Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MARBLESEED INC
MARBLESEED INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $948,608 to it, the largest being THE BROOKHILL FOUNDATION ($332,595). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $949k
- Net assets
- $411k
What Marbleseed Inc does
Mission
Marbleseed educates, inspires, and empowers farmers to thrive in a sustainable, organic system of agriculture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Farmer-led learning is at the heart of marbleseed's programming, ensuring that every training, event, and resource is shaped by the farmers who know the land best. In 2025, this included our 36th organic farming conference, held in la crosse, wi where over 1,500 organic and regenerative farmers gathered to network and learn before the start of the growing season under the theme "local food revolution." the event featured more than 80 expert- led workshops, farmer-led summits, and hands-on demonstrations on topics ranging from soil health and organic grain rotation to food sovereignty and climate resilience. Attendees also explored a trade show with over 150 exhibitors, connecting with industry leaders and discovering the latest innovations in organic farming. Workshops and discussions covered collectively addressing barriers to organic management, including policy solutions at all levels. Beyond the conference, marbleseed hosts on-farm field days across the midwest, from urban market gardens to silvopasture operations, potato farms, and cranberry farms. These events offer real-time learning on conservation practices, equipment, crop rotations, organic weed management, and emerging…
$396,094 spent$152,354 earned by the program21% of program spendingMarbleseed strengthens the ecological foundations of midwest farming through training, mentorship, and on-farm learning rooted in organic and regenerative principles. Our conservation and organic management programming equips farmers with practical strategies for soil health, climate resilience, biodiversity restoration, and long-term viability. In 2025, field days showcased applied conservation at farms like atoms to apples farm in mount horeb, wi, where 65 farmers learned orchard-floor management, equipment use, and organic herbicide trials. A field day with mchugh farm and la crosse distilling co. Demonstrated circular agriculture, composting systems using distillery by-products, and the organic grain to distillery value chain. Other field days targeted growers often underserved in conservation programs and funding. On-farm, hands-on demonstrations of cover cropping, compost systems, adaptive grazing, reduced tillage, and perennial integration enable farmers to personalize these practices to their own operations and circumstances specific to organically managed systems. These events will be complemented by conservation-rich conference sessions, webinars and learning…
$133,230 spent$47,298 earned by the program7% of program spendingMarbleseed provides comprehensive technical assistance that addresses the most persistent barriers facing current and next-generation farmers, including land access, startup resources, organic transition, and the social and emotional stresses of farming. Through a combination of personalized support, digital tools, and community networks, we help farmers overcome systemic obstacles and build resilient businesses. We also strengthen farmer wellbeing through programs like the climate healing & resilience circle series and our honoring our elders curriculum, which support stress management, intergenerational healing, and peer connection. Additionally, our allyship trainings and the resulting network foster more inclusive agricultural spaces by providing the upstander skills for rural neighbors and building solidarity across diverse farming communities. Access to farmland persists as a barrier due to scarcity, development pressures, and rising costs. Marbleseed seeks unique solutions such as collective land access models, farmland link ups, and relationships with real estate agents, lenders, and multiple generations of farmers. Our 48-page quarterly publication the organic broadcaster…
$1,378,275 spent72% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,907,599.
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 2024 to 2025, from $460k to $953k (+107%).
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: 2017 18% · 2018 28% · 2019 19% · 2020 21% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 64% · 2024 72% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MARBLESEED INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $221k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MARBLESEED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
MARBLESEED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 MARBLESEED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 58% · 2019 61% · 2020 77% · 2021 99% · 2022 27% · 2023 47% — 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
13% of MARBLESEED INC'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
MARBLESEED INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
MARBLESEED INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MARBLESEED INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.2M
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 MARBLESEED INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MARBLESEED INC: 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 MARBLESEED INC?
- MARBLESEED INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $948,608 to it, the largest being THE BROOKHILL FOUNDATION ($332,595). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARBLESEED INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $948,608 in grants to MARBLESEED INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARBLESEED INC?
- THE BROOKHILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $332,595 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARBLESEED INC 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.
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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 18 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