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Ohio Corn Marketing Program

To promote ohio corn for ohio corn producers

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$867k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$15MEducation$3.7MScience & Tech$1.2MHealth$275kArts & Culture$125kRecreation & Sports$97kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $377k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$45,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC$867,380
US GRAINS COUNCIL$343,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO$284,546
EDUCATION PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS$176,583
US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION$75,000
THE BIG TEN NETWORK$75,000
SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP$50,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$49,042
OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA$47,411
OHIO FFA$45,600
OTPA$45,000
IOWA CORN OPPORTUNITIES LLC$39,136
FARMGATE INSIGHTS LLC$37,000
OACI$19,000
OCMP$18,421
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $1.2M → 14%IOWA CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $51k → 10%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $986k → 11%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $105k → 12%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $376k → 5%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $285k → 15%THE BIG TEN NETWORK: $75k → 14%SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP: $50k → 11%THORTONS: $80k → 15%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $884k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $867k → 11%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $75k → 12%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $334k → 5%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $65k → 15%UNITED DAIRY FARMERS: $56k → 16%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $803k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $864k → 11%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $75k → 12%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $155k → 5%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $61k → 15%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $802k → 14%CASEY'S GENERAL STORES: $60k → 10%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $844k → 11%US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION: $70k → 12%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $134k → 5%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $796k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $777k → 11%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $126k → 5%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $780k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $773k → 11%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $101k → 5%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $356k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $752k → 11%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $83k → 5%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $351k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $718k → 11%OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIA: $52k → 5%US GRAINS COUNCIL: $343k → 14%NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOC: $539k → 11%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $345k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $194k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $186k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $153k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $98k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $56k → 15%OACI: $90k → 15%GEOSYNTEC: $57k → 15%FFA: $54k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MI
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MO
KY
MD
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 22 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$20M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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 & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +2%
  • UG
    US GRAINS COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +45%
  • OC
    OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWER'S ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +5% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • T
    THORTONS
    one grant, 2021 · $80k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • UD
    UNITED DAIRY FARMERS
    one grant, 2021 · $56k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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;…

2
Ohio Agribusiness Association

To promote the interest of the ohio agribusiness industry and those engaged in the agribusiness industry through education, legislative activities public relations, and research.

3
Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition
4
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.

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.

6
Agribusiness Association of Iowa

The agribusiness association of iowa exists to advocate communicate and educate on behalf of a professional agribusiness industry.

7
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

8
Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.

9
Illinois Corn Growers Association

To create and maintain opportunities for illinois corn growers to capture more value for their product. in order to fulfill our mission, the organization conducts governmental affairs activities at all levels,market development projects,…

10
Illinois Pork Producers Association

To improve the quality, production efficiency, and promotion of pork. representation and advocacy in regulatory and policy issues affecting the pork industry.

11
Kansas Corn Growers Association

To promote and improve the profitability of kansas corn farmers by developing and maintaining domestic and international markets to utilize kansas and us corn production.

Food & Nutrition
12
Ohio County & Independent Agricultural Societies
Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Cattlemen's Association and the most unlike its peers is Ohio Ffa Camps 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

US GRAINS COUNCIL — $6,300,729 · OtherUS GRAINS COUNCILOHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWER'S ASSOCIATION — $1,407,951 · OtherOHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWER'S ASSOCIATIONEDUCATION PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS — $1,356,053 · OtherEDUCATION PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,081,852 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYUNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC — $575,000 · Other+36 more — $1,948,063 · Other+36 moreNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION — $7,120,376 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATIONOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $409,971 · Education
Other$12,669,648Food & Nutrition$7,120,376Education$409,971

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION — $7,120,376 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetUS GRAINS COUNCIL — $6,300,729 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetOHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWER'S ASSOCIATION — $1,407,951 over 9y, 28% of budgetUNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC — $575,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $409,971 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO FFA CAMPS INC — $97,070 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetIOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION — $77,242 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUSA POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL — $49,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetOHIO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FOOD INTEGRITY INC — $10,530 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 US GRAINS COUNCIL
  • Who funds OHIO CORN AND WHEAT GROWER'S ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds UNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OHIO FFA CAMPS INC
  • Who funds OHIO FFA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Our Ohio Communications Inc
  • Who funds USA POULTRY & EGG EXPORT COUNCIL
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds OHIO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR FOOD INTEGRITY INC
  • Who funds OHIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Indiana Corn Marketing CouncilIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indiana Corn Marketing Council

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 Ohio Corn Marketing Program 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    5report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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