Illinois · Nonprofit
FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL
FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,408 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($235,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Farm Stew International does
Mission
Farm Stew Internationals mission is to equip families to break free from extreme poverty by sharing gods powerful recipe for abundant life throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FREEDOM FROM DEPENDENCY: FARM STEW empowers families to be self-sufficient by teaching classes that emphasize Farming, Attitude, Rest, Meals, & Temperance. These funds were used to hire, equip, and mobilize local Christian trainers who lead the efforts in impoverished communities. Families who have Freedom from Dependency can overcome malnutrition with locally grown food and prepare healthy plant-based meals. In 2025, FARM STEW trained over 7,627 households across countries using a holistic Bible-based approach designed to build self-reliance and sustainable living skills. Across completed programs, 4,977 households and 38 communities achieved Certification status, demonstrating improved kitchen garden, healthy children (MUAC>_ 12.5 cm), a rubbish pit, clean latrine, handwashing station, and dish rack - plus 3 of 5: composting, weekly community participation, income-generating activity or saving, practice temperance, and purify water. These outputs will result in reduced hunger, disease, pverty, hopelessness, and dependency, which will be measured during the endline survey.
$936,502 spentof which $799,875 as grants$245,120 earned by the program66% of program spendingFREEDOM FROM SHAME & FREEDOM TO SHARE: FARM STEW educates girls & boys in menstrual health & SANITATION. These funds were used to encourage girls to continue their education uninterrupted by providing them with washable menstrual supplies, thus freeing them from shame. FARM STEW also allows individuals and partners to learn, apply, & contextualize the FARM STEW concept of abundant living in local languages & user-friendly Materials. These funds were used to fund training of trainers events in countries where FARM STEW plans to launch an outreach program. In 2025, 7,375 reusable sanitary pad kits and 14,750 panties, supporting girls and. womens menstrual health. These distributions contributed to reducing mentrual-related stigma and promoting confidence and participation among adolescent girls in the communities served. FARM STEW also strengthened knowledge-sharing across 492 communities, enabling participants to learn and apply practical sanitation and health lessons in culturally appropriate ways.
$340,077 spentof which $262,891 as grants$19,870 earned by the program24% of program spendingFREEDOM FROM DRUDGERY & DISEASE: FARM STEW promotes SANITATION in communities by instructing on how to have clean, safe WATER, construct family latrines, tippy-taps, and efficient cookstoves. In addition, these funds were used to drill & repair boreholes/wells that provide accessible, safe, pure water to people who previously had limited or no access. Families who have Freedom from Disease and Drudgery can access pure water, construct latrines and tippy-taps, and build efficient cookstoves. In 2025, FARM STEW improved access to safe water and hygiene by drilling three boreholes, benefiting at least 900 people with clean water, sanitation, and improved disease prevention. The program reached 492 communities with training on sanitation practices as part of the eight ingredients of abundant life, strengthening community-wide hygiene behaviors. Through practical demonstrations in more than 7,627 households, families were equipped to adopt improved sanitation practices such as safe water use and hygiene behaviors that reduce disease and daily drudgery.
$116,087 spentof which $89,739 as grants$157,900 earned by the program8% of program spendingFREEDOM TO PROSPER: FARM STEW trains in the principles of money management to help participants become financially free and start small local ENTERPRISES. These funds were used to purchase supplies to establish village savings & loan assoc. & farmers co-ops. Families who have Freedom to Prosper practice Biblical money management & launch local business initiatives.
$28,970 spentof which $22,395 as grants$3,244 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,421,636.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $1.6M (+59%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 9% · 2020 13% · 2021 7% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Joy Kauffman
Executive director
Board chair
Susan Cherne
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $113k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL’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
FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
80% 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 FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 69% · 2021 68% · 2022 44% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
60% of FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $434k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $641k 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
FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL
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 Illinois
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL: 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 FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL?
- FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,408 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($235,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,075,408 in grants to FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARM STEW INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 13 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