· Public charity
Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board Inc
Manage the Wisconsin Soybean marketing order by expanding and maintaining the sales of soybeans and soybean product and contracting with organizations to accomplish the purpose and objectives of the order.
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 17 grants below total $2,580,658 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,650,037 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,379 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $740k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $751,675 |
| North Central Soybean Research Prog | $350,000 |
| Cross Plains Solutions LLC | $297,624 |
| Clean Fuels Alliance America | $297,330 |
| Specialty Soy & Grains Alliance LLC | $182,500 |
| Quality Roasting Inc | $150,000 |
| American Soybean Association | $142,300 |
| MEG Corp | $84,043 |
| Soybean Research & Development Coun | $65,000 |
| United States Meat Export Federatio | $59,500 |
| US Soybean Export Council | $56,180 |
| WI Soybean Association | $45,000 |
| Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation In | $43,081 |
| Education Projects & Partnerships L | $30,000 |
| Agricultural Utilization Research | $11,425 |
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 10%. 100% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
- NCNORTH CENTRAL SOYBEAN RESEARCH PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +70%
- CFCLEAN FUELS ALLIANCE AMERICA4× · 2022–2025 · $685k · revenue +8%
- SSSPECIALTY SOYA & GRAINS ALLIANCE4× · 2022–2025 · $492k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- WBWISCONSIN BIOMASS ENERGY COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +31%
- NGNHS Global Eventsone grant, 2023 · $8k
- ISIOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -12%
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.
Support Policy that benefits North Dakota Soybean growers through farmer-led advocacy and partnerships.
To increase soybean demand, to conduct promotion, research, producer education, industry information, and to transact any and all lawful business for which corporations may be incorporated under the act, provided such business is not…
Established by soybean farmers in 1962, the minnesota soybean growers association (msga) is a non-profit, farmer-controlled membership organization aimed at monitoring government policies, supporting research activities and market…
To research and analyze seed production for soybeans
The overall mission of the indiana soybean alliance (isa) is to proactively work with partners to improve the opportunities for indiana soybean farmers. to accomplish this mission, in 2023 the isa board of directors modified the strategic…
Leading missouri soybean producers into the future through legislative advocacy, communication and outreach. and by advancing and protecting the interests of missouri soybean producers.
Promote corn and corn products and improve corn profitability. influence public policy and increase corn usage through livestock feeding and new domestic products.
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…
The u.s. grains council is dedicated to developing markets, enabling trade, and improving lives by fostering an inclusive organization of grain producers, agribusiness organizations, and international customers, while promoting free, fair,…
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 soybeans, soybean products, and soybean research & development.
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;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Soybean Association and the most unlike its peers is Wisconsin Biomass Energy Coalition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 NORTH CENTRAL SOYBEAN RESEARCH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CLEAN FUELS ALLIANCE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY SOYA & GRAINS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOYBEAN EXPORT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Soybean Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Agricultural Utilization Research Institute ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN BIOMASS ENERGY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOYBEAN MERCHANDISING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Indiana Soybean Alliance Inc
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 Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board Inc 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.
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