· Public charity
Minnesota Corn Growers Association
Identify and promote opportunities for corn growers while enhancing quality of life.
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.
The 21 grants below total $748,390 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $865,575 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $117,185 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 $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $563k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Renewable Fuel Association | $150,000 |
| MN Ag In The Classroom | $100,000 |
| Gophers Sports Properties | $77,700 |
| MN Agriculture and Rural Leadership | $65,000 |
| Fluence Media | $60,000 |
| Fluence Media | $60,000 |
| Farm Policy Facts | $50,000 |
| MN Soybean Growers Association | $40,000 |
| U of MN Foundation | $34,250 |
| Department of Agriculture | $20,000 |
| Mower SWCD | $11,540 |
| Minnesota FFA Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Pioneer Public Television | $10,000 |
| MN Landscape Arboretum | $10,000 |
| BioMade | $10,000 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- MAMINNESOTA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM8× · 2017–2025 · $594k · revenue +154% · 33% of their budget
- SMSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $508k · revenue +15%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $262k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- M4Minnesota 4-H Foundationone grant, 2017 · $49k
- UGUS GRAINS COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue +40%
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +21%
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.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
The CMVGA is dedicated to the success of its farmers markets, the future of small farms and agriculture, and most importantly, providing quality to customers. We are proud to offer the largest selection of products of any farmers market in…
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;…
We envision a community of vibrant, profitable, and professionally managed farmers markets that provide all Minnesotans access to local farm fresh foods, allow local producers to thrive and grow, and ensure that these opportunities are…
Promote corn and corn products and improve corn profitability. influence public policy and increase corn usage through livestock feeding and new domestic products.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
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.
The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Governors Biofuels Coalition. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 MINNESOTA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Farm Policy Facts ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA SOYBEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MN EDUC TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF WHEAT GROWERS ↗
- Who funds FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota 4-H Foundation ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA AGRI-GROWTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE CATTLEMEN'S ↗
- Who funds US GRAINS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Minnesota Foundation For Agriculture · Iowa Corn Grower's Association · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Chs Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Mightycause Charitable 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 organization Minnesota 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.
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.