Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION
TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,800 to it, the largest being WEST TN YOUNG FARMERS & HOMEMAKERS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ($13,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $150M
What Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation does
Mission
To develop, foster, promote and protect programs for the general welfare, including economic, social, educational and political well-being of farm people of the great state of tennessee.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Member services - tennessee farm bureau provides monthly accounting services including bookkeeping, financial statement preparation, fixed asset tracking, and investment tracking for 95 county farm bureaus as well as annual tax return preparation. Additional services provided include member benefits offered to all 680,000 members. Annual billing of memberships are sent and tracked by the membership department.
Communications - Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation (tfbf) leaders and members are informed through multifaceted communication efforts. The "tennessee farm bureau news" is sent to approximately 54,000 agriculture members bi-monthly and speaks to current agricultural issues. Our award-winning magazine, "tenessee home and farm, " is delivered to 690,000 plus members quarterly, educating all members about agriculture. In addition, daily radio programs, newspaper articles, podcasts, and television stories are made available to local, state and national media outlets. House-developed videos are used at training meetings as well as county meetings. Tfbf's website, blast emails, facebook, "x", and more are used to communicate about tennessee agriculture.
Special programs - leadership development is foundational to fulfilling our mission. Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation has demonstrated statewide leadership through the establishment of tennessee ag and forestry leadership program as an elite, professional development leadership training course for farmers, foresters and agriculturalists in our state. Farm bureau has trained and equipped farmer leaders, staff, and committee members with the skills needed to lead effectively while advocating for agricultural issues. Leadership development opportunities are offered through state and national annual meetings, farm bureau women, and young farmers and ranchers, as well as issue-specific and position-specific training programs. Additionally, staff conduct local training for new county presidents, boards, and committee members, while collaborating with agricultural partners to deliver regional leadership programs that strengthen informed leadership across tennessee.
Public policy - the foremost mission of tfbf is to represent the interest of farmers at local, state, national, and international levels of government. Grassroots public policy is developed by working with farmer leaders within our 95 county farm bureaus. Tfbf staff coordinates with farmer leaders to communicate and defend our policy in legislative and regulatory bodies at local, state, and national levels. We work with other state farm bureaus through our national affiliate, the american farm bureau federation, to represent our farmer members' interests on the international level. Every activity promoted by tfbf has the objective of supporting and enhancing tfbf's public policy efforts. Recent achievements in the advocacy arena include passage of tennessee farmland preservation act and increased financial investments in agriculture economic programs as well as investments in 4-h and ffa.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2024 to 2025, from $150M to $168M (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $2k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Farm Income Improvement Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION raised.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION’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
100% of TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Tennessee Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom · exempt
- Tennessee Farm Bureau Foundation · exempt
- Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation Inc (Tfbf Corporation) · corp_trust
- Tennessee Livestock Producers Inc · corp_trust
- Farmers Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: 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 TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION?
- TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,800 to it, the largest being WEST TN YOUNG FARMERS & HOMEMAKERS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ($13,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,800 in grants to TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION?
- WEST TN YOUNG FARMERS & HOMEMAKERS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $13,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE FARM BUREAU FEDERATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 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