associations. the iafe is a trade association representing the agriculture fairs of…

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12
Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

To develop, foster, promote and protect programs for the general welfare, including economic, social, educational and political well-being of farm people of the great state of tennessee.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Farm Bureau; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $1,320,000 · OtherAMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTUREAGRI-PULSE: $139,790 · OtherAGRI-PULSEFARMERS FOR FREE TRADE: $60,000 · Other+20 more: $239,750 · Other+20 moreUS FARMERS AND RANCHERS ALLIANCE: $350,000 · Community ImprovementUS FARMERS AND R…+1 more: $11,500 · Community ImprovementNational FFA Foundation Inc: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational F…National 4-H Congress Foundation: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational 4…FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA (FFA) STATE: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE FAR…CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONGRESSIO…AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $18,500 · Youth DevelopmentAGRICULTUR…Minorities in Agriculture Natural Resources and Related Science: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFIELD TO MARKET: $10,000 · Food & NutritionANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionAlaska Farm Bureau Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FARM BUREAU INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPacific Legal Foundation: $30,000 · Crime & LegalMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Civil RightsWESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $30,000 · Environment
Other$1,759,540Community Improvement$361,500Youth Development$233,500Food & Nutrition$60,000Crime & Legal$30,000Civil Rights$30,000Environment$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $1,320,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetUS FARMERS AND RANCHERS ALLIANCE: $350,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNational FFA Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational 4-H Congress Foundation: $70,000 over 7y, 66% of budgetFARMERS FOR FREE TRADE: $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA (FFA) STATE: $40,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FOOD INTEGRITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMinorities in Agriculture Natural Resources and Related Science: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $18,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD TO MARKET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FERTILIZER INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT REFORM COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF FARMER COOPERATIVES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO FARM BUREAU: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROPLIFE AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Farm Bureau Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO FARM AND LIVESTOCK BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVERMONT FARM BUREAU INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Petroleum In…The Business Roundtab…Chs FoundationEdison Electric Insti…Land O'Lakes Foundati…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Petroleum InstituteDC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Petroleum Institute · The Business Roundtable Inc · Chs Foundation · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Farm Bureau Federation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Farm Bureau Federation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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