· Private foundation
Farmers Union Industries Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL FOOD PANTRY | $6,500 |
| UDMO - EMMET COUNTY OUTREACH | $6,500 |
| REDWOOD AREA FOOD SHELF | $6,500 |
| LONG PRAIRIE EMER FOOD SHELF | $6,500 |
| WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOOD S | $3,500 |
| RENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF | $3,500 |
| MANNA FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| BROWERVILLE AREA FOOD SHELF | $3,500 |
| MORRISON COUNTY FOOD SHELF | $2,500 |
| WE CARE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| SAUK CENTRE COMMUNITY CONNECTION | $2,000 |
| REDWOOD FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LONG PRAIRIE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Farmers Union Industries Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -46% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RAREDWOOD AREA COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +68%
- RAREDWOOD AREA FOOD SHELF INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +80%
- RCRENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NDNORTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION ED FOUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MCMT COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $45k
- VEVERNON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -46%
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.
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.
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
Provide food assistance to low income families
Community food pantry
To provide food for people with low income within Faribault County.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Community Food Shelf offering free food to low income area residents
tohelpfightfoodinsecurity.wereviveandgivedonatedfooditemstothoselessfortunate.
County food bank to assist with food needs of limited income families
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 95 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD AREA COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERNON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD AREA FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds WE CARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MORRISON COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Land O'Lakes Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Farmers Union Industries Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farmers Union Industries Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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