Iowa · Nonprofit
PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA
PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,118,083 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($3,632,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Practical Farmers of Iowa does
Mission
Equipping farmers to build resilient farms and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Practical Farmers of Iowa (pfi) worked with 67 farmers to conduct 100 on-farm research and demonstration projects on conventional and organic row crop operations, horticultural farms, and grazing systems. These research projects help farmers directly answer questions they have about their farms, and they offer opportunities to learn from others' experiences. Pfi hosts approximately 250 events, including field days, workshops, webinars, and other outreach events every year. Pfi facilitates cost-share programs to reduce barriers farmers face in making changes on their farms. As a result of farmer-led research, education, and programs to reduce barriers to meet their goals, farmers in iowa and across the midwest are making changes in their operations to increase their profitability, efficiency, and stewardship.
$19,147,979 spent$78,299 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,147,979.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.5M to $14M (+59%).
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 43% · 2018 24% · 2019 61% · 2020 37% · 2021 44% · 2022 27% · 2023 43% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Worley Sally
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $132k → $4.3M.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
38% 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 PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 59% · 2019 70% · 2020 40% · 2021 51% · 2022 48% · 2023 55% — 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
47% of PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $859k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$6.3M
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.9M
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 PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA?
- PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,118,083 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($3,632,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $14,118,083 in grants to PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,632,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 35 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