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Farmhouse Foundation

The FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION is a 501 c 3 public educational foundation formed in 1965 as a trust, to support the fraternity and its high standards of scholarship, character, personal growth, unity and

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$940k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$14MEducation$3.2MMembership Benefit$3.0MRecreation & Sports$482kYouth Development$27kHealth$21kAnimals$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $2,244,452 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,571,595 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $327,143 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $448k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$104,681
Median grant
11
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS ASSOCIA$940,388
FARMHOUSE FRATER$496,322
MINNESOTA ASSOCI$254,228
IOWA ST ASSOCIAT$170,243
NC ST ASSOCIATIO$121,400
KANSAS ST ASSOCI$104,681
WASHINGTON ST AS$52,000
OHIO ST ASSOCIAT$44,472
OKLAHOMA ST ASSO$21,645
ARKANSAS ASSOCIA$20,000
NEBRASKA ASSOCIA$19,073
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION: $1.8M → 13%IDAHO ASSOCIATION: $323k → 16%MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION: $1.3M → 14%OKLAHOMA STATE ASSOCIATION: $748k → 19%ARKANSAS ASSOCIATION: $154k → 14%IOWA STATE ASSOCIATION: $591k → 17%KANSAS STATE ASSOCIATION: $1.1M → 20%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $530k → 8%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $560k → 15%MISSOURI ASSOCIATION: $965k → 17%PURDUE ASSOCIATION: $210k → 19%OHIO STATE ASSOCIATION: $106k → 15%ILLINOIS ASSOCIA: $940k → 19%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE ASSOCIATION: $149k → 13%NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION: $1.3M → 13%MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION: $723k → 14%OKLAHOMA STATE ASSOCIATION: $497k → 19%ARKANSAS ASSOCIATION: $90k → 14%IOWA STATE ASSOCIATION: $211k → 17%KANSAS STATE ASSOCIATION: $426k → 20%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $244k → 8%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $501k → 15%MISSOURI ASSOCIATION: $321k → 17%PURDUE ASSOCIATION: $136k → 19%ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION: $207k → 19%NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION: $310k → 13%MINNESOTA ASSOCI: $254k → 14%OKLAHOMA STATE ASSOCIATION: $307k → 19%IOWA STATE ASSOCIATION: $178k → 17%KANSAS STATE ASSOCIATION: $190k → 20%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $203k → 8%FARMHOUSE FRATER: $496k → 15%PURDUE ASSOCIATION: $93k → 19%NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION: $78k → 13%MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION: $164k → 14%OKLAHOMA STATE ASSOCIATION: $157k → 19%IOWA ST ASSOCIAT: $170k → 17%KANSAS STATE ASSOCIATION: $155k → 20%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $179k → 8%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $444k → 15%IOWA STATE ASSOCIATION: $94k → 17%KANSAS STATE ASSOCIATION: $113k → 20%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY: $343k → 15%IOWA STATE ASSOCIATION: $94k → 17%KANSAS ST ASSOCI: $105k → 20%IOWA STATE ASSOCIATION: $75k → 17%KANSAS STATE ASSOCIATION: $92k → 20%KANSAS STATE ASSOCIATION: $86k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 21 repeat orgs$830k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$20M
$524k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-24%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationMembership BenefitYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • FI
    FarmHouse International Fraternity Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +122% · 32% of their budget
  • KF
    KANSAS FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +112% · 88% of their budget
  • MF
    MINNESOTA FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +47% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • IF
    IDAHO FARMHOUSE CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $323k · revenue -57% · 93% of their budget
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $149k · revenue -7%
  • AG
    ABERDEEN GEM TRAIL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -43% · 57% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

1
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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2
Delta Upsilon Alumni Corp Kansas State Chapter

Provide living quarters in close proximity of Kansas State University campus for up to 84 student members of national organization (1 fraternity house)

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3
South Dakota Theta House Corporation

Provide housing for college fraternity

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4
Missouri Alpha of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternal Corporation

To provide and manage the fraternity house for university students.

Education
5
Alpha Gamma Rho Alumni Assn of Alpha Zeta Chapter

Provide and maintain fraternity house for the benefit of undergraduate members Capacity aprox. 53. Encourage students in literary subjects, more specifically agriculture and allied sciences. Provide organizational structure for alumni…

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6
Alumni Association of the Nu Delta Chapter of Phi Mu Delta Fraternity

Provide room and board to undergraduate members attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston area schools

Education
7
Animal House Ferals
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8
Wyoming Alpha Sae Fraternity House Corporation

Operate Housing for the Wyoming Alpha Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity

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9
Gamma Phi ChapterPhi Gamma Delta Alumni Association

Provide student housing for members of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity at the Pennsylvania State Univeristy

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10
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity /Fiji House Corp University of Akron

Provide Fraternity Housing.

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11
Alpha Nu Beta Theta Pi House Association

The Alpha Nu Beta Theta Pi House Association provides housing to the Alpha Nu Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at the University of Kansas and its members. The Association owns and maintains a historically significant and culturally…

Education
12
Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity Epsilon Chapter

Operations of a Fraternity for young men on the campus of North Dakota State University. Fraternity operates the house where the young men live and meet while attending college

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farmhouse Fraternity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aberdeen Gem Trail Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%59%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr13%97%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,536

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
11/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FarmHouse International Fraternity Inc — $3,500,816 · OtherFarmHouse International Fraternity IncNEBRASKA FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $2,296,170 · OtherNEBRASKA FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATIONMINNESOTA FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $2,199,778 · OtherMINNESOTA FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATIONOKLAHOMA STATE ASSOCIATION — $1,512,523 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE ASSOCIATIONFARMHOUSE FRATERNITY UNIVERSITY OF NEBRA — $1,295,562 · OtherFARMHOUSE FRATERNITY UNIVERSITY OF NEBRAMissouri Farmhouse Association Inc — $1,286,203 · OtherMissouri Farmhouse Association IncIOWA FARM HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $784,989 · OtherIOWA STATE ASSOCIATION — $754,072 · Other+14 more — $2,491,488 · Other+14 moreKANSAS FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $2,324,456 · Recreation & SportsKANSAS FARMHO…+1 more — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFARMHOUSE FRATERNITY ILLINOIS FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,242,160 · EducationFARMHOUSE…PURDUE FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $498,483 · EducationPURDUE FA…MICHIGAN FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION INC FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY INC — $174,723 · Membership BenefitBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPassion 4 Paws Company — $10,000 · Animals
Other$16,121,601Recreation & Sports$2,344,456Education$1,740,643Membership Benefit$174,723Youth Development$15,000Animals$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFarmHouse International Fraternity Inc — $3,500,816 over 9y, 32% of budgetKANSAS FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $2,324,456 over 9y, 88% of budgetNEBRASKA FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $2,296,170 over 6y, 49% of budgetMINNESOTA FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $2,199,778 over 4y, 43% of budgetFARMHOUSE FRATERNITY UNIVERSITY OF NEBRA — $1,295,562 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMissouri Farmhouse Association Inc — $1,286,203 over 2y, 51% of budgetFARMHOUSE FRATERNITY ILLINOIS FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,242,160 over 6y, 44% of budgetIOWA FARM HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $784,989 over 6y, 40% of budgetPURDUE FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $498,483 over 4y, 45% of budgetOklahoma FarmHouse Corporation — $338,645 over 3y, 34% of budgetIDAHO FARMHOUSE CLUB INC — $323,324 over 1y, 93% of budgetATZFarmHouse Alumni Association — $259,805 over 8y, 79% of budgetFARMHOUSE FRATERNITY AU CHAPTER — $149,110 over 3y, 13% of budgetFarmHouse Fraternity ND Alumni Association — $123,341 over 5y, 60% of budgetFARM HOUSE FRATERNITY INC — $87,900 over 4y, 52% of budgetWSU FARMHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $52,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FRATERNAL EXCELLENCE INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetABERDEEN GEM TRAIL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetFARM HOUSE FRATERNITY INC — $19,242 over 2y, 14% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPassion 4 Paws Company — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Farmhouse Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Farmhouse Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Farmhouse Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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