Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION
PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,996 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA SOYBEAN BOARD ($230,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $702k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation is to preserve and promote agriculture-the largest of the commonwealth's industries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mobile agriculture education science lab is available for schools to increase student awareness about the importance of agriculture in their daily lives. The mobile science lab provided agriculture education to 158 schools during the fiscal year.
$578,798 spent$319,409 earned by the program68% of program spendingThe ag-in-the-classroom teacher workshop is a one-week course to educate teachers (k-12) how food moves from the source to the customer. Teachers then use their personal experiences and information they have received to integrate agriculture into their curriculum. Ag-in-the-classroom educated 31 teachers during the fiscal year.
$125,358 spent$35,375 earned by the program15% of program spendingUsda outreach and education initiative will promote agriculture enterprise development, expansion, and sustainability among veteran farmers throughout pennsylvania. Foa has partnered with the pa veteran farming project on this three-year project. The project will engage and empower beginning and future farmers who are veterans, equipping them with tools to build profitable and sustainable agribusinesses in the commonwealth. Through resource referral, education, and mentoring, our target audience will: (1) gain awareness and understanding of usda and other federal, state, and local resources and programming; (2) learn to navigate and access the sometimes-confusing web of technical assistance available locally and regionally; (3) improve their understanding of, and successfully obtain, financial resources such as grants, loans, and cost share program funding. (4) convene annual statewide veteran farming summits, host 5 workshops throughout pennsylvania each of the three years and create a veteran-to-veteran mentoring program, ag allies. The project will reach a minimum of 300 eligible veterans resulting in at least 24 new farms as a result of grant activities.
$142,348 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $846,504.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $1.5M (+40%).
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 13% · 2021 16% · 2022 27% · 2023 11% · 2024 17% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION’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. 4 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
Charlene Espenshade
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $150k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $452k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pennsylvania Farm Bureau). These are real filings, and they are not money PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE 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
PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
54% 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 PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 99% · 2021 40% · 2022 68% · 2023 53% — 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 PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
77% of PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k 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
PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $865k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$865k
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 PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 2 related entities
- The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau · exempt
- Pfb Members' Service Corporation · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE 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 PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION?
- PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,996 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA SOYBEAN BOARD ($230,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $701,996 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION?
- PENNSYLVANIA SOYBEAN BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $230,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 20 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