Louisiana · Nonprofit
BLACK FARMERS INDEX
BLACK FARMERS INDEX (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,715 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC ($145,780). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $381k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Black Farmers Index does
Mission
Black Farmers Index ("The Index") addresses food insecurity, failures in the food system, and inequities in agriculture as part of our commitment to ensuring that Black farmers and growers thrive. This is done by providing a more successful consumer-to-Black farmer pipeline, as well as connecting agriculturalists to agencies, institutions, and salient resources that build their overall business through creative marketing, educational services, outreach, and intentional community building.The Index employs four pillars of focus:1. Increase marketing towards the Black AG ecosystem that includes growers, ranchers, fisherfolk, beekeepers, foragers, and foresters.2. Collect, assess, and distribute more accurate information on Black growers.3. Provide resources on pathways for harvesters access to capital. 4. Advocate for and inform Black agriculturalists on how to acquire farmland.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Partner in the US Department of Agricultures Transition to Organic Partnership Program for the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions: the Index recruits and inform farmers to transition from conventional to organic farming, or to enlist their organic practices in the certification process by way of community building, technical assistance, and outreach via on-and-off the farm.
$184,572 spentof which $40,000 as grants$214,758 earned by the program70% of program spendingMaintaining and expanding The Index, a large publicly sourced online database of Black producers, growers, ranchers, beekeepers, foresters, foragers, and fisherfolk. Through The Index we drive exposure to farmers in the following ways: a comprehensive online directory; media promotion and short online stories; instructional short videos; educational workshops for farmers; food-centered virtual and in-person events; curated farmer lists for individuals and institutions; farmer features in news or other media outlets; and data gathering and reporting.
$50,098 spent19% of program spendingProvide on-farm, agricultural-centered activities by curating tours, field days, workshops, meet ups, networking sessions, educational classes and dinner gatherings across the United States.
$29,004 spent11% of program spendingProvide technical assistance, market development assistance and resource information to both producers and the public. This also includes data gathering and reporting; and collaborations with organizations and companies on initiatives.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $263,674.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $51k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 BLACK FARMERS INDEX’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BLACK FARMERS INDEX leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLACK FARMERS INDEX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
BLACK FARMERS INDEX draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BLACK FARMERS INDEX's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BLACK FARMERS INDEX
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK FARMERS INDEX?
- BLACK FARMERS INDEX (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,715 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC ($145,780). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK FARMERS INDEX have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $380,715 in grants to BLACK FARMERS INDEX, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK FARMERS INDEX?
- PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC is the largest funder on record, with $145,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK FARMERS INDEX find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing