How much did MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2019

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2020

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2021

farmers ranchers

2022

soybeanfarmers ranchers

2023

delmarvasoybeanfarmers ranchers

2024

delmarvasoybeanfarmers ranchers

2025

soybeanfarmers ranchers

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k10 grants · $233k
$50k–250k8 grants · $876k

$34,269

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$222,657
MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS$151,500
MPT FOUNDATION$150,000
US GRAINS COUNCIL$92,966
NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSN$85,500
US FARMING & RANCHING FOUNDATION$65,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$55,852
US WHEAT ASSOCIATES$52,850
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STRATEGIES$46,847
LEAD MARYLAND$37,300
MARYLAND SOYBEAN BOARD$34,269
NATIONAL EDUCATION CTR AG SAFETY$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN SHORE$20,000
NATIONAL ASSOC OF WHEAT GROWERS$18,500
MAIZALL$15,000

02The need

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 10% — the area typically sits at 7%. 73% 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.

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 · 21 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

-6%

Still filing today

81%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Food & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalOther

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

MG
MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $797k · revenue +144% · 78% of their budget
UG
US GRAINS COUNCIL
7× · 2018–2024 · $627k · revenue +38%
UW
US WHEAT ASSOCIATES
7× · 2018–2024 · $354k · revenue +21%

Funded once

BT
BIG TEN NETWORK
one grant, 2023 · $25k
MV
MARYLAND VIRGINIA ETHANOL INFRASTRU
one grant, 2018 · $19k
MC
MIDATLANTIC COMMONGROUND
one grant, 2018 · $10k

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.

Maryland Agricultural Resource

For the benefit of the citizens of md to enhance their knowledge and appreciation for agricultural businesses. to educate and assist farmers in developing agricultural operations that are viable and environmentally sustainable.

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Montgomery County Farm Bureau

To promote agriculture in montgomery county, md, educate students, represent the county in national organization, attend conventions, and agriculture group activities.

Food & Nutrition

Missouri Corn Growers Association

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;…

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University of Maryland Alumni

Education

Baltimore County Farm Bureau Inc

The baltimore county farm bureau is a grass roots, non-governmental, voluntary associaton whose mission is to promote and protect maryland agriculture and rural life.

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Minnesota Soybean Growers Association

Established by soybean farmers in 1962, the minnesota soybean growers association (msga) is a non-profit, farmer-controlled membership organization aimed at monitoring government policies, supporting research activities and market…

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Maryland Center On Economic Policy Inc

The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.

Social Science

Howard County Chamber of Commerce

To represent the business community of howard county, maryland

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Maine Farm Bureau Association

An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.

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Marshall County Agricultural Association

The association sponsors and manages the Marshall County Fair which provides an opportunity for county citizens to fraternize and promote 4H activities.

Recreation & Sports

Missouri Agribusiness Association

Statewide agricultural program

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Delaware Agricultural Museum

The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Agricultural Education and the most unlike its peers is University of Delaware. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

13/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,871,500Food & Nutrition$1,455,625Arts & Culture$950,000Community Improvement$796,500Education$155,300International$30,000

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.

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.

The Keith Campbell FoundationMD17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keith Campbell Foundation · Maryland Agricultural Education · 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 MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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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: MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 611618410 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 MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION, 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 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Maryland Grain Producers?

Find your warmest path to Maryland Grain Producers 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.

MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maryland Grain Producers?

More from the funding graph

MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maryland Grain Producers?

More from the funding graph