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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by MAD AGRICULTURE.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,534,101
Total expenses
$2,389,685
Contributions and grants received
$2,290,251
Grants paid
$391,896
Program service revenue
$203,658
Investment income
$19,727
Other revenue
$20,465
Total assets, end of year
$1,791,096
Total liabilities, end of year
$23,349
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,767,747
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,841,911
Management and general expenses
$411,968
Fundraising expenses
$135,806
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,841,911

Program services were 77.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $9,985

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $308,213

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,972,053

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Farm Consulting Services

    total $126,275 · related or exempt $126,275 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Farm Market Access Support

    total $40,620 · related or exempt $40,620 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Farm Ecosystem Research

    total $30,588 · related or exempt $30,588 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Marketing support for Regenerative Businesses

    total $6,175 · related or exempt $6,175 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2e · Program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $19,727 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $19,727

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $0

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $12,568

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $12,568 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Credit Card Rewards - Reduction of Statement Balance Credit

    total $7,897 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $7,897

  • 11b · Other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11c · Other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $7,897

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $370,590 · program services $370,590

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $21,306 · program services $21,306

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $880,664 · program services $655,860 · management and general $152,575 · fundraising $72,229

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $471,972 · program services $351,494 · management and general $81,769 · fundraising $38,709

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $23,484 · program services $15,651 · management and general $5,933 · fundraising $1,900

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $29,717 · program services $11,824 · management and general $16,568 · fundraising $1,325

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $124,677 · program services $84,713 · management and general $31,018 · fundraising $8,947

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $24,404 · program services $24,404 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $29,793 · program services $0 · management and general $29,793 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $120,500 · program services $119,928 · management and general $0 · fundraising $571

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $7,018 · program services $5,724 · management and general $867 · fundraising $427

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $71,161 · program services $62,336 · management and general $8,002 · fundraising $823

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $21,419 · program services $6,575 · management and general $13,921 · fundraising $923

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $43,026 · program services $3,761 · management and general $39,265 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $113,282 · program services $96,225 · management and general $8,277 · fundraising $8,780

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $16,517 · program services $11,324 · management and general $4,021 · fundraising $1,172

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $12,172 · program services $0 · management and general $12,172 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $7,983 · program services $196 · management and general $7,787 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 26 · Joint costs (an allocation of the lines above)

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $364,953 · end of year $349,909

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $420,181 · end of year $570,494

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $35,000

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $142,744

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $2,082 · end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $57,236

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $28,967

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $35,391 · end of year $28,269

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $661,250

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $13,070 · end of year $3,430

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $5,411

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $411 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $13,074 · end of year $17,938

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $822,192 · end of year $1,767,748

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Mad Agricultures mission is to create a regenerative revolution in agriculture. Regenerative agriculture is a place-based relational approach to farming that restores soil health increases biodiversity and renews the ecological cultural and economic vitality of working lands. It draws from many traditions including scientific and ancestral to heal relationships between people land and the systems that sustain us.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Mad Agriculture catalyzes farmers transition to organic and regenerative agriculture with systemic and individual support.

  • Regenerative Catalyst Fund: The Regenerative Catalyst Fund RCF is a nationwide program designed to help farmers implement regenerative and organic practices on their land. The fund aims to provide financial and technical assistance to farmers who are committed to transitioning from conventional farming practices to regenerative agriculture methods. The program is designed to be highly accessible and flexible facilitating a farmers move from design to action by covering the costs of inputs equipment labor and expert consultation. In 2024 Mad Agriculture provided $391,896 across 37 projects that impacted 122,799 acres of land. This program is supported by a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant CIG and is poised to become a major resource for the farmers ranchers and land stewards Mad Agriculture supports in our work.

    Expenses $524,519 · Grants $391,896 · Revenue $796,711

  • Mad Lands: Our Mad Land and Business team provides comprehensive support to farmers ranchers and land stewards through thought partnership business strategy financial assistance network connection and access to other regenerative experts. We specialize in annual and perennial system design with expertise in agroforestry grazing staple crops and wilding. Our team offers guidance in holistic management enterprise budgeting and regenerative organic transitions ensuring that farmers have the strategic tools to build resilient operations. We support project design and management while connecting farmers with technical assistance for implementation. Additionally we provide access to financial assistance through Mad Ags internal Regenerative Catalyst Fund RCF Restore Colorado and grant identification and writing support ensuring that regenerative projects receive the resources needed to thrive. In 2024 we began two major projects with wide ranging benefits and great potential for regeneration our Wilding Program and Bison Project with the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in Oklahoma. In 2024 we piloted the program on 4 farms in 3 states with 110 acres of newly perennialized diverse plantings adjacent to annual cropland. The bison project aims to restore native prairies and expand bison herds in and around Concho Oklahoma in partnership with Collaborative Earth and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

    Expenses $467,008 · Revenue $533,571

  • Mad Media: The revolution in agriculture must be irresistible and it requires a movement of people businesses and land to create a new system. Our media work is igniting engagement in the regenerative movement by sharing its stories. Through a variety of storytelling mediums we are helping to explore and create the new agrarian culture. In these efforts we are dedicated to living the questions trusting that in the living we will find the answers. The art that we promote illuminates a connection to place to ecology and to a community of food. We lift up new voices. We spotlight the work of farmers who take radical and thoughtful approaches to their work. The Mad Agriculture Journal continued to serve as a cornerstone of MAD!s storytelling in2024 offering a biannual collection of essays photography and interviews that celebrate the people practices and philosophies driving the regenerative movement. Across the country our team hosted 17 Mad Agriculture events and spoke at 35 industry gatherings sharing insights with over 6,000 people in person. In 2024 Mad Media created Cultivating Conservation a dynamic storytelling platform that highlights the critical role of USDA conservation programs in supporting farmers and ranchers across the nation. The platform blends data with farmers stories to showcase the impact of these programs amplify the voices of regenerative farmers and allow viewers to explore both the quantitative and qualitative realities of leveraging USDA conservation dollars towards regeneration.

    Expenses $399,128 · Revenue $54,217

  • Other program services were aggregated and added to line 4d to ensure total in line 4e ties to total in part IX. These programs include farm consulting.

    Expenses $451,256

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Philip Taylor

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $196,563
    From this org
    $183,061
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,502
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $183,061
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,502
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,000
    Filer's total
    $196,563

  • Tanner Starbard

    CHIEF OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $159,721
    From this org
    $146,971
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,750
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,971
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,750
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,000
    Filer's total
    $159,721

  • Haley Baron

    CHIEF OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $151,854
    From this org
    $139,358
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,496
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,358
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,496
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,000
    Filer's total
    $151,854

  • Jane Cavagnero

    CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $136,850
    From this org
    $124,467
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,383
    Hours/week
    45

  • Elizabeth Candelario

    CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $130,553
    From this org
    $118,353
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,200
    Hours/week
    45

  • Jonnah Perkins

    DIRECTOR OF MEDIA

    Total calculated
    $112,819
    From this org
    $110,858
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,961
    Hours/week
    45

  • Mark Retzloff

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS - Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina Owens

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS - Clerk

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robbie Vitrano

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS - Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

  • Fitzgerald Family Farms

    $77,729

    For the establishment of perennial ecological zones on farmland and the advancement of farm management tracking systems to enhance organic certification procedures and management efficiencies

  • ZAFA WINES

    $35,000

    Operational support and bridge financing to help business process inventory into marketable formats

  • Zero Foodprint

    $30,000

    Contribution to a small portfolio of perennial plantings for carbon accrual and ecological benefit in the Pacific Northwest region

  • Wild Wellspring Farm

    $29,000

    Perennial plantings for pollination and wind protection and a contribution towards crop zone fencing to manage elk pressure

  • Lineage Seeds

    $20,000

    Contribution to the purchase of a buried cistern to enhance irrigation efficiencies and distribution systems

  • Grama Grass and Livestock

    $20,000

    To support the hiring of an employee that increases the number of grazing-as-a-service partnerships

  • A Frame Farm

    $18,000

    To establish perennial plantings and ecological corridors on farmland as part of a Wilding pilot

  • KILT FARMS

    $15,571

    Contribution to a soil amendment program involving compost and trace mineral balancing

  • JOIA FOOD FARM

    $14,410

    Contribution towards the purchase of additional mobile fencing and other mobile grazing equipment for holistic managed grazing practices

  • Nettle Valley Farm

    $10,000

    Contribution towards the purchase of additional mobile fencing and other mobile grazing equipment for holistic managed grazing practices

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202523219349310232

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