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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$33MCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$9k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $6,897,151, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,070,766 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $173,615 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $250k+1 grant · $6.9M
$6,869,608
Median grant
1
States reached
$743k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU$6,869,608
FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN$27,543
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FORGOTTEN HARVEST: $7k → 8%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $6.9M → 9%GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $6k → 9%FEEDING AMERICA W MICHIGAN FOOD BNK: $10k → 11%JACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 13%FOOD GATHERERS: $6k → 14%SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $8k → 14%GREAT NORTH FOODS: $9k → 16%FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN: $28k → 16%EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $10k → 21%CMMNTY FNDTN OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $9k → 8%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $6.8M → 9%FEEDING AMERICA W MICHIGAN FOOD BNK: $8k → 11%FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN: $6k → 16%GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SW: $6k → 21%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $6.3M → 9%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $4.7M → 9%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $2.7M → 9%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $1.9M → 9%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $1.5M → 9%MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $1.5M → 9%FOOD BANK COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $204k → 9%FOOD BANK COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $187k → 9%FOOD BANK COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $90k → 9%FOOD BANK COUNCIL OF MICHIAGN: $8k → 9%FOOD BANK COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 5 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$33M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-22%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • MF
    MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32M · revenue +45% · 45% of their budget
  • FB
    Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $496k · revenue +320%
  • MA
    MICHIGAN AG COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • EM
    EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -30%
  • JC
    JACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • GN
    GREAT NORTH FOODS
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
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.

1
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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2
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Metro Food Rescue

The mission of metro food rescue is simple; waste less, feed more. we rescue food that would otherwise be discarded and deliver it to a network of food partners. thereby, helping to feed individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Midland County Food Assistance Network

To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.

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6
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
7
Galveston County Food Bank

Create and maintain a food procurement and distribution network that provides nurishing food by maximizing relationships with major food distributors and producers. galveston county food bank effectively distributes nutritious food to…

Human Services
8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
11
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
12
Worcester County Food Bank Inc

To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Eastern Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation of Greater Rochester. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU: $32,180,238 · OtherMICHIGAN FARM BUREAU+5 more: $537,769 · OtherMICHIGAN AG COUNCIL INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $33,457 · Food & NutritionEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $10,000 · Food & NutritionJACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $6,914 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5,914 · Food & NutritionGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $5,914 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $9,000 · Philanthropy
Other$32,718,007Food & Nutrition$117,199Philanthropy$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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
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.

The Kroger Co Zero Hu…DTE Energy FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…WK Kellogg FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michigan Foundation for Agriculture funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Foundation for Agriculture. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.

    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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