Ohio · Nonprofit
OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION
OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,555 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($233,555). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $502k
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation does
Mission
The Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation is committed to inspire and educate the next generation of farmers, ensuring the progress and prosperity of ohio's agriculture far into the future. We create pathways for young people to learn about the variety and viability of careers in agriculture. Through scholarships, programming, and grants, the foundation builds a growing workforce of up-and-coming farmers who are passionate and prepared to grow ohio's agricultural communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Innovative programming: our signature science program, exploreag, offers free week and day long immersion programs for high-school students. In exploreag, teens learn about agriculture and related stem fields from industry experts, scientists, and educators.
$170,570 spent12% of program spendingWe award scholarships to students planning to pursue careers in agriculature and related fields. We issue grants to nonprofit organizations and county farm bureaus that help young people embrace food, agriculture, and environmental careers, and to programs advancing agriculatural education.
$106,054 spentof which $106,054 as grants8% of program spendingOur work starts with ag literacy. We teach students about agriculture and all the aspects of their lives it impacts. We introduce them to the educational and employment possibilities relating to farming. The foundation believes every young person in ohio has the potential to grow their career in agriculture.
$117,026 spent9% of program spendingOther programs for cultivating investment in ohio's farm and food community.
$974,306 spentof which $941,584 as grants71% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,367,956.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.7M to $6.7M (+18%).
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.
63% of OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kelly Burns
Executive director, foundation
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $78k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 OHIO 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
OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 48% · 2021 50% · 2022 81% · 2023 99% — 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
50% of OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of OHIO 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $485k 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
OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ohio Farm Bureau Federation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: 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 OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION?
- OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,555 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($233,555). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $501,555 in grants to OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $233,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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