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Alliance for Low Input Sustainable
A-LIST IS AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT, INDUSTRY INITIATIVE THAT SEEKS TO MOVE THE DIRECTION OF TURFGRASS BREEDING TOWARD SUSTAINABLE VARIETIES THAT PERFORM THEIR INTENDED FUNCTION WITH FEWER OR MINIMAL MAINTENANCE INPUTS, THUS BENEFITING THE ENVIRONMENT.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ohio State University Dept of Hort | $20,000 |
| Olds College Alberta Turfgrass Res | $14,161 |
| Pinnacle Ag Research Center | $10,000 |
| Oregon State University Ag Life | $10,000 |
| Virginia Tech University | $10,000 |
| Purdue Horticulture Landscape Arc | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TPTurfgrass Producers International3× · 2019–2021 · $22k · revenue +55%
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +8%- VGVIRGINIA GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +104%
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONPLANT AND SOIL SCIENCE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Purpose is to foster research, education, and dissemination of information on turfgrass so as to benefit the people of iowa and the environment.
Research in golf turf care and items that effect the health and well being of the grass on golf cources.
Research, education and promotion of the turfgrass industry.
To promote the study of horticulture and agronomy as it pertains to golf course management.
The association encourages and sponsors adoption of uniform and effective fertilizer inspection techniques by all member agencies, throughout the united states, canada and puerto rico. this includes encouraging and sponsoring the most…
Turfgrass research
support college golf schorships and education programs
The iowa brewers guild is organized and operated exclusively for non-profit purposes. the association is organized to unify craft brewing professionals, promote iowa beer, and advocate for the industrys growth. the ibg engages in…
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Turfgrass Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Turfgrass Producers International ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY TURFGRASS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TURFGRASS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Agricultural Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Turfgrass Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN TURFGRASS FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alliance for Low Input Sustainable funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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