· Public charity
Corn Refiners Association Inc
Cra is the national trade association representing the corn refining industry (exclusive of ethanol production) of the united states.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $32,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $37,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US-MEXICO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION | $6,500 |
| THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION6× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue +24%- UMUS MEXICO FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +71%
- FOFriends of the National Arboretum3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- PBPLANT BASED PRODUCTS COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $2.8M · revenue -26% · 100% of their budget
- CBCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +36%
- ICINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATIONgraduated2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +38%
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.
Washington International Trade Association (WITA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing a neutral forum in the nations capital for the open & robust discussion of international trade policy & related issues.
The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.
The u.s. grains council is dedicated to developing markets, enabling trade, and improving lives by fostering an inclusive organization of grain producers, agribusiness organizations, and international customers, while promoting free, fair,…
The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
To promote domestic and foreign trade through the increased use and development of the metropolitan washington airports.
Farm bureau is a voluntary, grassroots advocacy organization representing the social economic interests of farm and ranch families at the local, state, and national levels. by providing leadership and organizational skills, farm bureau…
Working for a fair global trading system
The national association of state departments of agriculture (nasda) enhances american food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement.
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Legal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Governors Biofuels Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 PLANT BASED PRODUCTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FARMERS FOR FREE TRADE ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds US MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
- Who funds Washington Intl Trade Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOVERNORS BIOFUELS COALITION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Corn Refiners Association Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.