· Private foundation
Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of FARM CREDIT FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ADVANCEMENT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SUNY COBLESTONE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WVU POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE CTC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERIANARY MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $10,000 |
| DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE6× · 2019–2024 · $113k · revenue +21%- CFCENTER FOR DAIRY EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA4× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +166%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIOone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -14%
- NINUFFIELD INTERNATIONAL FARMINGone grant, 2020 · $20k
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITY BERKS CAMPUSone grant, 2022 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
The virginia ffa association strives to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their full potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Creators. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 119 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DAIRY EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Land O'Lakes Foundation · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Ppl Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc — 14% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wilmington University Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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