· Public charity
Illinois Corn Marketing Board
To provide research, market development and efficient markets for illinois corn and corn products.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS CORN GROWERS ASSN | $500,000 |
| SIUE-NAT'L CORN TO ETHANOL RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $65,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BLUESTEM BIOSCIENCES | $50,000 |
| CLEAN FUELS DEVELOPMENT COALITION | $35,000 |
| HIGHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ICILLINOIS CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +361% · 51% of their budget
- UGUS GRAINS COUNCIL5× · 2017–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +45%
University of Illinois Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- GEGROWTH ENERGYone grant, 2017 · $380k · revenue +11%
- HCHEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +75%
- IAIllinois Agricultural Associationone grant, 2017 · $113k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Missouri Corn Growers Association is a grassroots organization directed by its members dedicated to increasing the profitability of corn production by developing and expanding corn markets; collecting and distributing information;…
The iowa corn growers association (icga) is a membership organization lobbying to protect the rights of its more than 7,000 corn farmer members. icga serves as the collective voice for iowa corn farmers, lobbying on agricultural issues at…
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success, developing a competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increasing the awareness of…
The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.
To assist and represent the crop production supply and service industry and promote the sound stewardship and utilization of agricultural inputs.
To promote corn and corn products
The agribusiness association of iowa exists to advocate communicate and educate on behalf of a professional agribusiness industry.
Promote corn and corn products and improve corn profitability. influence public policy and increase corn usage through livestock feeding and new domestic products.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Corn Growers Association and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ILLINOIS CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds US GRAINS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds USA POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ZEA MAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IAA Foundation ↗
- Who funds GROWTH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds CLEAN FUELS DEVELOPMENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PORK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Agricultural Association ↗
- Who funds Illinois Foundation Future Farmers of America ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL FARMER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GRAIN & FEED ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CORN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Indiana Corn Marketing Council · Iowa Corn Grower's Association
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Illinois Corn Marketing Board funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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