Nonprofit · EIN 36-3431212
FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC
Tax-exempt · SAINT PAUL, MN 55102
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $814,553 | $914,553 | -$100,000 | $936,273 | $48,076 | $888,197 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $897,336 | $795,204 | $102,132 | $712,003 | $63,824 | $648,179 |
| December 31, 2022 | 990 | $826,896 | $721,261 | $105,635 | $399,333 | $50,383 | $348,950 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $594,501
- of which government grants
- $279,294
- Program service revenue
- $219,543
- Investment income
- $509
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $364,250
- Other salaries and wages
- $170,214
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $645,694
- Professional fundraising fees
- $38,500
- Accounting fees
- $37,561
- Occupancy
- $25,204
- Travel
- $30,437
- Program services (functional)
- $519,865
- Management and general (functional)
- $247,185
- Fundraising (functional)
- $147,503
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $712,003
- Total assets, end of year
- $936,273
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $48,076
- Net assets, end of year
- $888,197
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $858,197
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $30,000
- Gross receipts
- $814,553
- Employees
- 6
- Volunteers
- 8
- Year formed
- 1986
- State of legal domicile
- MN
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Carlson | Executive Director Officer | 45 | $188,781 |
| James Carpenter | Deputy Director/Senior Staff Attorney Key employee | 40 | $175,469 |
| Terry VanDerPol | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Lois Wood | Secretary / Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Schneider | Board Member Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Benny Bunting | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Thomas Mitchell | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dania Davy | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Stu Lourey | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 8 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Carlson | Executive Director Officer | 45 | $135,980 |
| Terry VanDerPol | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Lois Wood | Secretary / Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Schneider | Board Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Benny Bunting | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Thomas Mitchell | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dania Davy | Board member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Stu Lourey | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2022: 6 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Carlson | Executive Director Highest-paid employee | 45 | $99,979 | $11,650 |
| Terry Vanderpool | Board President Trustee or director, Key employee | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lois Wood | Board Secretary Treasurer Trustee or director, Key employee | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Benny Bunting | Board member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Thomas Mitchell | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Susan Schneider | Board member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 6 5TH ST W STE 650, SAINT PAUL, MN 55102-1440
- In care of
- % SCOTT CARLSON
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Scott Carlson, 6 5th St W Ste 650, Saint Paul, MN 55102
- Signed the 990
- Scott Carlson, Executive Director
- Phone
- (651) 223-5400
- Website
- www.flaginc.com
- Return prepared by
- Abdo LLP
Mission
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which operates a law center that provides legal services and support to America's family farmers and their communities to help keep farmers on the land.
Program accomplishments
- During the entirety of 2024, FLAG also continued operating its national Family Farmer Legal Assistance Hotline and answered calls from across the United States on a broad range of issues including bankruptcy; farm business issues; contracts; crop insurance; disaster assistance; discrimination; private and USDA Farm Service Agency credit/lending issues; farmland access; farm family probate/wills/estates matters; farmer-lender mediation; federal support and relief programs, rules, and regulations; appeals of adverse federal agency decisions; foreclosures; landlord/tenant disputes; property rights; and other issues. During this year, FLAG attorneys conducted nineteen trainings attended by more than 600 farmers, farm advocates, attorneys, and other interested individuals. Topics included farm borrowers' rights, federal farm programs, farm credit, and other pressing legal issues facing farmers throughout the year. FLAG attorneys also published a 256-page Farmers' Guide to Minnesota Lending Law.During 2024, FLAG held five free Continuing Legal Education classes for attorneys, and four professional development educational sessions for agricultural professionals in Minnesota. In total, 247 agricultural professionals attended the professional development educational series.The aim of these two series was to give rural attorneys, and agricultural professionals who assist farmers, knowledge of agricultural/farm lending law, so they can know what practices farmers should follow to obtain and maintain access to credit, and to know borrowers' rights and options when disputes over credit and lending occur. Free legal, or farmer peer support, services are a key component of helping financially distressed farmers in Minnesota. Farmers experiencing occupational stress or behavioral or mental health issues invariably have legal, business, financial or credit problems requiring the services of an attorney or peer supporter. Such legal problems significantly compound, and are often the cause of, significant stress and behavioral problems. Access to lawyers helps resolve those problems, which reduces farmer stress and helps get the farm back to relatively normal operations.Unfortunately, it has become an increasingly acute problem that most Minnesota farmers do not have access to adequate legal representation, especially involving debt disputes, borrowers' rights, and other matters related to farm credit and lending law. Meanwhile, banks and lenders are well represented by sophisticated attorneys, leaving a very uneven playing field for financially troubled and stressed farm families.To increase the number of rural Minnesota attorneys representing farmers in financial disputes with lenders, or in other similar adversarial situations, FLAG offered free CLEs on Minnesota agricultural/farm lending law. In collaboration with the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, FLAG developed and delivered educational materials and a series of four free live, interactive Continuing Legal Education webinars, including free CLE credits for attorneys, along with archived on-demand videos of those webinars.The CLEs and CLE materials provided attorneys representing farmers in adversarial disputes the tools they need to stand up for farm families and ensure that farmers' rights are heard and protected, especially at vulnerable times for farm families experiencing financial and mental or behavioral distress.FLAG's website, and the Farmers' Guides hosted there, were accessed by thousands of unique visitors during the year.Expenses $519,865 · revenue $219,543
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 36-3431212
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1986
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $936,273
- Income (IRS master file)
- $814,553
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $814,553 | $914,553 | $936,273 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $897,336 | $795,204 | $712,003 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $826,896 | $721,261 | $399,333 | XML |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2017 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 36-3431212).
Questions about FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC
- What is the EIN of FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC is 36-3431212.
- Is FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1986.
- Are donations to FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Scott Carlson.
- Who are the officers and directors of FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 9 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $188,781 (Scott Carlson, Executive Director).
- How much revenue does FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $814,553, expenses of $914,553 and total assets of $936,273 at year end.
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