· Public charity
Future Farmers of America
Providing support for the local ffa
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA BARNESVILLE MN ALUMNI AS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 65 grants below total $713,152 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,555,568 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,842,416 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k30 grants · $231k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $482k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA FFA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI FFA ASSOCIATION | $21,300 |
| NORTH CAROLINA FFA ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| UTAH STATE FFA ASSOCIATION | $19,300 |
| NORTH DAKOTA FFA ASSOCIATION | $18,500 |
| VIRGINIA FFA ASSOCIATION | $16,800 |
| ARIZONA ASSOCIATION FFA | $15,900 |
| NEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF FFA | $14,600 |
| WEST VIRGINIA STATE FFA ASSOCIATION | $14,400 |
| WASHINGTON STATE FFA ASSOCIATION | $14,300 |
| OKLAHOMA FFA ASSOCIATION | $13,900 |
| MONTANA FFA ASSOCIATION | $13,600 |
| OHIO FFA ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| KENTUCKY FFA ASSOCIATION | $13,400 |
| GEORGIA FFA FOUNDATION | $13,400 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your 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 +79% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k 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
- WFWISCONSIN FFA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2023 · $71k · revenue +83%
- FFFUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA - VIRGINIA4× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +70%
- GFGEORGIA FFA FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2023 · $48k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- EGELK GROVE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $31k
- GHGALT HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $31k
- RLRIO LINDA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $31k
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.
Promotion of agricultural activities for high school students
The indiana ffa association is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
Alumni organization supporting our local ffa chapter and providing agricultural education.
To make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
To promote premier leadership personal growth and career success of Idaho FFA members and agricultural education students by providing strategic financial resources for the Idaho FFA Association. To grow the next generation of leaders who…
Development of leadership skills for students enrolled in agriculture, food and natural resource education.
Ffa makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. the ohio ffa association provides personal development and…
National and state conventions, conferences and career development events are conducted to provide agricultural leadership training activities and conduct association business. registration and travel fees are collected and disbursed by…
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success, developing a competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increasing the awareness of…
Txffa makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
The missouri ffa association is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of young people by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
The wyoming ffa association provides agriculture education and services to wyoming students with programs for middle school, junior high, high school, and college students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Future Farmers of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Huntington 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 81 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 108 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 WISCONSIN FFA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA - VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois FFA Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds OREGON FFA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Idaho FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA FFA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA FFA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF FFA ↗
- Who funds AL FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FFA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds New York Association of FFA ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FFA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA FFA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA FFA ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Growmark Foundation · Share Our Strength · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Future Farmers of America 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.