- Revenue 2025
- $1,431,491
- Expenses 2025
- $1,204,160
Program services were 95.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- K01
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX 709
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).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural policy and production system to support a healthier planet for the benefit of all life. Our purpose is to build and support a farmer-led national organic farmer movement and national policy platform by: developing and advocating policies that benefit organic farmers;strengthening and supporting the capacity of organic farmers and farm organizations; supporting collaboration and leadership among state, regional and national organic farmer organizations; and welcoming support and cooperation with like-minded individuals and organizations.
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EDUCATION PROGRAM ACTIVITIES ARE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT ORGANIC FARMERS SUCCESS THROUGH TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. THE NATIONAL ORGANIC FARMER EDUCATION NETWORK (NOFEN) ALERTS FARMERS TO ORGANIC EDUCATION BEING OFFERED BY ORGANIC ORGANIZATION MEMBERS NATIONWIDE. WEBINARS AND DIGITAL ORGANIC EDUCATION RESOURCES HELP EDUCATE FARMERS AND CONSUMERS ABOUT ISSUES SUCH AS CROP INSURANCE, LABOR, MARKETS, ORGANIC TRANSITION, AND MENTAL HEALTH. EDUCATION FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS ALSO A MAIN GOAL THROUGH THE WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND QUARTERLY MAGAZINE: ORGANIC VOICE. OFA ALSO CREATED AND MANAGES THE ORGANIC CAREER NETWORK TO SUPPORT ORGANIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SO THAT ORGANIC FARMERS HAVE THE SUPPORT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
Expenses $1,080,110 · Revenue $1,276,484
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Advocacy Program Activities focus on aggregating input from organic farmer members and organic farm organizations into cohesive policy statements for members to vote on before becoming part of the Policy Platform. The Policy Platform is listed online and includes proposals relating to improving organic farming certification, integrity, and fraud prevention as well as improving federal programs for organic farmers. An organic farmer advocacy day, which provides opportunities for organic farmers to meet their legislators and their staff, is organized annually in Washington, D.C.
Expenses $71,480
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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KATE MENDENHALL
EXECUTIVE DIR.
- Total calculated
- $64,800
- From this org
- $64,800
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Pryor Garnett
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jesse Buie
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Bob Keatley
Member-at-Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rebekah Weber
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sara Tashker
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ken Kimes
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dave Campbell
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jenn Halpin
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Shawn Peebles
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Matthew Fitzgerald
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Doug Murphy
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Steve Ela
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
De'Anthony Price
Council Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $1,431,491
- Expenses
- $1,204,160
- Contributions
- $1,407,628
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,529,179
- Expenses
- $1,223,051
- Contributions
- $1,527,929
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $924,363
- Expenses
- $742,511
- Contributions
- $924,298
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $359,245
- Expenses
- $249,204
- Contributions
- $359,245
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $359,245
- Expenses
- $249,204
- Contributions
- $359,245
- 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
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2025 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $263,180
- Expenses
- $137,938
- Assets (EOY)
- $135,745
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020
- Tax period
- 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
- Principal officer
- Katherine A Mendenhall
- Mailing address
- PO Box 709Spirit Lake IA 51360
- Website
- www.OrganicFarmersAssociation.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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$10,000
2024 FA24 EOY GRANT: TACS FOR ORGANIC FARMERS ASSOCIATION
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2025 return
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501 (C) (3) · IMPROVE HEALTH THROUGH ORGANIC LEADERSHI · PA
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.