· Public charity
Illinois Corn Marketing Board
To provide research, market development and efficient markets for illinois corn and corn products.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +42%
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%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 28 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.
- 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 ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Indiana Corn Marketing Council · Iowa Corn Grower's Association
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Illinois Corn Marketing Board funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Corn Marketing Board. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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