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Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding at a glance

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Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding

To maintain a high standard of integrity in data collection systems providing data for the national dairy genetic evaluation program database; to provide data for the use in research and education, including the development of effective procedures for estimating the genetic merit of dairy animals; to provide data and summaries of…

$570k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
—
States reached
$299k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$749kEducation$396kYouth Development$333kEnvironment$299kAnimals$213kHealth$132k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $271k
  • $250k+1 grant · $299k
$138,697
Median grant
—
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$299,422
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$138,697
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$132,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 4 repeat orgs$865k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$1.3M
$565k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+112%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $400k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $396k · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $249k · revenue -48%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WI SYSTEM OZAUKEE CTY 4-H LIVESTOCK ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $333k · revenue +112%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2022 · $132k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -52%
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $299,422 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $212,615 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $132,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $396,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $249,284 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WI SYSTEM OZAUKEE CTY 4-H LIVESTOCK ASSOC: $333,151 · Youth DevelopmentBOARD OF REGENTS …FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,044,037Education$645,284Youth Development$333,151Food & Nutrition$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $396,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $249,284 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: $100,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 8 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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