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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.

$446k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$65k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Food & Nutrition$4.0MEducation$110kCommunity Improvement$32k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

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
$17,961
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

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.

area typical 11%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC: $147k → 33%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $75k → 33%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC: $51k → 33%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY: $45k → 33%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY: $33k → 33%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $30k → 33%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY: $15k → 33%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC: $14k → 33%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

WA
MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
NM
KS
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
FL

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 32 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
6

Total granted

$4.0M
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+9%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • NY
    NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $675k · revenue +326%
  • Cornell University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $441k · revenue +59%
  • TU
    THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS0
    8× · 2017–2024 · $408k · revenue +234% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • PF
    PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS UNION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • NF
    NEBRASKA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION INC
    one 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.

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
Farming for the Future Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
3
Organic Farmers Association

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Us Farming and Ranching Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation

The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.

6
August West Foundation for Sustainable Ag
Food & Nutrition
7
Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America - North Dakota Division

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.

8
Us Farmers and Ranchers Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
9
Mississippi Farm Bureau Young Farmer Scholarship Foundation
10
National Corn Growers Association Foundation

Advance the interests of us corn farmers through research and education.

Food & Nutrition
11
Rising Farmworker Dream Fund
Recreation & Sports
12
Farm Action Fund

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,526

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

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 20172025, 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $341,775 · OtherCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRSNEW ENGLAND FARMERS UNION — $155,710 · OtherNEW ENGLAND FARMERS UNIONCAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION — $148,244 · OtherCAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATIONPENNSYLVANIA FARMERS UNION — $142,184 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA FARMERS UNIONIOWA FARMERS UNION — $137,992 · OtherIOWA FARMERS UNIONCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS — $98,633 · OtherCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERSMINNESOTA FARMERS UNION — $84,542 · OtherFARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA MONTANA — $78,048 · OtherFARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION — $68,003 · OtherMISSOURI FARMERS UNION INC — $64,719 · OtherKANSAS FARMERS UNION INC — $64,293 · Other+13 more — $397,389 · Other+13 moreNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $674,685 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS CO…KENTUCKY HORTICULTURE COUNCIL INC — $137,292 · Food & NutritionKENTUCKY HORTICULTURE COU…ROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $72,493 · Food & NutritionROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UN…FLORIDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC GROWERS AND CONSUMERS INC — $36,028 · Food & NutritionCornell University — $441,079 · EducationCornell UniversityIOWA FARMERS UNION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $138,336 · EducationIOWA FARMERS UNION…Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $66,142 · EducationHawaii Farmers Uni…+2 more — $14,660 · EducationTHE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS0 — $408,403 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED …KANSAS FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION INC — $107,069 · Community ImprovementLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $47,474 · Community ImprovementKEEP GROWING DETROIT — $34,920 · Community ImprovementTILTH ALLIANCE — $123,984 · EnvironmentMARBLESEED INC — $30,264 · HealthNOT OUR FARM — $5,485 · Employment
Other$1,781,532Food & Nutrition$920,498Education$660,217Human Services$408,403Community Improvement$189,463Environment$123,984Health$30,264Employment$5,485

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $674,685 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCornell University — $441,079 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS0 — $408,403 over 8y, 65% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $341,775 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION — $148,244 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FARMERS UNION — $142,184 over 6y, 60% of budgetIOWA FARMERS UNION — $137,992 over 4y, 18% of budgetKENTUCKY HORTICULTURE COUNCIL INC — $137,292 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE — $123,984 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKANSAS FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION INC — $107,069 over 4y, 77% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS — $98,633 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMINNESOTA FARMERS UNION — $84,542 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA MONTANA — $78,048 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $72,493 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION — $68,003 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $66,142 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetKANSAS FARMERS UNION INC — $64,293 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $47,474 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFLORIDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC GROWERS AND CONSUMERS INC — $36,028 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKEEP GROWING DETROIT — $34,920 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARBLESEED INC — $30,264 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEBRASKA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION INC — $9,360 over 1y, 11% of budgetFARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE — $7,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOT OUR FARM — $5,485 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATI — $5,300 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • 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.

Farm Aid IncMA28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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, FY2025

    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.

    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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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