Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU
MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Macomb County Farm Bureau ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Michigan Farm Bureau does
Mission
Michigan Farm Bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The public policy and commodity division provides leadership and resources for the organization in the public policy, industry, conservation, regulatory relations, and government relations arenas. We assist county farm bureaus and farm bureau members with agricultural and policy issues, with the development of ideas into policy positions, and we work to implement those policies via a variety of channels, including many different organizations, and many agencies of local, state, and federal government. Our grassroots policy development process involves over 1,000 volunteer members throughout our state. The final results of our grassroots policy process culminate with new policies adopted by voting delegates at our annual meeting. Our programming and events served over 1,000 members this year, providing them with new resources, leadership training, and the most current information. Our policy implementation efforts achieve many successes for our farmers, including reducing regulatory burdens, improving infrastructure, and creating a business environment where farming can thrive and be successful.
The center for marketing and media division (cmm) is responsible for general communications with members regarding Michigan Farm Bureau (mfb) policies, programs and issues of importance in the agricultural industry through the following publications:press releases through cision media software to more than 300 michigan-based media outlets; michigan farm news for farmer-members on the latest breaking agricultural news; farm gate for all farmer-members on involvement opportunities and county farm bureau activities; seasonal savings for all members on member exclusive discounts and savings and insurance related services. Cmm also provides content updates, oversight and administrative support to the organization website and email marketing tool. Cmm provides editorial support, graphic design, video services and also leads promotion via the organization's social media platforms on facebook, linkedin, youtube and instagram.
The field operations division provides membership services. The regional manger's interaction is how farm bureau's grassroots process provides every farm bureau member an opportunity to participate and voice their concerns regarding issues pertinent to the agricultural industry. Promotes leadership and development for county leaders through the county leadership activites and events and presidents conference. Designs, implements, and administers field support to county farm bureaus.
In addition, the division prepares and develops agricultural leaders. This is accomplished through education and leadership development programs for current local ag leaders, state and local committees, and members. A targeted program is for young farmers between the ages of 18 and 35. It offers agricultural education, action committees, leadership training, competitions, and social events to encourage involvement and to develop future leadership. Promotion and education programs for public education about the agricultural industry are offered for 4-h clubs, and ffa chapters, schools, and civic groups. The farm science lab is a 40 foot mobile classroom that travels directly to schools and is designed to reinforce grade-level standards with hands-on science experiments and increasing students' knowledge of how agriculture impacts their daily lives. In addition to the farm science labs, we operate a farm science van that travels to schools providing in classroom education. The van offers a little different experience in the classroom verses in the mobile lab but still provides grade-level standards with hands-on science experiments and increasing students' knowledge of how…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $12M to $23M (+86%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0%. 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.
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
Scott Piggott
Chief executive officer-end 1/4/24
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $25k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $32M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Michigan Foundation for Agriculture). These are real filings, and they are not money MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU raised.
From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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.
Government funding MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$75k
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 MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Mfb Political Action Committee · exempt
- Farm Bureau PAC (Aka Super Pac) · exempt
- Mi Foundation for Agriculture · exempt
- Mi Ag Cooperative Marketing Association · corp_trust
- Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co of Mi · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU?
- MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Macomb County Farm Bureau ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU?
- Macomb County Farm Bureau is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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