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Hop Research Council

Solicit & provide funds for scientific investigation and research related to agricultural production & quality of hops in the United States.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$561k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Science & Tech$2.2MFood & Nutrition$1.3MEducation$684kHealth$169kArts & Culture$86kEnvironment$63kCrime & Legal$32kHuman Services$8k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
  • $250k+2 grants · $911k
$31,822
Median grant
4
States reached
$489k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Oregon State University$561,498
Agricultural Research Foundat$349,312
Washington State University$104,460
DK Fab Inc$86,000
Bryant Christie Inc$31,822
Individual grant recipient$30,000
University of Idaho$22,735
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%University of Idaho: $22k → 16%Bryant Christie Inc: $32k → 12%US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: $24k → 14%Synergistic Pesticide Lab: $68k → 12%OREGON HOP COMMISION: $53k → 14%Agricultural Research Foundat: $394k → 18%Eurofins QTA Inc: $8k → 12%CH2O: $38k → 9%Agriculture Development Group: $56k → 11%Agrimanagement Inc: $42k → 17%University of Idaho: $20k → 16%Bryant Christie Inc: $15k → 12%US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: $9k → 14%Synergistic Pesticide Lab: $62k → 12%OREGON HOP COMMISSION: $23k → 14%Agricultural Research Foundat: $349k → 18%CH2O: $25k → 9%Agriculture Development Group: $45k → 11%AGRIMANAGEMENT INC: $39k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO: $8k → 16%US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: $9k → 14%Synergistic Pesticide Lab: $10k → 12%Prairie Hop Farms LLC: $6k → 14%Agricultural Research Foundat: $329k → 18%Agriculture Development Group: $30k → 11%Agrimanagement Inc: $38k → 17%University of Idaho: $23k → 16%DK Fab Inc: $86k → 14%Oregon State University: $561k → 18%BRULOTTE FARMS: $13k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO: $7k → 16%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - AG RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $428k → 18%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - AG RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $235k → 18%OSU - AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $232k → 18%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - AG RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $186k → 18%OSU - Agricultural Research F: $164k → 18%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - AG RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 18%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 11 repeat orgs$780k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against -94% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$3.8M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
-94%

Still filing today

9%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $676k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • OS
    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M
  • AR
    Agricultural Research Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $843k

Funded once

  • OH
    OREGON HOP GROWERS' ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue -94%
  • OH
    OREGON HOP COMMISSION
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
  • BF
    BRULOTTE FARMS
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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

2 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. 2 of the 20 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)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,270,159 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYAgricultural Research Foundation: $1,072,576 · OtherAgricultural Research FoundationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $843,181 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $561,498 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY+15 more: $800,943 · Other+15 moreOREGON HOP GROWERS' ASSOCIATION: $53,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,548,357Food & Nutrition$53,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAgricultural Research Foundation: $1,072,576 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetOREGON HOP GROWERS' ASSOCIATION: $53,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

  • Who funds Agricultural Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HOP GROWERS' ASSOCIATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Agricultural Research Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hop Research Council?

Find your warmest path to Hop Research Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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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