Annies Project-education for Farm Women

What it reported doing in 2025

Facilitator Training and Program Delivery: six training programs in 2025 added approximately 100 facilitators from 22 States, who in turn conducted 42 Annie's Project Programs in 20 states reaching 933 participants. Average size class was 22 participants. APEFW moved to online delivery for training and program delivery. Program delivery to participants was a combination of in person and online delivery. Online delivery includes podcast, and webinars. Other programs for 2025: Rural Resiliency Project and Cultivating Resiliency Program in collaboration with various organizations and Ag Stress Management Webinars, Suicide Prevention Training in cooperation with Farm Veteran Coalition. Annie's Project participated in Nebraska Women in Ag bookclub, and other programs where Annie's Project CEOs were invited to present and share the Annie's Project Program with their audiences. Webinars on a variety of subjects were recorded and are available through Annie's Project YouTube Channel. Annie's Project YouTube Channel contains all of Annie's Projects on-line national programs and are available to the public. Total education contacts in 2025 were 3465. All numbers combined represent 4,398 educational contacts in 2025. These numbers do not reflect our social media on Face Book and LinkedIn where another 5,000 "fans" have joined our pages. In 2023 Annie's Project entered a partnership with USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) on a project called "Building Resiliency with a More Diverse Delivery Strategy, the Under-Served Agent/Loss Adjuster Training Program Pilot Program" It aimed to reach producers and individuals that had a livelihood in the space of agriculture. This collaborative pilot program's strategic engagement with minority-serving institutions and under served stakeholder groups established a pipeline of crop insurance agents and adjusters within the under served communities. The intent of the program was to increase the representation of insurance agents and loss adjusters providing service to under served producers. From 2023 and through March of 2025, Annie's Project enrolled 7 agents preparing for their licenses, 3 completed getting/renewing their licenses, and 21 crop insurance adjusters in training for their certification and job interviews with Approved Insurance Providers (AIP). Two agents were hired by local Approved Insurance Providers. Other deliverables for this project 1) Annie's Project invited all AIP's to participate in a meeting to answer questions on agents and adjusters. The following participated in sessions: Advanced Ag Protection, Rain & Hail, Crop Risk Services, Hudson, Agri-Sompo, Federal Crop Insurance Corp. We connected with 14 people from AIPs and National Crop Insurance Services. We also connected with Great American Insurance who reached out to us. We directly connected with 15 different people with seven different AIPs. 2) All adjuster candidates were provided support in resume & interview skills by Annie's Project staff. Some participated in the live workshop. All were provided with written materials from workshop (21 total) 3) Provided training and one-on-one connections to develop business plans, goals and market plans. Participants either participated live or via recording. We provided training for people with Annie's (29 people) and our partners. 4) Annie's Project hosted a Q & A session for participants to learn more about being an Agent or Adjuster from people who worked for or with AIPs. Potential adjusters had follow-up connections through National Crop Insurance Services job fairs. This project ended Mid-February of 2025. The resources we developed through the project continued to be used through 2025. The project's agreement number is 2022-RMAPILOT-2. Crop Insurance Education for the Under-served is a second partnership with Risk Management Agency where Annie's Project delivered 7 podcast covering topics of Why Do I Need Crop Insurance, How to Choose and Agent, Crop Rain/Hail Stand Along Poli

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
• Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $25.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 49.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings