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SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES

SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$648k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$400k
Net assets
$59k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Saving Tomorrows Agriculture Resources does

Mission

Star shall provide tools for improving and protecting natural resources unique to any geographic area, including water, soil, trees, and natural habitat, to allow for sustainable production of food, fiber, and fuel for future generations. Star will work directly with and through partners to encourage farmers, ranchers, producers, and land owners to adopt management practices shown to protect natural resources through education, networking, consulting, and coordination of technical resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Star shall provide tools for improving and protecting natural resources unique to any geographic area, including water, soil, trees, and natural habitat, to allow for sustainable production of food, fiber, and fuel for future generations. Star will work directly with and through partners to encourage farmers, ranchers, producers, and land owners to adopt management practices shown to protect natural resources through education, networking, consulting, and coordination of technical resources.

    $846,941 spent$647,711 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $846,941.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($513k) Expenses 100 ($340k) Net assets 100 ($174k)2024 Revenue 288 ($1.5M) Expenses 408 ($1.4M) Net assets 153 ($266k)2025 Revenue 126 ($648k) Expenses 252 ($855k) Net assets 34 ($59k)
202320242025
Revenue (126)Expenses (252)Net assets (34)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $476k to $204k (−57%).

$394k
$476k
$204k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$174k
’23
$92k
’24
−$207k
’25
2.9
months of
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.

Board chair

Steve Stierwalt

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed554
Joined·+0+1
No longer listed·02
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES’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.

Where its funders are

SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

AR

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES: 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 SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES?
SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $400,000 in grants to SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES?
Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAVING TOMORROWS AGRICULTURE RESOURCES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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