Missouri · Nonprofit
AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA
AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA (Missouri) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,218,668 to it, the largest being CHS FOUNDATION ($1,985,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Agriculture Future of America does
Mission
Afa's mission statment is to build bridges for young leaders to foster engagement and innovation in food and agriculture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Experiential opportunities afa provides exposure and access to experiential opportunities for students to gain industry knowledge and experience from corporations, associations, government agencies and small businesses. See footnote 1.
$185,155 spent$625,838 earned by the program5% of program spendingLeader development programs afa offers leader development programs that enhance college students- and young professionals' ability to accelerate their role as leaders in the agriculture industry. See footnote 2
$1,562,854 spent$2,785,861 earned by the program39% of program spendingScholarship afa provides leader and academic scholarships to students attending post- secondary institutions. See footnote 3.
$492,330 spentof which $307,175 as grants$724,910 earned by the program12% of program spendingAllocated administrative support allocation of administrative expenses to support the program services in leader development, young professional development, collegiate relations and other one time learning institute and seminar programs.
$1,800,257 spent45% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,040,596.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.8M to $7.0M (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $62k → $1.4M.
7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 27% · 2019 46% · 2020 59% · 2021 53% · 2022 64% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $360k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$360k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA?
- AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA (Missouri) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,218,668 to it, the largest being CHS FOUNDATION ($1,985,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $8,218,668 in grants to AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA?
- CHS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,985,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing