How much does Farm Aid Inc give?

Farm Aid Inc reported 126 itemized grants totaling $1,380,977, out of $1,453,137 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Farm Aid Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (73%), Environment (8%), Community Improvement (6%).

Who are Farm Aid Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Federation of Southern Cooperatives ($418k), Rural Advancement Foundation Internation ($335k), Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc ($265k).

Does Farm Aid Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Farm Aid Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clif Family Foundation, Patagoniaorg, The Schmidt Family Foundation.

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Massachusetts · Public charity

Farm Aid Inc

Farm aid's mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in america. Farm aid artists and board members willie nelson, john mellencamp, neil young, dave matthews and margo price host an annual festival to support farm aid's year-round work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose food from family…

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 126
Itemized grants FY2024: 96
Organizations funded FY2023: 14%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $35,000
Organizations funded a year: 36 to 96; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 40
Total assets, FY2024: $10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Farm Aid Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	100	$1.4M	19%
FY2023	96	$1.3M	14%
FY2022	86	$1.1M	6%
FY2021	88	$961k	6%
FY2020	36	$808k	39%
FY2019	92	$950k	11%
FY2018	76	$631k	18%
FY2017	81	$698k	n/a

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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$5.8MEnvironment$665kCommunity Improvement$456kCrime & Legal$265kPublic Safety & Disaster$265kEducation$250kHuman Services$97kScience & Tech$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Federation of Southern Cooperatives	$417,836	8	2%
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation	$335,000	8	3%
Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc	$265,000	7	10%
Intertribal Agriculture Council	$232,000	5	2%
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture	$230,500	8	9%
Center for Rural Affairs	$200,500	7	1%
National Save The Family Farm Coalition	$179,250	8	9%
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec	$140,500	8	2%
Community Alliance With Family Farmers	$136,000	8	1%
Land Stewardship Project	$133,850	8	1%

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All grantees of Farm Aid Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Federation of Southern Cooperatives	$417,836	8	2%
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation	$335,000	8	3%
Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc	$265,000	7	10%
Intertribal Agriculture Council	$232,000	5	2%
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture	$230,500	8	9%
Center for Rural Affairs	$200,500	7	1%
National Save The Family Farm Coalition	$179,250	8	9%
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec	$140,500	8	2%
Community Alliance With Family Farmers	$136,000	8	1%
Land Stewardship Project	$133,850	8	1%
Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska	$118,500	3	n/a
Illinois Stewardship Alliance	$99,000	8	4%
Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Inc	$91,000	6	1%
National Farmers Union Foundation	$87,500	2	3%
Dakota Rural Action	$85,746	8	3%
Third Sector New England Inc	$85,000	7	0%
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy	$84,500	7	1%
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement	$84,500	8	1%
Appalachian Center for Economic Networks Inc	$84,000	7	2%
Community Farm Alliance Inc	$83,200	8	2%
Southwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc	$81,000	8	1%
Appalachian Sustainable Development	$81,000	7	1%
Missouri Rural Crisis Center	$80,500	8	1%
Knox Inc	$75,000	6	2%
Foundation for Puerto Rico Inc	$74,500	3	0%
Friends of Family Farmers	$73,300	7	10%
National Young Farmers Coalition Inc	$72,500	8	0%
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Educational and Charitable Foundation Inc	$69,300	1	5%
Kansas Farmers Union Foundation Inc	$68,200	6	87%
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project	$67,500	5	1%
Rural Coalition	$67,000	5	1%
Wisconsin Farmers Union Foundation	$66,000	7	4%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association	$63,500	7	0%
Farmworker Association of Florida Inc	$63,500	7	1%
Western Organization of Resource Councils	$61,000	3	1%
Land for Good Inc	$60,500	7	3%
Dreaming Out Loud Inc	$59,000	8	3%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$58,000	5	0%
Texas Organic Farmers And Gardeners Association	$57,500	3	8%
Family Farm Defenders Incorporated	$57,457	7	14%
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Assoc	$57,000	7	3%
Iowa State University Foundation	$56,692	5	0%
Idaho Organization of Resource Coun	$56,500	7	5%
Northern Plains Resource Council	$56,000	7	1%
Dakota Resource Council	$55,500	7	2%
West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc	$55,500	7	2%
Nebraska Farmers Union Foundation Inc	$55,350	5	13%
Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network	$55,000	7	7%
Marbleseed Inc	$55,000	7	1%
Quivira Coalition Inc	$53,500	7	1%
Holistic Manangement International	$53,500	7	1%
Agriculture and Land Based Training Association	$53,500	7	0%
Operation Spring Plant	$53,500	6	2%
Practical Farmers of Iowa	$53,500	7	0%
Food Group Minnesota Inc The	$53,500	7	0%
Organic Farming Research Foundation	$53,074	7	1%
Council on the Environment Inc	$52,500	7	0%
Powder River Basin Resource Council	$51,500	7	2%
Organic Seed Alliance	$51,500	7	1%
The Land Connection Foundation Inc	$51,500	7	2%
Multiplier	$51,500	7	0%
Rogue Farm Corps	$51,500	7	2%
Rural Education Action Project	$51,500	7	3%
Cultivate Kansas City Inc	$51,000	7	1%
Trustees of Tufts College	$50,000	5	0%
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association	$48,000	3	0%
Sustainable Food Center	$47,500	7	0%
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Inc	$47,500	6	3%
Western Colorado Alliance	$46,500	6	1%
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc	$46,500	6	2%
Waterkeepers Chesapeake Inc	$46,500	6	3%
Rodale Institute	$46,000	6	0%
Red Tomato Inc	$46,000	6	1%
National Center for Appropriate Technology	$45,500	6	0%
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc	$45,500	6	0%
Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc	$45,000	6	0%
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians	$44,115	5	n/a
Local Food Hub Inc	$44,000	6	1%
Northeast Organic Farming Association Inc	$44,000	3	15%
Council for Healthy Food Systems	$43,500	6	19%
Iowa Farmers Union Education Foundation	$43,350	2	61%
Grow Pittsburgh	$43,000	6	1%
Food Works	$41,500	6	15%
The Livestock Institute of Southern New England Inc	$41,500	5	1%
City Seed Inc	$37,500	5	1%
Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers Inc	$37,000	1	1%
Agricultural Justice Project	$35,500	4	8%
Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc	$35,500	5	1%
Northeast Organic Farming Association Ma Chapter Inc	$35,000	3	2%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$33,771	5	n/a
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$29,000	3	0%
Transplanting Traditions Community Farm	$29,000	3	2%
Green Village Initiative Inc	$27,500	4	3%
Resist Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Oregon Rural Action Inc	$23,500	4	6%
Millenium Development Services Corporation	$20,000	2	n/a
Soul Food Project Inc	$20,000	2	3%
Partners IN Food and Farming	$20,000	1	2%
Bloomington Food Policy Council	$20,000	2	n/a
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont	$20,000	1	0%
Center for Third World Organizing	$20,000	1	n/a
Human Agricultural Co-Operative	$20,000	2	n/a
The Veteran's Farm of North Carolina Inc	$19,000	2	3%
First United Methodist Church	$18,000	2	n/a
Kansas Farmers Union Inc	$17,500	2	3%
Georgia Organics Inc	$17,500	2	0%
Wisconsin Tribal Conservation Advisory Council Inc	$17,500	2	2%
California Farmlink	$16,000	3	0%
Farmers Union Foundation Inc	$15,400	2	n/a
Texas Farm Bureau Ag Research & Education Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Inc	$15,000	3	1%
Organization for Competitive Markets	$15,000	3	5%
Early Music in Motion Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Hunger Task Force Inc	$14,500	2	0%
California Certified Organic Farmers Inc	$13,750	1	0%
Iowa State University	$12,835	1	n/a
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center	$12,500	2	0%
Good Work Institute Inc	$11,500	1	0%
Oklahoma Black Historical Research Project Inc	$10,500	2	1%
WNC Communities	$10,000	1	0%
Chester Agricultural Center Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council	$10,000	1	1%
Hartford Food Systems	$10,000	2	n/a
Oregon Tilth Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Nwi Food Council Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Accelerating Agriculture Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Mica Group Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Black Farmer Fund Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture	$10,000	1	1%
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance	$10,000	1	3%
Flanner House of Indianapolis	$10,000	1	0%
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership Inc	$10,000	2	3%
Farmworker Justice Fund Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire	$10,000	1	3%
Organic Farmers Association	$10,000	1	1%
Farm Commons	$10,000	1	2%
Farmers Rising	$10,000	1	n/a
National Organic Coalition Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation	$9,350	1	2%
Arkansas Land & Farm Development Corporation	$9,350	1	2%
Farmers Union Foundation	$9,000	1	1%
Fondy Food Center Inc	$8,000	1	2%
Families Anchored in Total Harmony	$7,500	1	0%
Farmer Veteran Coalition	$7,500	1	0%
Hartford Food System Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Just Food	$6,500	1	4%
Neighborhood Land Power Project	$6,500	1	1%
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Pleiades Network Inc	$6,500	1	3%
Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh	$6,500	1	n/a
Texas Agriforestry Small Farmers & Ranchers	$5,500	1	n/a
The University of North Carolina Press Inc	$5,500	1	0%
Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Luth Ch in America	$5,000	1	n/a
Conservation Law Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Fayette County Community Action Agency Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Oneida Tribe Elderly Services	$5,000	1	n/a
Nourish Bridgeport Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Cooperative Development Institute Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Chicago Horticultural Society	$5,000	1	0%
Louisiana Interchurch Conference Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Vermont Grass Farmers Association	$5,000	1	5%

Farm Aid Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 143 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 143.

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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.

Clif Family FoundationCA76.8× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · UNFI Foundation · Earth Island Institute Inc · Windward Fund · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · National Farmers Union Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The New World Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community 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.

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About Farm Aid Inc

How much does Farm Aid Inc give?: Farm Aid Inc reported 126 itemized grants totaling $1,380,977, out of $1,453,137 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Farm Aid Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (73%), Environment (8%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are Farm Aid Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Federation of Southern Cooperatives ($418k), Rural Advancement Foundation Internation ($335k), Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc ($265k).
Does Farm Aid Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Farm Aid Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clif Family Foundation, Patagoniaorg, The Schmidt Family Foundation.
Where is Farm Aid Inc based?: Farm Aid Inc is based in MA.