· Public charity
National Farmers Union Foundation
The NATIONAL FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION's (nfuf) mission is to empower people to educate our youth, neighbors, media and policymakers on the social, economic and cooperative contributions of family agriculture.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $424,821 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $445,869 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,048 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $64,809 |
| THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC | $50,830 |
| IOWA FARMERS UNION | $46,332 |
| CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION | $33,592 |
| LEAN & CLEAN LLC | $32,802 |
| KENTUCKY HORTICULTURE COUNCIL | $31,683 |
| MONTANA FARMERS UNION | $28,574 |
| HAWAII FARMERS UNION | $25,000 |
| TILTH ALLIANCE | $17,961 |
| KEEP GROWING DETROIT | $16,181 |
| MISSOURI FARMERS UNION | $16,044 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $14,291 |
| KANSAS FARMERS UNION | $12,675 |
| COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS | $11,782 |
| NEW ENGLAND FARMERS UNION | $8,976 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 33%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +121% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NYNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $675k · revenue +326%
Cornell University7× · 2017–2024 · $441k · revenue +59%- TUTHE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS08× · 2017–2024 · $408k · revenue +234% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- LCLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $27k
- PFPENNSYLVANIA FARMERS UNIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- NFNEBRASKA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.
North dakota farmers union, guided by the principles of cooperation, legislation and education, is an organization committed to the prosperity of family farms, ranches and rural communities.
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
Advance the interests of us corn farmers through research and education.
To promote social welfare by protecting americas family farmers and rural economies from the abusive practices of global agribusiness monopolies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farmers Educational & Co-Op Union of America - Wi Division and the most unlike its peers is Cornell University. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS0 ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS UNION ↗
- Who funds IOWA FARMERS UNION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA FARMERS UNION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORTICULTURE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TILTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION ↗
- Who funds FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA MONTANA ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FARMERS UNION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC GROWERS AND CONSUMERS INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MARBLESEED INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds NOT OUR FARM ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATI ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Farm Aid Inc · Earth Island Institute Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America · UNFI Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Windward Fund · The McKnight Foundation · Tides Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Farmers Union 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.
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.