· Public charity
Fluid Fertilizer Foundation Inc
To provide grants to institutions of higher education
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $15,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,500 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| USDA ARS | $8,300 |
| A&L GREAT LAKES LABORATORIES INC | $7,803 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $42k · revenue +107%
- ISIOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +39%
- UOUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $15k
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $15k
- UCUGA CROP & SOIL SCIENCESone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Fluid Fertilizer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fluid Fertilizer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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