· Public charity
Kentucky Corn Growers Association Inc
To be an innovative organization that provides benefits and services that meet the needs of our producers and members in a changing industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $1,328,130 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,404,235 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $76,105 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION | $419,500 |
| US GRAIN COUNCIL | $356,000 |
| UK RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $306,630 |
| US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION | $120,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERISTY | $50,000 |
| US POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| ILLINOIS CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| KENTUCKY EXPOSITION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY 4-H FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY FFA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 80% of Kentucky Corn Growers Association Inc’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.
Recipient 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.
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 -14% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- NCNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +2%
- UOUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +66%
- USUNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $840k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- WCWATERWAYS COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue -14%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBSone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
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…
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.
To advance and protect the common interest of its members through effective communication and education to its members, the public and government
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
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…
Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.
To promote the use of forages as profitable, economical and environmentally sound agriculture through education, communication, and professional development of producers, scientists, educators and commercial representatives and through…
To promote and expand the horticultural enterprises in the state of kentucky, and to increase farmer profitability, improve infrastructure and provide technical assistance.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
The u.s. grains council is dedicated to developing markets, enabling trade, and improving lives by fostering an inclusive organization of grain producers, agribusiness organizations, and international customers, while promoting free, fair,…
Provide financial grants for higher education and promote agricultural education in ky elementary and secondary schools.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky 4H Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waterways Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds USA POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERWAYS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EXPOSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA AND ITS STATE ASSOCIATIONS & LOCAL CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 Kentucky Corn Growers Association Inc 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.