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Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Inc at a glance

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Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Inc

The maryland grain producers utilization board was established in 1991.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$222k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$4.4MScience & Tech$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MEducation$816kEnvironment$437kCommunity Improvement$241kEmployment$17k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $857k
$32,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $56k → 10%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $83k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $230k → 11%US WHEAT ASSOCIATES: $56k → 7%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS: $152k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $223k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $77k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $230k → 11%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS: $138k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $222k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $76k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $230k → 11%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS: $125k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $216k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $75k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $215k → 11%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STRATEGIES: $72k → 6%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS: $125k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $130k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $101k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSN: $178k → 11%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOC: $114k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $129k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION INC: $188k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $101k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSN: $138k → 11%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION: $95k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $112k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION: $163k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $100k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSN: $108k → 11%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOC: $88k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $76k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $93k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSN: $86k → 11%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOC: $75k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $64k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $83k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSN: $79k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $58k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION INC: $138k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION INC: $125k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION: $113k → 11%MPT FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS: $150k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IA
PA
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 23 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
5

Total granted

$8.2M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+2%

Still filing today

78%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +2%
  • MF
    MPT FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +64%
  • MG
    MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +134% · 79% of their budget

Funded once

  • MV
    MARYLAND VIRGINIA ETHANOL INFRASTRU
    one grant, 2017 · $190k
  • JM
    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • CR
    CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Maryland Agricultural Resource Council Inc

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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2
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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3
Maryland Farmers Market Association

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.

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4
Montgomery County Farm Bureau Incorporated

To support agriculture in montgomery county and the state of maryland.

Food & Nutrition
5
Maryland Farm Bureau Inc

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.

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6
Minnesota Agri-Growth Council Inc

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.

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7
Us Farmers and Ranchers Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
8
Missouri Agribusiness Association

Statewide agricultural program

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9
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
10
Michigan Farm Bureau

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.

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11
Howard County Chamber of Commerce

To represent the business community of howard county, maryland

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $1,230,293 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKUS GRAINS COUNCIL: $813,539 · OtherUS GRAINS COUNCILUS WHEAT ASSOCIATES INC: $465,000 · OtherUS WHEAT ASSOCIATES INCUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $268,602 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARESUSTAINABLE ENERGY STRATEGIES: $267,450 · OtherSUSTAINABLE ENERGY STRATEGIESMARYLAND VIRGINIA ETHANOL INFRASTRU: $189,646 · OtherMARYLAND SOYBEAN BOARD: $152,583 · Other+14 more: $593,022 · Other+14 moreNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $1,492,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASS…US FARMING AND RANCHING FOUNDATION: $292,500 · Food & NutritionUS FARMING AND RANCHING F…THE MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INCORPORATED: $73,000 · Food & NutritionMPT FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureMPT FOUNDATION I…MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $1,059,750 · Community ImprovementMARYLAND GRAIN…LEAD MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $219,900 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $50,000 · International
Other$3,980,135Food & Nutrition$1,857,500Arts & Culture$1,250,000Community Improvement$1,059,750Education$219,900International$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $1,492,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetMARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $1,059,750 over 9y, 79% of budgetUS GRAINS COUNCIL: $813,539 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUS WHEAT ASSOCIATES INC: $465,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUS FARMING AND RANCHING FOUNDATION: $292,500 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $268,602 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $219,900 over 9y, 17% of budgetMARYLAND SOYBEAN BOARD: $152,583 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetMARYLAND FFA FOUNDATION INC: $122,250 over 9y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WHEAT GROWERS: $110,125 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetNortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc: $89,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC: $84,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INCORPORATED: $73,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDELMARVA POULTRY INDUSTRY INC: $17,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMontgomery County Extension Advisory Council Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWICOMICO COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $6,635 over 1y, 22% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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