Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA FARMERS UNION
IOWA FARMERS UNION (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,127 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($425,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Inclocal
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- United Way of Central Iowalocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2019 5% · 2020 87% · 2021 82% · 2023 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of IOWA FARMERS UNION’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 FARMERS UNION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 FARMERS UNION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 75% · 2020 58% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of IOWA FARMERS UNION'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
IOWA FARMERS UNION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bravo Greater Des Moines InclocalIA · funds 116 organizations near you
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central IowalocalIA · funds 151 organizations near you
- Climate Imperative Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Iowa Corn Grower's Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future Farmers of America Barnesville Mn Alumni Asportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Beef Cattle Producers Association Dba Iowa Beef Industry Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Aid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Farm Bureau Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Pork Producers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Rural Affairsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- IAA Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 IOWA FARMERS UNION
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
1% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA FARMERS UNION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA FARMERS UNION?
- IOWA FARMERS UNION (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,127 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($425,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA FARMERS UNION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,324,127 in grants to IOWA FARMERS UNION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA FARMERS UNION?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA FARMERS UNION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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