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Minnesota Corn Growers Association at a glance

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Minnesota Corn Growers Association

Identify and promote opportunities for corn growers while enhancing quality of life.

$866k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
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.

Education$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.6MYouth Development$643kEnvironment$456kArts & Culture$318kScience & Tech$30kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $748,390, the rows itemized in this filing. The $865,575 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $117,185 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $563k
$11,540
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Turnkey Events and Promotion: $66k → 5%A Greater Minnesota: $50k → 8%University of MN Foundation: $59k → 11%MN Agricultural & Rural Leadership: $100k → 11%MN Soybean Growers Association: $51k → 15%Iowa Corn Growers Association: $58k → 10%MN Landscape Arboretum: $55k → 5%Turnkey Events and Promotion: $65k → 5%MN Agricultural & Rural Leadership: $70k → 11%MN Agricultural & Rural Leadership: $70k → 11%MN Agriculture and Rural Leadership: $65k → 11%Renewable Fuel Association: $150k → 11%MN Agricultural & Rural Leadership: $55k → 11%MN Agricultural & Rural Leadership: $51k → 11%Farm Policy Facts: $50k → 14%SW MN State University: $50k → 11%Farm Policy Facts: $50k → 14%MN Agriculture in the Classroom: $100k → 6%Farm Policy Facts: $50k → 14%MN Agriculture in the Classroom: $90k → 6%Farm Policy Facts: $50k → 14%MN Agriculture in the Classroom: $80k → 6%Farm Policy Facts: $50k → 14%MN Agriculture in the Classroom: $60k → 6%Click Advertising: $160k → 11%St Paul Saints Baseball: $75k → 14%Farm Policy Facts: $50k → 14%MN Agriculture in the Classroom: $60k → 6%St Paul Saints Baseball: $60k → 14%Farm Policy Facts: $50k → 14%MN Agriculture in the Classroom: $60k → 6%Portage Marketing: $52k → 11%St Paul Saints Baseball: $60k → 14%Portage Marketing: $50k → 11%St Paul Saints Baseball: $60k → 14%MN United Soccer: $150k → 11%St Paul Saints Baseball: $60k → 14%MN United Soccer: $150k → 11%MN United Soccer: $95k → 11%MN United Soccer: $89k → 11%Fluence Media: $100k → 11%Fluence Media: $73k → 11%Fluence Media: $60k → 11%Fluence Media: $60k → 11%Fluence Media: $58k → 11%Fluence Media: $55k → 11%MN State Fair Foundation: $300k → 14%Click Advertising: $100k → 11%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

ND
MN
IL
WI
MA
IA
OH
CA
NE
MO
VA
AR
NC
DC
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 46 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
17

Total granted

$6.5M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+21%

Still filing today

61%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
EducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • MA
    MINNESOTA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $594k · revenue +154% · 33% of their budget
  • SM
    SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $508k · revenue +15%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $262k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • M4
    Minnesota 4-H Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $49k
  • UG
    US GRAINS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue +37%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +21%
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
Minnesota Grocers Association

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…

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2
Central Minnesota Vegetable Growers Assn

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…

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3
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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4
Minnesota Farmers Market Association

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…

Community Improvement
5
South Dakota Corn Growers Association

Promote corn and corn products and improve corn profitability. influence public policy and increase corn usage through livestock feeding and new domestic products.

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6
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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7
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
8
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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9
Iowa Corn Promotion Board

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.

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10
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Ffa Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 70 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fluence Media: $526,500 · OtherFluence MediaMN United Soccer: $484,250 · OtherMN United SoccerSt Paul Saints Baseball: $405,000 · OtherSt Paul Saints BaseballMINNESOTA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $320,500 · OtherMINNESOTA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYMINNESOTA SOYBEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $319,380 · OtherMINNESOTA SOYBEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATIONClick Advertising: $260,250 · OtherClick AdvertisingGophers Sports Properties: $224,950 · OtherRENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION: $175,000 · Other+42 more: $1,537,100 · Other+42 moreSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $508,197 · EducationSOUTHWEST MINNES…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $262,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MI…MINNESOTA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $89,000 · EducationMINNESOTA FFA FO…NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $65,188 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA S…FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationFARMERS UNION FO…+1 more: $6,000 · EducationFarm Policy Facts: $450,000 · Food & NutritionFarm Polic…MINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $145,000 · Food & NutritionMINNESOTA …NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $40,700 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL C…+2 more: $33,464 · Food & NutritionMINNESOTA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $594,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINNESOTA…MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $248,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE: $9,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION: $47,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER MANKATO GROWTH INC: $16,000 · Community ImprovementBIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGROWTH ENERGY: $5,000 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,252,930Education$985,635Food & Nutrition$669,164Youth Development$594,000Environment$262,000Community Improvement$78,500Arts & Culture$75,000

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 budgetMINNESOTA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $594,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $508,197 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetFarm Policy Facts: $450,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetMINNESOTA SOYBEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $319,380 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $262,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $248,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetRENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION: $175,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $145,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetMinnesota Farm Bureau Federation: $115,250 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMINNESOTA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $89,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION: $70,042 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $65,188 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST CENTRAL MN EDUC TELEVISION: $65,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF WHEAT GROWERS: $59,600 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetFARMERS UNION FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetMinnesota 4-H Foundation: $49,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMINNESOTA MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION: $47,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $40,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA AGRI-GROWTH COUNCIL INC: $37,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE CATTLEMEN'S: $37,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetUS GRAINS COUNCIL: $36,186 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA GRAIN & FEED ASSOCIATION: $26,165 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTWIN CITIES IN MOTION: $24,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS CORN MARKETING BOARD: $21,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA CROP PRODUCTION RETAILERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PORK BOARD: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER MANKATO GROWTH INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $15,964 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetILLINOIS CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROWTH ENERGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNORS BIOFUELS COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetOHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWER'S ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Minnesota Foundation …Iowa Corn Grower's As…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Chs FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Minnesota Community F…The McKnight Foundati…The Nature ConservancyMightycause Charitabl…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN18.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Minnesota Corn Growers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Corn Growers Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 70 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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