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National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation

The nasda foundation is the only educational and research organization that directly serves the nation's state departments of agriculture.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$457k
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$1.7MEnvironment$1.1MPublic Benefit$674kEducation$248kCommunity Improvement$135kScience & Tech$74kHealth$58kYouth Development$28k
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $597k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $507k
  • $250k+1 grant · $457k
$33,336
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL CREA$456,644
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN FEED CONTROL OFFICIALS$244,211
EVERGREEN SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT$90,736
ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS$60,998
KENTUCKY AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT ADVOCACY$60,918
CULTIVATING COMMUNITY$50,613
CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT$48,401
CO-OP HUDSON VALLEY$42,427
FARM TO INSTITUTION NEW ENGLAND$41,533
COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP$41,484
GLYNWOOD CENTER$39,569
CHEROKEE HISTORICAL STATE RESORT PARK OF AURORA$39,022
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$35,729
THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY$34,931
SULLIVAN COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT$33,336
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 29%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $41k → 29%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $14k → 29%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 16 repeat orgs$743k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$3.3M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+148%

Still filing today

50%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $558k 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 & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $709k · revenue +200%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $684k · revenue +14%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN FEED CONTROL OFFICIALS INC C/O FASS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $674k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF STATE & TERRITORIAL DENTAL DIRECTORSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +30%
  • NM
    New Mexico State Univ Fdn Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +148%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +166%
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
National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation

The nasda foundation is the only educational and research organization that directly serves the nation's state departments of agriculture. we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. our mission is to enhance american food and agricultural…

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2
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.

Food & Nutrition
3
Organic Association of Kentucky

To improve the health of the environment and communities by advancing organic regenerative agriculture to grow ecological resilience, economic viability and socially just futures for kentucky farmers through educational, technical and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont

The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.

Arts & Culture
5
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
6
Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship Inc

Cade's mission is to increase the number and diversity of successful farm enterprises and related businesses in new york.

Community Improvement
7
Agricultural Health Benefits Alliance Educational Foundation Llc
Education
8
National Corn Growers Association Foundation

Advance the interests of us corn farmers through research and education.

Food & Nutrition
9
Ag Technology and Environmental Stewardship Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
10
Sustainable Growers
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11
Organic Growers Research and Information Sharing N

To facilitate the developement of sustainable food systems by helping groweres to increase their knowledge of agro-ecosystems management and utilization of local and regional marketing strategies.

Food & Nutrition
12
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture

The national association of state departments of agriculture (nasda) enhances american food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dairy Grazing Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cherokee State Resort Historical Park of Aurora. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 46 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN FEED CONTROL OFFICIALS INC C/O FASS: $674,389 · OtherASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN FEED CONTROL OFFICIALS INC C/O F…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $351,989 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $158,256 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAKentucky Ag Development Advocacy Inc: $101,063 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $99,500 · OtherEVERGREEN SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $90,736 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $85,427 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $84,500 · Other+16 more: $368,912 · Other+16 moreCornell University: $683,571 · EducationCornell UniversityBUFFALO GO GREEN INC: $56,157 · EducationBUFFALO GO GREEN INC+1 more: $25,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS: $709,042 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF FOOD A…GLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $39,569 · Public BenefitCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $50,613 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $35,729 · Food & NutritionCATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC: $22,021 · Food & NutritionSEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC: $19,231 · Food & NutritionDAIRY GRAZING ALLIANCE INC: $16,142 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $14,131 · Food & NutritionNUESTRAS RAICES INC: $12,107 · Food & NutritionTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $42,427 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $41,533 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $30,077 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARMER FUND INC: $20,296 · Community ImprovementKEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $16,774 · Community ImprovementCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $14,464 · Community ImprovementCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $53,591 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $34,931 · EnvironmentCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $55,239 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALS: $22,761 · Health
Other$2,014,772Education$764,728Public Benefit$748,611Food & Nutrition$169,974Community Improvement$165,571Environment$88,522Human Services$55,239Health$22,761

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS: $709,042 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCornell University: $683,571 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN FEED CONTROL OFFICIALS INC C/O FASS: $674,389 over 3y, 14% of budgetKentucky Ag Development Advocacy Inc: $101,063 over 2y, 31% of budgetBUFFALO GO GREEN INC: $56,157 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $55,239 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $53,591 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $41,533 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $39,569 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF STATE & TERRITORIAL DENTAL DIRECTORS: $35,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $30,077 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALS: $22,761 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC: $19,231 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $14,464 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $14,131 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNUESTRAS RAICES INC: $12,107 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

Rsf Social Finance IncThe Ralph E Ogden Fou…ImpactassetsincFarm Aid IncNew York State Health…Clif Family FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Rsf Social Finance IncCA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Farm Aid Inc · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation. 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 →median 12%
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Nuestras Raices Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 46 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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