Minnesota · Nonprofit
Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc
Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,666,112 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($550,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $815k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $888k
What Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc does
Mission
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which operates a law center that provides legal services and support to America's family farmers and their communities to help keep farmers on the land.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the entirety of 2024, FLAG also continued operating its national Family Farmer Legal Assistance Hotline and answered calls from across the United States on a broad range of issues including bankruptcy; farm business issues; contracts; crop insurance; disaster assistance; discrimination; private and USDA Farm Service Agency credit/lending issues; farmland access; farm family probate/wills/estates matters; farmer-lender mediation; federal support and relief programs, rules, and regulations; appeals of adverse federal agency decisions; foreclosures; landlord/tenant disputes; property rights; and other issues. During this year, FLAG attorneys conducted nineteen trainings attended by more than 600 farmers, farm advocates, attorneys, and other interested individuals. Topics included farm borrowers' rights, federal farm programs, farm credit, and other pressing legal issues facing farmers throughout the year. FLAG attorneys also published a 256-page Farmers' Guide to Minnesota Lending Law.During 2024, FLAG held five free Continuing Legal Education classes for attorneys, and four professional development educational sessions for agricultural professionals in Minnesota. In total,…
$519,865 spent$219,543 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $519,865.
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 2017 to 2018, from $381k to $865k (+127%).
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 57% · 2018 15% · 2019 43% · 2020 34% · 2021 56% · 2022 44% · 2023 45% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Scott Carlson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $126k → $360k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc’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' Legal Action Group Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
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 Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 98% · 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 52% · 2022 39% · 2023 69% — 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
50% of Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112 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.
Government funding Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.7M
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 Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc: 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' Legal Action Group Inc?
- Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,666,112 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($550,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,666,112 in grants to Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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