· Public charity
Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Inc
The maryland grain producers utilization board was established in 1991.
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
- Under $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $857k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $221,692 |
| MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS | $149,750 |
| MPT FOUNDATION | $112,500 |
| US GRAINS COUNCIL | $101,485 |
| NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSN | $78,500 |
| SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STRATEGIES | $72,446 |
| US FARMING & RANCHING FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| US WHEAT ASSOCIATES | $55,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $47,381 |
| LEAD MARYLAND | $35,000 |
| MARYLAND SOYBEAN BOARD | $32,000 |
| NATIONAL EDUCATION CTR AG SAFETY | $20,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN SHORE | $20,000 |
| MARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION | $14,500 |
| NATIONAL ASSOC OF WHEAT GROWERS | $13,000 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 72% 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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 3 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
- NCNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +2%
- MFMPT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +64%
- MGMARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +134% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- MVMARYLAND VIRGINIA ETHANOL INFRASTRUone grant, 2017 · $190k
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $19k
- CRCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
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.
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;…
To cultivate a vibrant and sustainable farmers market community in the state of maryland, expand food access to populations of all incomes, and provide education on topics related to food, agriculture, and nutrition.
To support agriculture in montgomery county and the state of maryland.
Maryland farm bureau, inc. is an agricultural, not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to protect and grow maryland agriculture and preserve rural life.
The mission of the minnesota agri-growth council is to advocate for minnesota's food and agriculture industry by serving as a unified voice and promoting relationships with allied industries.
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
Statewide agricultural program
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.
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery County Extension Advisory 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
20 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. 20 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 NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds US GRAINS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds US WHEAT ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds US FARMING AND RANCHING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds LEAD MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SOYBEAN BOARD ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WHEAT GROWERS ↗
- Who funds Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA POULTRY INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Extension Advisory Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WICOMICO COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
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.
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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 Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc — 2% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
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.