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MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION

MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,193 to it, the largest being IAA Foundation ($24,193). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$110k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$44k
Net assets
$393k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Macon County Farm Bureau Foundation does

Mission

To provide scholarships and promote ag education.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Scholarships

    $46,300 spentof which $46,300 as grants
    70% of program spending
  2. Ag in the classroom

    $19,479 spent
    30% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,779.

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 ($36k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($235k)2018 Revenue 146 ($52k) Expenses 94 ($33k) Net assets 108 ($255k)2019 Revenue 149 ($53k) Expenses 109 ($39k) Net assets 115 ($270k)2020 Revenue 102 ($36k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 115 ($270k)2021 Revenue 168 ($60k) Expenses 103 ($37k) Net assets 125 ($294k)2022 Revenue 152 ($54k) Expenses 124 ($44k) Net assets 123 ($289k)2023 Revenue 186 ($67k) Expenses 134 ($48k) Net assets 128 ($301k)2024 Revenue 307 ($110k) Expenses 177 ($63k) Net assets 152 ($357k)2025 Revenue 136 ($49k) Expenses 179 ($64k) Net assets 146 ($344k)2026 Revenue 308 ($110k) Expenses 217 ($77k) Net assets 167 ($393k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Revenue (308)Expenses (217)Net assets (167)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 2023 to 2024, from $327k to $394k (+20%).

$255k
$272k
$291k
$289k
$316k
$317k
$327k
$394k
$384k
$442k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$116
’17
$19k
’18
$15k
’19
$598
’20
$24k
’21
$10k
’22
$19k
’23
$47k
’24
−$15k
’25
$33k
’26

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.

Board chair

Dave Carr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $8k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
1
2

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU 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

MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION.

55%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 56% · 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.

Where its funders are

77% of MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 73 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 73 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION?
MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,193 to it, the largest being IAA Foundation ($24,193). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $44,193 in grants to MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION?
IAA Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $24,193 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MACON COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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