Texas · Nonprofit
FARMER VETERAN COALITION
FARMER VETERAN COALITION (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,581,682 to it, the largest being WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ($1,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $225k
What Farmer Veteran Coalition does
Mission
The farmver veteran coalition cultivates a new generation of farmers and food leaders, and develops viable employment and meaningful careers through the collaboration of the farming and military communities. We believe that veterans possess the unique skills and character needed to strengthen rural communities and create sustainable food systems. We believe that agriculture offers purpose, opportunity, and physical and psychological benefits.Farmer Veteran Coalition was formed to help at-risk veterans as they re-enter civilian society by connecting them with meaningful and stable career opportunities in the agricultural sector, and to help veterans who are suffering from particularly severe combat-related injuries to locate services and therapy options that will enable them to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The behavorial health department at fvc is designed to support the mental, emotional, and social well-being of farmer veterans, recognizing that the unique combination of military service and agricultural life can create significant stress.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Member services - the organization has formed a coalition of veterans across the united states to assist each other in finding meaningful careers in agriculture. The coalition has established outreach programs to encourage local relationships, and has developed a homegrown by heroes trademark with labels and products to use by member veteran farmers across the united states. Additionally fvc has a fellowship fund to provide financial support for business start-up costs and scholarships as well as internships to educate veterans about the business of agriculture.
$1,652,681 spentof which $664,556 as grants$68,599 earned by the program89% of program spendingOutreach and education - in addition to the membership activity, the Farmer Veteran Coalition does outreach and education to find veterans with the ability to benefit from membership and to identify farmers and other community members to act as resources and mentors and to educate the general public about the opportunities for veterans in agriculture.
$194,427 spent$33,103 earned by the program11% of program spendingThe behavorial health department at Farmer Veteran Coalition is designed to support the mental, emotional, and social well-being of farmer veterans, recognizing the unique combination of military service and agricultural life can create significant stress.
$3,949 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,847,108.
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 2020 to 2021, from $625k to $1.0M (+62%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 26% · 2019 24% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% · 2024 35% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FARMER VETERAN COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Jeanette Lombardo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $66k → $293k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FARMER VETERAN COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
FARMER VETERAN COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 FARMER VETERAN COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 45% · 2019 33% · 2020 37% · 2021 62% · 2022 52% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
28% of FARMER VETERAN COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
FARMER VETERAN COALITION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k 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.
Against its field
FARMER VETERAN COALITION's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FARMER VETERAN COALITION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$500k
- Small Business Administration$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FARMER VETERAN COALITION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FARMER VETERAN COALITION: 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 FARMER VETERAN COALITION?
- FARMER VETERAN COALITION (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,581,682 to it, the largest being WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ($1,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARMER VETERAN COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,581,682 in grants to FARMER VETERAN COALITION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARMER VETERAN COALITION?
- WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARMER VETERAN COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 34 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