Iowa · Nonprofit
THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK
THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,500 to it, the largest being IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $318k
- Net assets
- $11k
What The Global Farmer Network does
Mission
Social Welfare Purposes: To educate Americans of the benefits of expanding trade and to promote technological advances in agriculture.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Accounting fees
$1,540 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,540.
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 2020 to 2021, from $307k to $12k (−96%).
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.
0% of THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Reg Clause
Chair/Pres/Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $70k → $40k.
From the IRS filings of THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK’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
THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 60% · 2021 75% · 2022 55% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
71% of THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK's grant income comes from Iowa 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.
Against its field
THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,359 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,359 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK: 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 THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK?
- THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,500 to it, the largest being IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $317,500 in grants to THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK?
- IOWA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 6 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