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FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION

FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,500 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($95,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.3M
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$173k
Grants received
$48M
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 115 ($1.6M) Expenses 119 ($1.6M) Net assets 120 ($14M)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.5M) Expenses 122 ($1.6M) Net assets 134 ($16M)2020 Revenue 126 ($1.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 206 ($24M)2021 Revenue 133 ($1.9M) Expenses 116 ($1.5M) Net assets 227 ($26M)2022 Revenue 217 ($3.1M) Expenses 165 ($2.2M) Net assets 263 ($30M)2023 Revenue 242 ($3.4M) Expenses 181 ($2.4M) Net assets 303 ($35M)2024 Revenue 289 ($4.1M) Expenses 219 ($2.9M) Net assets 376 ($43M)2025 Revenue 306 ($4.3M) Expenses 253 ($3.3M) Net assets 411 ($48M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (306)Expenses (253)Net assets (411)

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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 18% · 2024 9% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$112k
17
$68k
18
$44k
19
$374k
20
$368k
21
$911k
22
$1.1M
23
$1.2M
24
$1.0M
25
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $103k → $50k.

Funder
'20
'21
'24*
total
America Votesunclassified
$65k
Tides Advocacyunclassified
$13k
funders
3
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wisconsin Farmers Union Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION raised.

From the IRS filings of FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION’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

FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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 FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION.

55%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 100%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.

Where its funders are

55% of FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION'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 $78k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states.

CA
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Wisconsin Farmers Union Foundation · exempt
  • Wisconsin Farmers Union Svc Assn In · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION: 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 FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION?
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,500 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($95,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $172,500 in grants to FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION?
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing