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Food Export Association of the Midwest USA at a glance

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Food Export Association of the Midwest USA

Food Export Association of the Midwest U.S.A.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
147
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$611k
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.

Food & Nutrition$21MCommunity Improvement$19MEnvironment$8.0MInternational$3.8MAnimals$3.4MScience & Tech$2.5MReligion$1.3MHealth$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 147 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $240k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $4.7M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.9M
$20,870
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLOR BRANDS$610,585
CARNIVORE MEAT LLC$529,331
CKB MGMNT SVCS LLC$407,359
CLEMENTS FOODS$383,724
INSTINCT PET FOODS MI$376,458
DAIRY FARMERS OF AMER$343,706
AMERICAN TRADING INT$328,216
GLOBAL GROCERIES SALES INC$320,800
LILLIES Q SAUCES$307,224
GINSENG HERB COOP$261,486
SCHELL AND KEMPETER INC$249,166
CARAMELCRISP GARRETT$244,622
BLACKWOOD PET FOOD$240,046
AMERICAN POP CORN$226,386
STELLA AND CHEWYS$204,418
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OXBOW ANIMAL HEALTH: $632k → 6%SD OIL CO: $268k → 11%AMERICAN TRADING INTERNATIONAL: $425k → 14%AMERICAN POP CORN COMPANY: $516k → 7%EXPORT SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $285k → 13%GRACELAND FRUIT: $295k → 10%CKB MGMNT SVCS LLC: $407k → 10%SCHELL AND KEMPETER INC: $692k → 16%MINHAS MICRO DISTILLERY: $288k → 7%CARNIVORE MEAT LLC ACH PAYEE: $460k → 10%ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS Producer Pools: $303k → 15%WOEBER MUSTARD MFG ACH PAYEE: $300k → 15%BLACKWOOD PET FOOD ACH PAYEE: $395k → 16%GLOBAL GROCERIES SALES INC: $321k → 6%AMERICAN TRADING INT ACH PAYEE: $321k → 14%CKB MGMNT SVCS LLC ACH PAYEE: $311k → 10%DIAMOND PET FOODS: $676k → 16%ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS: $348k → 14%MIDWESTERN PET FOODS INC: $380k → 15%NATURES ONE ACH PAYEE: $1.2M → 5%WOEBER MUSTARD MFG CO: $300k → 15%CLEMENTS FOODS ACH PAYEE: $475k → 16%DAIRY FARMERS OF AMER: $344k → 16%SCHELL AND KEMPETER INC: $406k → 16%MIDWESTERN PET FOODS INC: $378k → 15%NATURES ONE ACH PAYEE: $538k → 5%WOEBER MUSTARD: $294k → 15%CLEMENTS FOODS: $384k → 16%DIAMOND PET: $345k → 16%NEW COMPOSITE PARTNERS: $377k → 10%MIDWESTERN PET FOODS INC: $356k → 15%NATURES ONE INC: $262k → 5%WOEBER MUSTARD MFG CO: $291k → 15%INSTINCT PET FOODS MI ACH PAYE: $575k → 11%NEW COMPOSITE PARTNERS: $316k → 10%MIDWESTERN PET: $262k → 15%WOEBER MUSTARD MFG CO: $288k → 15%INSTINCT PET FOODS MI ACH PAYE: $494k → 11%WOEBER MUSTARD MFG CO: $288k → 15%AMERICAN TRADING INT: $328k → 14%INSTINCT PET FOODS MI: $376k → 11%COLOR BRANDS: $611k → 14%COLOR BRANDS ACH PAYEE: $410k → 14%MULDOON DAIRY I: $419k → 10%LILLIES Q SAUCES: $307k → 14%CARAMELCRISP GARRETT ACH PAYEE: $937k → 14%CARAMELCRISP GARRETT ACH PAYEE: $906k → 14%CARAMELCRISP GARRETT ACH PAYEE: $462k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
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MI
NY
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
CA
NE
MO
AZ
KS
DC
OK
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 199 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

199 repeat relationships: 112 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

199
113

Total granted

$58M
$2.1M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SA
    SCHELL AND KEMPETER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M
  • CG
    CARAMELCRISP GARRETT ACH PAYEE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M
  • MP
    MIDWESTERN PET FOODS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M

Funded once

  • OV
    ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS Producer Pools
    one grant, 2019 · $303k
  • SA
    SB AND B FOODS ACH PAYEE
    one grant, 2022 · $142k
  • OV
    ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS
    one grant, 2022 · $121k
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
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 346 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHELL AND KEMPETER INC: $2,767,422 · OtherCARAMELCRISP GARRETT ACH PAYEE: $2,647,336 · OtherMIDWESTERN PET FOODS INC: $2,145,425 · OtherWOEBER MUSTARD MFG CO: $2,132,593 · OtherNATURES ONE ACH PAYEE: $2,096,265 · Other+195 more: $47,650,260 · Other+195 more
Other$59,439,301

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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.

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 346 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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