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Michigan Foundation for Agriculture

Receive and administer funds to support the educational and charitable activities of michigan farm bureau.

$7.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$6.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,869,608
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,869,608
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$743k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Michigan Foundation for Agriculture funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$6.9M0%
FY20231$6.8M0%
FY20224$6.4M25%
FY20212$4.9M0%
FY20209$2.9M78%
FY20195$1.9M40%
FY20183$1.5M33%
FY20172$1.5Mn/a
100% 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$33MCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$9k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michigan Farm Bureau$32,180,238845%
Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc$496,02750%
Michigan Ag Council Inc$45,000313%
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan$33,45720%
Feeding America West Michigan$18,41420%
Eastern Market Corporation$10,00010%
Jackson Community Food Pantry$10,0001n/a
Great North Foods$9,0001n/a
South Michigan Food Bank$8,41410%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$6,91410%
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All grantees of Michigan Foundation for Agriculture by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michigan Farm Bureau$32,180,238845%
Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc$496,02750%
Michigan Ag Council Inc$45,000313%
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan$33,45720%
Feeding America West Michigan$18,41420%
Eastern Market Corporation$10,00010%
Jackson Community Food Pantry$10,0001n/a
Great North Foods$9,0001n/a
South Michigan Food Bank$8,41410%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$6,91410%
Food Gatherers$5,91410%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$5,91410%
Greater Lansing Food Bank$5,91410%

Where it is load-bearing

Michigan Foundation for Agriculture supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMichigan Farm Bureau: $32,180,238 over 8y, 45% of budgetFood Bank Council of Michigan Inc: $496,027 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Ag Council Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $33,457 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America West Michigan: $18,414 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Market Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Michigan Food Bank: $8,414 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $6,914 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Gatherers: $5,914 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan: $5,914 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Lansing Food Bank: $5,914 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 11.

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.

The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste FoundationOH13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Michigan Foundation for Agriculture

How much does Michigan Foundation for Agriculture give?
Michigan Foundation for Agriculture reported 2 itemized grants totaling $6,897,151, out of $7,070,766 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Michigan Foundation for Agriculture fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%), Community Improvement (0%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are Michigan Foundation for Agriculture's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Michigan Farm Bureau ($32M), Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc ($496k), Michigan Ag Council Inc ($45k).
Does Michigan Foundation for Agriculture fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Foundation for Agriculture?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
Where is Michigan Foundation for Agriculture based?
Michigan Foundation for Agriculture is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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