Iowa · Nonprofit
WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK
WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $828,940 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY ($385,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $829k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Solutions Project Incshared funders
- Farm Aid Incportfolio match
- Center for Rural Affairsportfolio match
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.
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 75% · 2018 81% · 2019 90% · 2020 48% · 2021 54% · 2022 54% · 2023 24% · 2024 90% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $64k → $104k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE 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
WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 44% · 2019 72% · 2020 38% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 48% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK'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
63% of WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $305k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $524k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Solutions Project Incshared fundersCA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Farm Aid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Rural Affairsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agricultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Certified Organicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Farmers Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Globetrotter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lydia B Stokes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $787k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$787k
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 WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK?
- WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $828,940 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY ($385,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $828,940 in grants to WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $385,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE 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.
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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing