California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION
CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,000 to it, the largest being WATER FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $74M
What California Farm Bureau Federation does
Mission
To implement policies and develop work programs that will improve the financial well-being and quality of life of california farmers and ranchers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership development: to develop effective working relationships with the members of farm bureau. Specific programs include: membership retention, leadership development, young farmers and ranchers, growing farm bureau, citizenship, scholarship, safety, and rural health committees.
Communications: the farm bureau communications/news services provide information to the membership and the general public through radio, television, newspaper, magazine, and website. The purpose is to present agriculture's viewpoint to the media when it is needed. The weekly publication, ag alert, emphasizes the analysis of legislation, capitol events and market news.
Insurance programs: these programs provide commercial, home, auto, life, and workers' compensation insurance services as well as financial, retirement planning, and retirement plan services to our farm bureau membership.
Monitoring current state, national, and international agricultural issues impacting california producers. Reporting on issues through the issue advisory committees to county farm bureaus and the membership. Analyzing commodity related state and federal legislation, regulations and then making recommendations to the cfbf board of directors.representation of members at the state and national levels of government. Includes work on legislation and regulations affecting taxes, education, water, land use, energy, labor, pesticides, transportation, commodities, and air quality among other issues.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $91M to $77M (−16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION’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 FARM BUREAU FEDERATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 87% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- River Plaza Properties LLC · disregarded
- California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom · exempt
- California Farm Bureau Scholarship Foundation · exempt
- California Farm Bureau Fund to Protect the Family Farm · exempt
- California Bountiful Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: 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 CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION?
- CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,000 to it, the largest being WATER FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $215,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION?
- WATER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION 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 3 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