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Cooperative League of the United States of America

Ncba clusa is the apex association for all co-ops in the u.s.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$226k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MFood & Nutrition$640kEnvironment$298kCommunity Improvement$92kEmployment$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $554,627, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,135,753 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,581,126 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $495k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUERTO RICO COFFEE ROASTERS$225,814
PRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO$209,389
JUST RESULTSLLC$60,000
UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO ESTACIN EXPERIMENTAL AGRICOLA$45,813
SUSTAINCERT USA INC$7,393
LA LIGA DE COOPERATIVAS DE PUERTO RICO$6,218
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUSTAINCERT USA INC: $61k → 11%SUSTAINCERT USA INC: $32k → 8%AGROECOLOGY COMMONS: $20k → 9%CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 16%NETWORK FOR DEVELOPING CONSCIOUS COMMUNITIES: $19k → 14%COMMON GROUND PRODUCERS AND GROWERS MOBILE MKT: $20k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC DBA CO-OP CINCY: $20k → 16%KENTUCKY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $19k → 13%EMPUCATE INTERNATIONAL INC: $20k → 15%SUSTAINCERT USA INC: $7k → 11%CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 16%JUST RESULTSLLC: $60k → 14%UJAMAA FARMER COLLECTIVE ASSN: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
OH
CA
KY
DE
KS
DC

Grants abroad, by region: $2.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $1.9M to organizations and $316k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$1.3M · 57% · 36 grants

Stated purpose: PURCHASE OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIES SUCH AS PLASTIC HARVESTER CRATES, AMMONIUM SULFATE, SULPOMAG PREMIUM BAG, WHITE SACKS, YEAST, ZINC SULFATE · SUBAWARD APASEM SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE · PURCHASE OF INPUTS FOR SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION COMMITTED UNDER COINVESTMENT AGREEMENTS

East Asia and the Pacific$927k · 42% · 4 grants · 34011 people

Stated purpose: DELIVERING ON-THE-GROUND TECHNICAL SUPPORT · DELIVERING ON-THE-GROUND TECHNICAL SUPPORT, FINALIZE OF NURSERY SEEDLING PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION · FARMER ASSISTANCE (MUSHROOM FARMERS)

Central America and the Caribbean$21k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES FOR THE COMBO GRANTS TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO BENEFICIARIES

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 5 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$1.8M
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

40%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Community ImprovementFood & NutritionHuman ServicesSocial ScienceHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PD
    PRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · 69% of their budget
  • PR
    Puerto Rico Coffee Roaster
    2× · 2024–2025 · $492k
  • UD
    UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO ESTACIN EXPERIMENTAL AGRICOLA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $84k

Funded once

  • PL
    PARA LA NATURALEZA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $198k · revenue 0%
  • SU
    SUSTAINCERT USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • EI
    EMPUCATE INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Creation of Cooperation

Creating a cooperative culture

Education
2
Sustainable Growers
—
3
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
4
Coalition On Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

The c-agg multi-stakeholder coalition builds sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation capacity that accelerates change across organizations, sectors and regions.

—
5
Coalicion de Pequenos Agricultores En California

Mission Dedicated to empowering farmworkers and low-income individuals through comprehensive economic development and social services, fostering equitable opportunities and sustainable growth. We strive to create supportive communities…

—
6
Renewing Community Inc

Community development and agricultural training

Community Improvement
7
Northwest Farms to Families

The NWF2F DBA Minority Growers Collective is a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit founded in February of 2021 to meet the education, training, and financial assistance needs of agricultural growers and producers of color and meet the needs of…

Food & Nutrition
8
Colectivo Arbol Inc

The mission is to provide farmers with low income, food, health resources and education

—
9
Wakulima Usa

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…

Food & Nutrition
10
Building Carbon

Through community partnerships in ecuador, building carbon scales up regenerative agroforestry through farmer training and advances the state of the art of bamboo building technology through r&d. we are built on partnerships and…

Environment
11
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

—
12
Changing Narratives Africa

We accelerate African entrepreneurs to start and scale resilient and sustainable agribusinesses that feed Africa and the world by providing training, funding opportunities, trade linkages, and fostering a vibrant community of changemakers.…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Inc; the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO INC: $1,123,380 · Human ServicesPRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO INCPuerto Rico Coffee Roaster: $491,735 · OtherPuerto Rico Coffee RoasterUNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO ESTACIN EXPERIMENTAL AGRICOLA: $84,273 · OtherUNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO ESTACIN EXPE…SUSTAINCERT USA INC: $68,389 · OtherSUSTAINCERT USA INCJUST RESULTSLLC: $60,000 · OtherJUST RESULTSLLCSUSTAINCERT USA INC: $31,976 · Other+3 more: $42,387 · Other+3 morePARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $197,994 · EnvironmentPARA LA N…COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFUNDACION BUCARABON INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementUJAMAA FARMER COLLECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Community ImprovementAgroecology Commons: $20,000 · Food & NutritionKENTUCKY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $18,530 · Food & NutritionCOMMON GROUND PRODUCERS & GROWERS INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Social ScienceNetwork for Developing Conscious Communities Inc: $18,900 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,123,380Other$778,760Environment$197,994Community Improvement$63,000Food & Nutrition$38,530Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Social Science$20,000Housing & Shelter$18,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRODUCTORES DE CAFE DE PUERTO RICO INC: $1,123,380 over 3y, 69% of budgetPARA LA NATURALEZA INC: $197,994 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND PRODUCERS & GROWERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetAgroecology Commons: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNetwork for Developing Conscious Communities Inc: $18,900 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $18,530 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFUNDACION BUCARABON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUJAMAA FARMER COLLECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hispanic Federation I…Amazonsmile Foundation
Hispanic Federation IncNY13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hispanic Federation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cooperative League of the United States of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooperative League of the United States of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 58%
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc: 58% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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