Missouri Farm Bureau Federation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 440356250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jefferson City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5738931400
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,396,076
- Expenses
- $5,193,977
- Assets
- $27,476,627
- Liabilities
- $1,725,768
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES GARRETT HAWKINS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JANA OLIVER (TREASURER): $1,234,023 total reported compensation
- JAMES GARRETT HAWKINS (PRESIDENT): $469,982 total reported compensation
- ANDREW BLAKE ROLLINS (SECRETARY): $293,348 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To represent, protect, promote and improve the economic, social, educational, health and religious interest of the farmers in Missouri.
What it reported doing in 2024
Legislative programs & policy developmentmissouri farm bureau's legislative staff members represent the interests of Missouri farm bureau members every day on national and state policy issues. Mfb has an impressive list of accomplishments including bringing better roads to rural Missouri, removing the state sales tax on farm machinery, limiting the growth of state taxes for all missourians, preserving the rights of property owners, working to prevent unreasonable government regulations, and much more. Mfb policy positions are determined by the thousands of missourians who are its members. The resolutions committee meets each year in june to consider current issues and questions for the policy questionnaire that appears in the july issue of show me Missouri farm bureau magazine. County farm bureaus review member responses and submit policy recommendations to the resolutions committee. In october, the resolutions committee reviews county recommendations and prepares tentative policy resolutions. At the state annual meeting in december, voting delegates representing county farm bureaus offer amendments from the delegate floor. Delegates vote on all existing and amended policy resolutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.29; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.