FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

6 5TH ST W STE 650

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 650). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• FLAG SPECIAL PROJECTS INC

  EIN 52-2228997

Mission and programs · 2024

• During the entirety of 2024, FLAG also continued operating its national Family Farmer Legal Assistance Hotline and answered calls from across the United States on a broad range of issues including bankruptcy; farm business issues; contracts; crop insurance; disaster assistance; discrimination; private and USDA Farm Service Agency credit/lending issues; farmland access; farm family probate/wills/estates matters; farmer-lender mediation; federal support and relief programs, rules, and regulations; appeals of adverse federal agency decisions; foreclosures; landlord/tenant disputes; property rights; and other issues. During this year, FLAG attorneys conducted nineteen trainings attended by more than 600 farmers, farm advocates, attorneys, and other interested individuals. Topics included farm borrowers' rights, federal farm programs, farm credit, and other pressing legal issues facing farmers throughout the year. FLAG attorneys also published a 256-page Farmers' Guide to Minnesota Lending Law.During 2024, FLAG held five free Continuing Legal Education classes for attorneys, and four professional development educational sessions for agricultural professionals in Minnesota. In total, 247 agricultural professionals attended the professional development educational series.The aim of these two series was to give rural attorneys, and agricultural professionals who assist farmers, knowledge of agricultural/farm lending law, so they can know what practices farmers should follow to obtain and maintain access to credit, and to know borrowers' rights and options when disputes over credit and lending occur. Free legal, or farmer peer support, services are a key component of helping financially distressed farmers in Minnesota. Farmers experiencing occupational stress or behavioral or mental health issues invariably have legal, business, financial or credit problems requiring the services of an attorney or peer supporter. Such legal problems significantly compound, and are often the cause of, significant stress and behavioral problems. Access to lawyers helps resolve those problems, which reduces farmer stress and helps get the farm back to relatively normal operations.Unfortunately, it has become an increasingly acute problem that most Minnesota farmers do not have access to adequate legal representation, especially involving debt disputes, borrowers' rights, and other matters related to farm credit and lending law. Meanwhile, banks and lenders are well represented by sophisticated attorneys, leaving a very uneven playing field for financially troubled and stressed farm families.To increase the number of rural Minnesota attorneys representing farmers in financial disputes with lenders, or in other similar adversarial situations, FLAG offered free CLEs on Minnesota agricultural/farm lending law. In collaboration with the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, FLAG developed and delivered educational materials and a series of four free live, interactive Continuing Legal Education webinars, including free CLE credits for attorneys, along with archived on-demand videos of those webinars.The CLEs and CLE materials provided attorneys representing farmers in adversarial disputes the tools they need to stand up for farm families and ensure that farmers' rights are heard and protected, especially at vulnerable times for farm families experiencing financial and mental or behavioral distress.FLAG's website, and the Farmers' Guides hosted there, were accessed by thousands of unique visitors during the year.

  Expenses $519,865 · Revenue $219,543

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $814,553

  Expenses

  $914,553

  Contributions

  $594,501

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $897,336

  Expenses

  $795,204

  Contributions

  $889,153

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $826,896

  Expenses

  $721,261

  Contributions

  $826,896

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $518,640

  Expenses

  $574,411

  Assets (EOY)

  $316,854

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $359,290

  Expenses

  $666,887

  Assets (EOY)

  $457,015

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $389,341

  Expenses

  $577,651

  Assets (EOY)

  $680,784

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,042,010

  Expenses

  $551,895

  Assets (EOY)

  $865,154

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $600,797

  Expenses

  $525,366

  Assets (EOY)

  $380,630

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $636,696

  Expenses

  $538,395

  Assets (EOY)

  $284,353

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $272,768

  Expenses

  $618,957

  Assets (EOY)

  $218,509

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $747,362

  Expenses

  $673,998

  Assets (EOY)

  $562,163

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $711,579

  Expenses

  $820,077

  Assets (EOY)

  $525,428

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,052,643

  Assets (EOY)

  $642,621

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• RURAL COALITION

  $120,000

  2023 · Outreach and Training Program

• FARM AID INC

  $80,000

  2022 · TAKING ACTION TO CHANGE SYSTEM

• FARM AID INC

  $30,000

  2023 · HELPING FARMER THRIVE

• FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2024 · ANTITRUST FELLOWSHIP

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