How much does Iowa Farm Bureau Federation give?

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation reported 113 itemized grants totaling $3,400,451, out of $3,736,260 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 114 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Iowa Farm Bureau Federation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (40%), Recreation & Sports (29%), Education (21%).

Who are Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Iowa State University Foundation ($3.2M), Iowa High School Athletic Association ($2.0M), Iowa FFA Foundation Inc ($1.5M).

Does Iowa Farm Bureau Federation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Iowa Farm Bureau Federation based?

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation is based in IA.

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation at a glance

· Public charity

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation

To create a vibrant future for agriculture, farm families and their communities.

$3.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

113

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$853k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$4.8MRecreation & Sports$3.5MEducation$2.5MYouth Development$577kCommunity Improvement$214kAnimals$165kPhilanthropy$115kPublic Benefit$75kOther$0

02FY2025 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 113 grants below total $3,400,451, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,736,260 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $335,809 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 · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $142k
$10k–50k88 grants · $1.8M
$50k–250k7 grants · $623k
$250k+1 grant · $853k

$18,146

Median grant

States reached

$1.9B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$853,356
IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION	$160,000
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$118,206
IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION	$102,000
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$80,957
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$59,845
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$51,929
IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC	$50,000
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$48,087
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$42,316
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$40,695
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$38,175
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$34,232
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$33,698
IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION	$31,070

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$15M · 121 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

121 repeat relationships: 113 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121

Total granted

$15M

$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

-6%

Still filing today

100%

87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +1%
IH
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
3× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
IF
IOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +51% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

IS
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $85k
IF
IOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -53%
HP
HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +90%

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.

Idaho Farm Bureau Federation Inc

To promote, improve and stabilze the agricultural industry in which its member are engaged, by securing greater efficiency in the production, distribution and marketing of agricultural products and to correlate and strengthen the county…

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Wabash County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life

—

Marion County Farm BureauInc

To increase net income of farmers and ranchers and to improve the quality of rural life and work for the betterment of agriculture.

—

Iowa Corn Promotion Board

The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.

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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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Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation

To support agriculture through outreach and educational opportunities.

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Bureau County Farm Bureau

To provide information and support to improve financial stability and quality of life for our members.

—

Leon County Farm BureauInc

Leon County works to preserve and promote agriculture and to protect the American Family farming way of life.

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Sangamon County Farm Bureau

Advocating the voice of agriculture through education and grassroots legislation.

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Clinton County Farm Bureau

To educate, represent its members, lead with a clear vision of the future, and assit members to achieve a rewarding lifestyle.

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Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation

Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.

Housing & Shelter

Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau

To work for the solutions of the problems of the farm and rural community by use of organized action. to represent, protect, and advance the social, economic and educational interests of the farmers of santa cruz county and the pajaro…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; the most unlike its peers is Nuffield International Farming Scholarships - Usa Associate Inc. 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

134 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. 134 of the 136 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

134/134

Grantees still filing

102/134

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,670,716Education$5,657,856Food & Nutrition$1,421,383Recreation & Sports$1,349,000Community Improvement$287,000Philanthropy$137,000Crime & Legal$100,000

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.

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.

Iowa Corn Grower's AssociationIA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iowa Corn Grower's Association · Iowa Pork Producers Association · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · The Growmark Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway 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 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report 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, FY20–24

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home