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MAD AGRICULTURE

EIN 84-2223405 BOULDER, CO

Revenue 2024
$2,534,101
Expenses 2024
$2,389,685

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K19
Classification
1000
Street
728 PEARL ST

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

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.

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.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,534,101
    Expenses
    $2,389,685
    Contributions
    $2,290,251
    Grants paid
    $391,896
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,518,701
    Expenses
    $2,107,083
    Contributions
    $2,271,215
    Grants paid
    $77,563
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,653,793
    Expenses
    $2,225,633
    Contributions
    $1,541,695
    Grants paid
    $66,239

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
    $2,209,481
    Expenses
    $1,739,803
    Assets (EOY)
    $946,598

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,177,777
    Expenses
    $829,617
    Assets (EOY)
    $452,539

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.

Grants made

  • Fitzgerald Family Farms

    $77,729

    2024 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

    2024 Operational support and bridge financing to help business process inventory into marketable formats

  • Zero Foodprint

    $30,000

    2024 Contribution to a small portfolio of perennial plantings for carbon accrual and ecological benefit in the Pacific Northwest region

  • Wild Wellspring Farm

    $29,000

    2024 Perennial plantings for pollination and wind protection and a contribution towards crop zone fencing to manage elk pressure

  • Grama Grass and Livestock

    $20,000

    2024 To support the hiring of an employee that increases the number of grazing-as-a-service partnerships

  • GRAMA GRASS & LIVESTOCK

    $20,000

    2023 Regenerative livestock management and ecological monitoring

  • Lineage Seeds

    $20,000

    2024 Contribution to the purchase of a buried cistern to enhance irrigation efficiencies and distribution systems

  • A Frame Farm

    $18,000

    2024 To establish perennial plantings and ecological corridors on farmland as part of a Wilding pilot

  • PL88 FARM

    $15,819

    2023 Agricultural well installation

  • KILT FARMS

    $15,571

    2024 Contribution to a soil amendment program involving compost and trace mineral balancing

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

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Grants received

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.