Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,727 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($95,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $198k
- Net assets
- $48M
What Farmers Educational & Co-Op Union of America - Wi Division does
Mission
Wisconsin farmers union, a member-driven organization, is committed to enhancing the quality of life for family farmers, rural communities, and all people through educational opportunities, cooperative endeavors, and civic engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Convention with educational events and policy making, wiconsin women in conservation educational workshops and conservation plan development, emerging leaders workshop, chapter meetings, local food purchasing grant opportunities, climate change summits, rural revitalization summits, soil and water quality events and demonstrations.
Youth programs: over 250 youth participated in summer camp. Day camps, library days, and events were offered focusing on agricultural education.
Policy education: members participated in multiple civic education opportunities in madison and washington dc. Scholarships were provided to support future leaders through beginning farms institute, wisconsin emerging leaders workshops, and farmers union emerging leaders program.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 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 2023 to 2024, from $36M to $49M (+36%).
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: 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.
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
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $103k → $50k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 48% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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.
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
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION
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 Wisconsin
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 2 related entities
- Wisconsin Farmers Union Foundation · exempt
- Wisconsin Farmers Union Svc Assn In · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,727 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($95,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & CO-OP UNION OF AMERICA - WI DIVISION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $197,727 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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