Colorado · Nonprofit
MAD AGRICULTURE
MAD AGRICULTURE (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,446,199 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Mad Agriculture does
Mission
Mad Agricultures mission is to create a regenerative revolution in agriculture. Regenerative agriculture is a place-based relational approach to farming that restores soil health increases biodiversity and renews the ecological cultural and economic vitality of working lands. It draws from many traditions including scientific and ancestral to heal relationships between people land and the systems that sustain us.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Regenerative Catalyst Fund: The Regenerative Catalyst Fund RCF is a nationwide program designed to help farmers implement regenerative and organic practices on their land. The fund aims to provide financial and technical assistance to farmers who are committed to transitioning from conventional farming practices to regenerative agriculture methods. The program is designed to be highly accessible and flexible facilitating a farmers move from design to action by covering the costs of inputs equipment labor and expert consultation. In 2024 Mad Agriculture provided $391,896 across 37 projects that impacted 122,799 acres of land. This program is supported by a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant CIG and is poised to become a major resource for the farmers ranchers and land stewards Mad Agriculture supports in our work.
$524,519 spentof which $391,896 as grants$796,711 earned by the program28% of program spendingMad Lands: Our Mad Land and Business team provides comprehensive support to farmers ranchers and land stewards through thought partnership business strategy financial assistance network connection and access to other regenerative experts. We specialize in annual and perennial system design with expertise in agroforestry grazing staple crops and wilding. Our team offers guidance in holistic management enterprise budgeting and regenerative organic transitions ensuring that farmers have the strategic tools to build resilient operations. We support project design and management while connecting farmers with technical assistance for implementation. Additionally we provide access to financial assistance through Mad Ags internal Regenerative Catalyst Fund RCF Restore Colorado and grant identification and writing support ensuring that regenerative projects receive the resources needed to thrive. In 2024 we began two major projects with wide ranging benefits and great potential for regeneration our Wilding Program and Bison Project with the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in Oklahoma. In 2024 we piloted the program on 4 farms in 3 states with 110 acres of newly perennialized diverse plantings…
$467,008 spent$533,571 earned by the program25% of program spendingMad Media: The revolution in agriculture must be irresistible and it requires a movement of people businesses and land to create a new system. Our media work is igniting engagement in the regenerative movement by sharing its stories. Through a variety of storytelling mediums we are helping to explore and create the new agrarian culture. In these efforts we are dedicated to living the questions trusting that in the living we will find the answers. The art that we promote illuminates a connection to place to ecology and to a community of food. We lift up new voices. We spotlight the work of farmers who take radical and thoughtful approaches to their work. The Mad Agriculture Journal continued to serve as a cornerstone of MAD!s storytelling in2024 offering a biannual collection of essays photography and interviews that celebrate the people practices and philosophies driving the regenerative movement. Across the country our team hosted 17 Mad Agriculture events and spoke at 35 industry gatherings sharing insights with over 6,000 people in person. In 2024 Mad Media created Cultivating Conservation a dynamic storytelling platform that highlights the critical role of USDA conservation…
$399,128 spent$54,217 earned by the program22% of program spendingOther program services were aggregated and added to line 4d to ensure total in line 4e ties to total in part IX. These programs include farm consulting.
$451,256 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,841,911.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $377k to $1.8M (+375%).
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: 2020 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of MAD AGRICULTURE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Philip Taylor
Executive director
Board chair
Robbie Vitrano
Board of directors - chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $65k → $1.8M.
13 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MAD AGRICULTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
MAD AGRICULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
40% 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 MAD AGRICULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 46% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 24% · 2023 16% — 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 MAD AGRICULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
MAD AGRICULTURE draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MAD AGRICULTURE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MAD AGRICULTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.8M
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 MAD AGRICULTURE
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
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 MAD AGRICULTURE: 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 MAD AGRICULTURE?
- MAD AGRICULTURE (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,446,199 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAD AGRICULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $6,446,199 in grants to MAD AGRICULTURE, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAD AGRICULTURE?
- Woka Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAD AGRICULTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 39 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