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· Public charity
KENTUCKY CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
To represent corn farmers and to increase the profitability of corn producers in the state of kentucky.
$1.5M
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
5
Communities
$473k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Food & Nutrition$2.5MEducation$1.6MYouth Development$72kEnvironment$32kOther$2.0M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
youth
2021
youth
2022
youth
2023
educationyouth leadership
2024
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2025
researcheducationyouth leadershipadvance
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $334k
- $250k+2 grants · $858k
$214,303
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION$472,500
- US GRAIN COUNCIL$385,000
- UK RESEARCH FOUNDATION$214,303
- US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION$120,000
- US POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL$30,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 74% of KENTUCKY CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
KENTUCKY CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 7 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
5
Total granted
$6.2M
$65k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+20%
+54%
Still filing today
86%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Food & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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
- URUK RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +47%
- UMUS MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION6× · 2018–2024 · $620k · revenue +20%
- UPUS POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL6× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WCWATERWAYS COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +14%
- KAKY AG & ENVI IN THE CLASSROOMone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -14%
- KEKENTUCKY EXPOSITION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +95%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Future Farmers of America
Ffa makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through ag education.
Youth Development
2
Kansas Grain and Feed Association
To advance and protect the common interest of its members through effective communication and education to its members, the public and government
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3
Kentucky Center for Agriculture and
Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…
Food & Nutrition
4
Kansas Corn Growers Association
To promote and improve the profitability of kansas corn farmers by developing and maintaining domestic and international markets to utilize kansas and us corn production.
Food & Nutrition
5
Us Livestock Genetics Exports Inc
To administer and operate foreign market development and market access program activities as authorized by the united states department of agriculture, foreign agriculture service and commodity credit corporation.
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6
Kansas Livestock Association
Livestock Industry Promotion & Research
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7
Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation
Kentucky farm bureau is a grassroots organization dedicated to serving our membership family and their communities. as the voice of agriculture, we identify problems, develop solutions, promote economic success, and enhance the quality of…
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8
Kentucky Farm Bureau Education
Provide financial grants for higher education and promote agricultural education in ky elementary and secondary schools.
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9
Kentucky Cattlemen's Foundation Inc
Education and promotion of beef industry
Education
10
American Dairy Association of Kentucky
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
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11
Kentucky Horticulture Council Inc
To promote and expand the horticultural enterprises in the state of kentucky, and to increase farmer profitability, improve infrastructure and provide technical assistance.
Food & Nutrition
12
Us Grains Council
Developing markets, enabling trade, improving lives. the u.s. grains council serves as a global ambassador for american producers and agribusiness organizations. as a membership-driven organization, we are committed to promoting free and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky 4H Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Murray State University Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Food & Nutrition$2,539,500Other$1,966,829Education$1,604,383Youth Development$72,000Environment$32,348
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 NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UK RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds US POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERWAYS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY FFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KY AG & ENVI IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EXPOSITION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KY FFA FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation KENTUCKY CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KY AG & ENVI IN THE CLASSROOM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 611221720 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on KY AG & ENVI IN THE CLASSROOM, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Kentucky Corn Growers Association?
Find your warmest path to Kentucky Corn Growers Association through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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