Kansas · Nonprofit
DFACARES FOUNDATION
DFACARES FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,500 to it, the largest being CAROL AND ALAN J BERNON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $941k
What Dfacares Foundation does
Mission
To provide disaster relief through product and monetary donation, and invest in the future of our industry with scholarships to students looking to pursue careers in dairy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship money for high school seniors and college students who wish to pursue a career in the dairy industry.
$86,500 spentof which $86,500 as grants9% of program spendingMonetary assistance to dairy farmers and producers who are affected when various natural disasters strike. Nutritious dairy and food products for those in need and other community outreach and support.
$847,887 spentof which $843,020 as grants91% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $934,387.
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 2021 to 2022, from $758k to $445k (−41%).
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.
83% of DFACARES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Ron Shelton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $85k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 DFACARES FOUNDATION’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
DFACARES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 DFACARES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2020 88% — 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
DFACARES FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DFACARES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DFACARES FOUNDATION
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Dairy Promotion Inc · exempt
- Dairy Farmers of America Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DFACARES FOUNDATION: 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 DFACARES FOUNDATION?
- DFACARES FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,500 to it, the largest being CAROL AND ALAN J BERNON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DFACARES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $115,500 in grants to DFACARES FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of DFACARES FOUNDATION?
- CAROL AND ALAN J BERNON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DFACARES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 6 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