Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION
IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,201,438 to it, the largest being IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION ($1,053,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $269k
What Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation does
Mission
To educate iowans with a focus on youth regarding the breadth & global significance of agriculture. To serve as a central resource for educators and volunteers who want to teach iowa's students about agriculture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Agriculture in the classroom - the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation (ialf) delivers statewide educational programs that advance agricultural literacy among students and educators. Program activities include teacher professional development, classroom presentations, community outreach events, volunteer training, and the development of curricula and student publications. Ialf provides professional development workshops and online graduate level courses that equip k12 educators with the knowledge and tools to integrate agriculture and stem concepts into instruction aligned with the iowa academic standards. Staff also present agricultural literacy resources at statewide education conferences, including social studies, science, talented and gifted, and reading conferences. Ialf engages students and families through hands on learning activities at community events such as county fairs, the iowa state fair, and stem festivals across iowa. The organization also develops on demand classroom programs such as journey 2050, an online platform that teaches sustainable agriculture. The farmchat program further enhances outreach by providing virtual field trips connecting students with…
$337,028 spentof which $106,099 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $337,028.
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 $108k to $383k (+253%).
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: 2021 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION’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. 4 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
Kelly Foss
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $150k → $286k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY 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
IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 49% · 2020 42% · 2021 46% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — 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
60% of IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
98% of IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$300k
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 IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY 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.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION?
- IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,201,438 to it, the largest being IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION ($1,053,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,201,438 in grants to IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION?
- IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,053,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA AGRICULTURE LITERACY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 16 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