Minnesota · Nonprofit
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,115,939 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($8,135,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Regenerative Agriculture Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation is to foster the economic, policy, and knowledge conditions that support land stewardship, provide climate solutions, protect freshwater and oceans, advance a just economy, support thriving rural communities, and sustain diverse human and ecological life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The soil health opportunities & tools (shot) fund is a new initiative that aims to fill gaps in conservation funding and put a thumb on the scale to advance the most durable regenerative practices and foster community-led agricultural change.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Raf created the restoring regenerative agriculture program in an effort to bring an expansive lens to regenerative agriculture funding by celebrating the contributions that food and farming organizations in underserved communities are making toward truly regenerative food systems. The program has had 3 rounds of awards to 46 organizations to date, with additional support offered to organizations for optional ongoing collaborative projects. Awarded projects include buffalo reintroduction on tribal lands, seed and land rematriation, and traditional farming through collective governance.
$4,483,236 spent$106,217 earned by the program100% of program spendingThis program includes our farm bill grassroots capacity building project, a collaboration between raf, national sustainable agriculture coalition, and rafi-usa, initially launched with generous support from waverley street foundation. While having a focus on advancing agricultural policies that address conservation and social disparities, this effort takes a broad perspective in supporting policy organizing, and includes several funds governed by peer and participatory processes. To date, 86 organizations have received rapid response policy engagement grants. An additional 41 organizations have received climate and equity policy project grants. Both processes are peer-led and participatory, with facilitative leadership provided by raf and rafi respectively.
This funding focus area includes our work via the shot fund, as well as other grants relating to organizational capacity building. A partnership with rural climate partnership, the shot fund supports durable, transformative, and climate-smart farming practices, emphasizing opportunities in the midwest, southeast and southwest. The priority of the shot fund has been to provide on-the-ground organizations with grants and technical assistance that allows them to submit and administer federal grants.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,483,236.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $8.4M (+296%).
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.
98% of REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Mark Muller
Executive director
Board chair
Sallie Calhoun
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 20 funders, grant income rose $75k → $5.2M.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 39% — 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
56% of REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 61% 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
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 268 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like REGENERATIVE 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION?
- REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,115,939 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($8,135,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $23,115,939 in grants to REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 38 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