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Corn Refiners Association Inc

Cra is the national trade association representing the corn refining industry (exclusive of ethanol production) of the united states.

$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.8MFood & Nutrition$220kArts & Culture$67kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$26kCivil Rights$18kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Benefit$8k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $32,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $37,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE FOUNDATION$10,000
US-MEXICO FOUNDATION$10,000
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION$6,500
THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM$5,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GOVERNORS BIOFUELS COALITION: $10k → 13%US-MEXICO FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE: $13k → 7%AGRICULTURE TRADE EDUCATION COUNCIL: $25k → 10%US-MEXICO FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE: $8k → 7%AGRICULTURE TRADE EDUCATION COUNCIL: $25k → 10%US-MEXICO FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FARMERS FOR FREE TRADE: $25k → 10%WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FARMERS FOR FREE TRADE: $25k → 10%WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM: $15k → 14%WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE: $8k → 14%THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM: $6k → 14%PLANT BASED PRODUCTS COUNCIL: $2.8M → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

12%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$398k · 7 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$398k
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+13%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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

  • THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue +24%
  • UM
    US MEXICO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +71%
  • FO
    Friends of the National Arboretum
    3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • PB
    PLANT BASED PRODUCTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $2.8M · revenue -26% · 100% of their budget
  • CB
    CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +13%
  • WL
    WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +13%
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
Washington Intl Trade Association

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.

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2
Us - China Policy Foundation
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3
American Farm Bureau Federation

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.

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4
Washington Federal Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Us Grains Council

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,…

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6
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

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…

Public Benefit
7
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Washington Airports Task Force

To promote domestic and foreign trade through the increased use and development of the metropolitan washington airports.

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9
Washington State Farm Bureau Federation

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…

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10
Washington Fair Trade Coalition

Working for a fair global trading system

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11
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture

The national association of state departments of agriculture (nasda) enhances american food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement.

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12
Us Farming and Ranching Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Legal Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANT BASED PRODUCTS COUNCIL: $2,750,000 · Food & NutritionPLANT BASED PRODUCTS COUNCILFARMERS FOR FREE TRADE: $150,000 · OtherAGRICULTURE TRADE EDUCATION COUNCIL: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $66,500 · Arts & CultureFriends of the National Arboretum: $35,500 · EnvironmentGOVERNORS BIOFUELS COALITION: $10,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentUS MEXICO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWashington Intl Trade Foundation: $26,000 · InternationalCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · Civil RightsWASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Food & Nutrition$2,750,000Other$227,500Arts & Culture$66,500Environment$55,500Philanthropy$50,000International$26,000Civil Rights$17,500Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANT BASED PRODUCTS COUNCIL: $2,750,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetFARMERS FOR FREE TRADE: $150,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $66,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUS MEXICO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum: $35,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWashington Intl Trade Foundation: $26,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOVERNORS BIOFUELS COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Corn Refiners Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Corn Refiners Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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