AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

K250

Classification

1200

Street

2000 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW STE 5005

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 · 2024

• STATE, LOCAL AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS -WE HAVE PROGRAMS IN THE FOLLOWING REGIONS: CALIFORNIA, MIDWEST, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND, MID-ATLANTIC, PACIFIC NORTHWEST, SOUTHEAST, AND TEXAS; AND OUR NATIONAL INITIATIVES ARE: AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION INNOVATIONS, SOIL HEALTH AND CLIMATE INITIATIVE, FARMLAND INFORMATION CENTER, FARM LEGACY, FARM VIABILITY, FARMS FOR A NEW GENERATION, FEDERAL POLICY, LAND PROTECTION, NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LAND NETWORK, WATER INITIATIVE, AND WOMEN FOR THE LAND. IN 2025, AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST:- ADVANCED 88 POLICY ACTIONS ON AFT PROPOSALS TO PROTECT FARMLAND, SUPPORT FARMERS AND STRENGTHEN AGRICULTURAL VIABILITY.- GREW THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LAND NETWORK TO 1,610 MEMBERS FROM 620 ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS ALL 50 STATES.- PERMANENTLY PROTECTED 288 ACRES OF PRODUCTIVE FARMLAND AND WILDLIFE HABITAT AT SOLBAKKEN FARM IN WAUPACA COUNTY, WISCONSIN, THROUGH AN AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT.- SUPPORTED FARMER-LED SOIL HEALTH ADOPTION IN ILLINOIS THROUGH FIVE FARMER-LED ADVANCES IN SOIL HEALTH GROUPS THAT REACHED MORE THAN 60 FARMERS AND ENROLLED MORE THAN 8,000 ACRES THROUGH THE BATCH & GROW COVER CROP PROGRAM.- LAUNCHED PROSPERITY PARTNERS, A CONSULTING PROGRAM PROVIDING PROJECT-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE ON SOIL HEALTH, LAND MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION PLANNING, AGRIVOLTAICS AND FARM VIABILITY.- LED A COALITION OF 16 ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH THE PFAS AND AGRICULTURE POLICY WORKGROUP AND RELEASED THE NATION'S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE SET OF FEDERAL POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADDRESS PFAS CONTAMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND.- REACHED MORE THAN 2,080 WOMEN PRODUCERS AND LANDOWNERS ACROSS 16 STATES THROUGH WOMEN FOR THE LAND LEARNING CIRCLES.- RELEASED NEW TOOLS FOR FARMERS, LANDOWNERS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, INCLUDING THE PLANNING FOR AGRICULTURE IN VIRGINIA TOOLKIT, ACEP-ALE LANDOWNER RESOURCES AND THE FARMER PEER NETWORK TRAINING TOOLKIT.- CONTINUED TO EXPAND AFT'S LAND TRANSFER NAVIGATORS INITIATIVE, WHICH BY THE END OF 2025 HAD REACHED NEARLY 50,000 FARMERS AND RANCHERS ACROSS 30 STATES AND INFLUENCED STEWARDSHIP DECISIONS ON ALMOST 1,000 SQUARE MILES OF AGRICULTURAL LAND.- SURPASSED $5 MILLION AWARDED THROUGH THE BRIGHTER FUTURE FUND TO MORE THAN 2,000 FARMERS AND RANCHERS ACROSS ALL 50 STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES SINCE THE FUND'S LAUNCH.- DISTRIBUTED $2 MILLION IN EMERGENCY RESILIENCE GRANTS, PROVIDING $10,000 GRANTS TO 200 FARMERS AND RANCHERS IMPACTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS, AVIAN FLU OUTBREAKS AND UNEXPECTED MARKET LOSSES.- AWARDED $896,600 THROUGH REGENERATE VIRGINIA TO 38 FARMERS AND RANCHERS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING SOIL HEALTH AND LONG-TERM FARM VIABILITY.- AWARDED $753,000 THROUGH NEW ENGLAND REGENERATIVE LIVESTOCK FARMING GRANTS TO 83 PRODUCERS WORKING TO STRENGTHEN GRAZING SYSTEMS, PROTECT WATER RESOURCES AND IMPROVE SOIL HEALTH.- CONTINUED TO ADVANCE FARMLAND FOR A NEW GENERATION NEW YORK, WHICH SINCE ITS LAUNCH HAS FACILITATED 211 SUCCESSFUL MATCHES CONNECTING FARMERS WITH MORE THAN 10,600 ACRES OF FARMLAND.- CONTINUED TO BUILD MOMENTUM FOR U.S. FARMED, AFT'S CERTIFICATION AND TRANSPARENCY STANDARD VERIFYING THAT CONSUMER-PACKAGED GOODS CONTAIN AT LEAST 95% U.S.-GROWN INGREDIENTS.- CERTIFIED SIOUX HONEY ASSOCIATION CO-OP'S SUE BEE AND AUNT SUE'S BRANDS AS THE FIRST HONEY PRODUCTS IN THE NATION TO EARN AFT'S U.S. FARMED CERTIFICATION.

  Expenses $35,458,057 · Grants $7,655,950

• COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA OUTREACH -AFT CONTINUOUSLY ENGAGES THE PUBLIC THROUGH OUR DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS WITH OUR MEMBERS, DONORS, VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA OUTREACH.IN 2025, AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST:- RELEASED A BIOCHAR IN AGRICULTURE TOOLKIT AND HOSTED A NATIONAL BIOCHAR WEBINAR SERIES THAT DREW MORE THAN 12,000 VIEWS.- RELEASED TWO MAJOR SMART SOLAR REPORTS FOCUSED ON TEXAS AND WASHINGTON STATE AND PUBLISHED THE SOLAR SOIL HEALTH GUIDE TO HELP PROTECT SOIL DURING SOLAR CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION.

  Expenses $2,131,145 · Grants $3,864

• PUBLIC EDUCATION -ADVOCATE - AFT FIGHTS FOR PROGRAMS AND POLICIES THAT SAVE FARMLAND, SUPPORT FARMERS AND ENHANCE OUR ENVIRONMENT.EDUCATE - AFT EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ABOUT OUR NATION'S FARMS, FARMLAND AND FARMERS.INNOVATE - AFT PIONEERS CUTTING-EDGE TECHNIQUES THAT PROTECT FARMLAND AND PROTECT NATURAL RESOURCES.INVESTIGATE - AFT CONDUCTS RESPECTED RESEARCH AS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR PROGRAMS.COLLABORATE - AFT BUILDS COALITIONS TO ACHIEVE LARGE-SCALE SOLUTIONS AND LASTING CHANGE.IN 2025, AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST:- TRAINED OR OFFERED DIRECT SUPPORT TO 14,342 FARMERS AND RANCHERS NATIONWIDE.- TRAINED OR OFFERED DIRECT SUPPORT TO 36,444 PROFESSIONALS AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS WORKING TO SUPPORT FARMERS, RANCHERS AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES.- CONVENED FARMERS, LAND TRUSTS, PUBLIC AGENCIES, PLANNERS AND ADVOCATES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AT "SAVING AMERICA'S WORKING LANDS," A NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOCUSED ON ACCELERATING FARMLAND AND RANCHLAND PROTECTION.- ADVANCED SOIL HEALTH STEWARDSHIP THROUGH AFT'S SOIL HEALTH STEWARDS PROGRAM, WHICH OVER FIVE YEARS HAS TRAINED 239 STAFF FROM 123 LAND TRUSTS AND PUBLIC AGENCIES IN 36 STATES AND REACHED MORE THAN 260,000 PRODUCERS AND LANDOWNERS INFLUENCING 6.5 MILLION ACRES.- EXPANDED AFT'S SMART SOLAR LEADERSHIP THROUGH FARMER GUIDANCE, RESEARCH, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TOOLS DESIGNED TO KEEP AGRICULTURAL LAND IN PRODUCTION WHILE SUPPORTING RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.- LAUNCHED AGRI-TECH WITH THE NATIONAL LABORATORY OF THE ROCKIES TO PROVIDE FARMERS WITH FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ON AGRICULTURAL DUAL-USE SOLAR SYSTEMS.

  Expenses $1,774,422 · Grants $5,208 · Revenue $123,909

• OTHER PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $1,567,902 · Grants $27,694

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $48,402,808

  Expenses

  $47,009,214

  Contributions

  $46,477,116

  Grants paid

  $7,692,716

• 2023

  Revenue

  $52,095,962

  Expenses

  $44,093,608

  Contributions

  $46,981,463

  Grants paid

  $5,576,867

• 2022

  Revenue

  $34,930,764

  Expenses

  $33,252,655

  Contributions

  $33,759,252

  Grants paid

  $2,687,116

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

  $36,692,176

  Expenses

  $27,910,473

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,949,057

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $36,734,548

  Expenses

  $22,132,720

  Assets (EOY)

  $63,889,323

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $31,104,144

  Expenses

  $26,260,377

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,332,584

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,957,883

  Expenses

  $15,049,734

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,472,196

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,843,877

  Expenses

  $11,274,866

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,334,710

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,762,088

  Expenses

  $10,881,643

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,365,385

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,560,626

  Expenses

  $10,854,357

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,357,798

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,161,699

  Expenses

  $11,418,865

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,008,591

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,161,699

  Expenses

  $11,418,865

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,008,591

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,026,619

  Expenses

  $10,143,192

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,812,245

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

• INDIGO AG INC

  $1,003,290

  2024 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

  $200,000

  2024 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• CORNELL UNIVERSITY - SMALL FARMS PROGRAM

  $160,470

  2024 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• THE DRY FARMING INSTITUTE

  $157,760

  2023 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• CCOF FOUNDATION

  $155,000

  2022 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES / KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• THE FRESHWATER TRUST

  $121,600

  2023 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• BLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC

  $119,493

  2023 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• BARANSKI HAMMER & ASSOCIATES2

  $110,650

  2024 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

  $101,993

  2024 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• GROWSMART MAINE

  $100,000

  2024 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $7,589,665

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,571,720

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,550,160

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $560,189

  2023 · ADVANCING ADOPTION OF REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $537,331

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $489,047

  2024 · TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR CONSERVATION IN ILLINOIS

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $409,314

  2022 · COVER CROP ADOPTION

• SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC

  $333,630

  2025 · INVOLVEMENT IN RCPP FARMER LED PROJECT

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $200,000

  2023 · SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

• NATURE CONSERVANCY

  $175,434

  2024 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• SIGNIA LTD.

  $0 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $0 to charity

• SIGNIA LTD.

  $1,700 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$2,519 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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