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MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ($24,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$348k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
$179k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Massachusetts Association of Future Farm does

Mission

To provide leadership training and career development events for future farmers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization ran a series of conventions, meetings and local training sessions. These include a state convention with an annual business meeting, leadership training programs, and competitive events with 500 annual attendees. Additionally, the organization ran a leadership camp attended by 130 students annually, 3 chapter development conferences (annual leadership training programs) with 165 attendees, 9 schools visited through chapter visits that included student leadership workshops and teacher training programs, and 37 individual student competitions with 1,000-1,100 participants.

    $299,455 spentof which $1,970 as grants$314,508 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $299,455.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($219k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 115 ($259k) Expenses 110 ($241k) Net assets 113 ($156k)2019 Revenue 82 ($185k) Expenses 91 ($198k) Net assets 103 ($142k)2020 Revenue 88 ($199k) Expenses 88 ($193k) Net assets 108 ($148k)2021 Revenue 50 ($112k) Expenses 43 ($94k) Net assets 121 ($166k)2022 Revenue 80 ($180k) Expenses 90 ($197k) Net assets 108 ($149k)2023 Revenue 88 ($197k) Expenses 78 ($170k) Net assets 129 ($177k)2024 Revenue 155 ($348k) Expenses 158 ($346k) Net assets 130 ($179k)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (158)Net assets (130)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $149k to $177k (+19%).

$137k
$156k
$142k
$148k
$166k
$149k
$177k
$179k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 4%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$18k
’18
−$13k
’19
$6k
’20
$18k
’21
−$17k
’22
$28k
’23
$2k
’24
6.2
months of
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.

Board chair

Derek Costa

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $8k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM’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.

Where its funders are

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM?
MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ($24,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $24,000 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM?
FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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