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FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION

FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,392,669 to it, the largest being EDWARD J OKRAY FOUNDATION INC ($566,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.3M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$34M
8/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Farming for the Future Foundation does

Program

  1. To promote agricultural literacy, increase the understanding of the origins of our food, and to deepen the relationship between farmers and consumers.

    $3,573,221 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($7k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 179 ($1.9M) Expenses 7326 ($499k) Net assets 382 ($6.1M)2021 Revenue 914 ($9.9M) Expenses 9630 ($655k) Net assets 968 ($16M)2022 Revenue 596 ($6.5M) Expenses 16790 ($1.1M) Net assets 1280 ($21M)2023 Revenue 656 ($7.1M) Expenses 36452 ($2.5M) Net assets 1572 ($25M)2024 Revenue 391 ($4.3M) Expenses 81442 ($5.5M) Net assets 2112 ($34M)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (391)Expenses (81442)Net assets (2112)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $24M to $36M (+50%).

$1.6M
$6.1M
$16M
$24M
$36M
$39M
201720202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

201720202021202220232024
Listed58910812
Joined··+1+1+0+4
No longer listed··0020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $16k → $970k.

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pavelski Family Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION’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

FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

32% 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 FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION.

17%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 73% · 2022 26% · 2023 26% — 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 FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

77% of FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

ID
MN
WI
MI
NY
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION?
FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,392,669 to it, the largest being EDWARD J OKRAY FOUNDATION INC ($566,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,392,669 in grants to FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION?
EDWARD J OKRAY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $566,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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