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CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND

CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,009,703 to it, the largest being THE JAMES G BOSWELL FOUNDATION ($3,700,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$7.0M
Net assets
$29M
18/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What California Agricultural Leadership Found does

Mission

To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. We grow leaders who make a difference.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educational - to motivate and prepare men and women in agriculture for more effective leadership. Each year up to 48 fellows study business, government, economics and urban affairs in the seventeen-month leadership development program that contains both domestic and internationally-based seminars. Shorter term immersions in the issues impacting california agriculture are facilitated by calf staff, with support from alumni, through the washington d.c. Educational fellowship program and the california educational fellowship program.

    $1,874,315 spent$24,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,874,315.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 134 ($2.3M) Expenses 89 ($1.6M) Net assets 111 ($19M)2019 Revenue 161 ($2.8M) Expenses 87 ($1.6M) Net assets 118 ($20M)2020 Revenue 172 ($3.0M) Expenses 97 ($1.7M) Net assets 125 ($21M)2021 Revenue 189 ($3.3M) Expenses 85 ($1.5M) Net assets 161 ($27M)2022 Revenue 227 ($4.0M) Expenses 159 ($2.8M) Net assets 137 ($23M)2023 Revenue 183 ($3.2M) Expenses 168 ($3.0M) Net assets 154 ($26M)2024 Revenue 183 ($3.2M) Expenses 172 ($3.1M) Net assets 164 ($28M)2025 Revenue 212 ($3.7M) Expenses 188 ($3.4M) Net assets 170 ($29M)
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Revenue (212)Expenses (188)Net assets (170)Peer revenue range

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 $22M to $28M (+28%).

$17M
$19M
$20M
$22M
$28M
$24M
$27M
$29M
$29M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

35% of CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’17
$760k
’18
$1.3M
’19
$1.3M
’20
$1.8M
’21
$1.1M
’22
$209k
’23
$124k
’24
$360k
’25
1.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

Lesa Eidman

President & CEO

Board chair

Mike Young

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed161615161714131314
Joined·+1+2+2+6+0+5+0+4
No longer listed·13153603
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $136k → $732k.

11 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND’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

CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

53%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 40% · 2019 67% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 77% · 2023 48% — 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

39% of CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND's grant income comes from California funders.

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MN
NY
MA
CA
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $782k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 23%Fundraising 21%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

44%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND?
CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,009,703 to it, the largest being THE JAMES G BOSWELL FOUNDATION ($3,700,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $7,009,703 in grants to CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND?
THE JAMES G BOSWELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 24 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