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Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

To develop, foster, promote and protect programs for the general welfare, including economic, social, educational and political well-being of farm people of the great state of tennessee.

$206k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
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$541kEducation$135kAnimals$130kYouth Development$116kArts & Culture$75kRecreation & Sports$23k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $141,809, the rows itemized in this filing. The $205,912 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,103 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.
$16,067
Median grant
1
States reached
$168M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION$31,232
TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION$28,433
FARM ANIMAL CARE COALITION OF TENNESSEE$25,000
TENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM$16,067
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC$16,000
WILSON COUNTY PROMOTIONS INC$15,000
TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION$10,077
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US FARMERS & RANCHER ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 11%SUNBELT AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION INC: $8k → 9%FARM ANIMAL CARE COALITION OF TENNESSEE (FACCT): $25k → 9%TENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $65k → 10%TENNESSEE STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%SULLIVAN COUNTY CATTLEMAN'S ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $77k → 19%FARM ANIMAL CARE COALITION OF TENNESSEE: $25k → 9%THE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE: $5k → 10%TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $31k → 19%FARM ANIMAL CARE COALITION OF TENNESSEE: $25k → 9%TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $23k → 19%FARM ANIMAL CARE COALITION OF TENNESSEE: $25k → 9%TN FFA FOUNDATION INC: $22k → 19%FARM ANIMAL CARE COALITION OF TENNESSEE (FACCT): $25k → 9%TN FFA FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%TN FFA FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 19%TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $7k → 19%TN FFA FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 19%TENNESEE TECH: $5k → 19%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
-3%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TF
    TENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $236k · revenue +100%
  • T4
    TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $217k · revenue +84%
  • TF
    TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SC
    SULLIVAN COUNTY CATTLEMAN'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -41%
  • SA
    SUNBELT AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -3%
  • TT
    Tennessee Technological University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +63%
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
Annual Tennessee Beef Agribition

Promotion of the beef cattle industry

Recreation & Sports
2
Tennessee Local Food Summit

Support a healthy local food system

Food & Nutrition
3
Tennessee Grocers Education Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to promote education within the food industry by providing scholarships, promoting continuing education, and supporting programs at educational institutions.

Education
4
Tennessee Geographic Alliance

Education

Education
5
Oscar L Farris Agricultural Museum

To encourage interest, support and understanding of agriculture by collecting and preserving artifacts and information representative of Tennessees rural heritage

Arts & Culture
6
Tennessee Forestry Foundation

None

Environment
7
Tennessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair

Operation of annual agricultural and industrial fair

Food & Nutrition
8
Turfgrass Association Inc-Tennessee

Turfgrass research

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9
Moultrie-Douglas County Fair Association

Agricultural fair

Recreation & Sports
10
Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

To develop, foster, promote and protect programs for the general welfare, including economic, social, educational and political well-being of farm people of the great state of tennessee.

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11
Tennessee Forestry Association

To promote a better understanding and appreciation of tennessee forests through education, literary communication, and public relations.

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12
Texas Agricultural Education & Heritage Center

Agricultural education & heritage of farming

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Ffa Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sullivan County Cattleman's Association. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $236,418 · OtherTENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOMTENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $217,273 · OtherTENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $186,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEWILSON COUNTY PROMOTIONS INC: $90,000 · OtherWILSON COUNTY PROMOTIONS INC+1 more: $7,500 · OtherTENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $189,072 · EducationTENNESSEE FFA FOUN…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFarm Animal Care Coalition of TN: $125,000 · AnimalsFarm Animal Car…SULLIVAN COUNTY CATTLEMAN'S ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · AnimalsSULLIVAN COUNTY…THE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $36,000 · Food & NutritionTENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $10,077 · Food & NutritionTennessee State Fair Association: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsUS FARMERS AND RANCHERS ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$737,691Education$194,072Animals$155,000Food & Nutrition$46,077Recreation & Sports$22,500Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $236,418 over 5y, 13% of budgetTENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $217,273 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $189,072 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetFarm Animal Care Coalition of TN: $125,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetWILSON COUNTY PROMOTIONS INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $36,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSUNBELT AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTennessee Technological University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS FARMERS AND RANCHERS ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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