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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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$752k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$9.4MScience & Tech$685kPublic Safety & Disaster$375kEnvironment$208kHealth$33kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $2,580,658, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,650,037 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $69,379 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $740k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$65,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Agricultural Utilization Research: $11k → 11%MEG Corp: $84k → 11%Specialty Soy & Grains Alliance LLC: $183k → 15%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $383k → 10%Missouri Soybean Merchandising Coun: $5k → 10%US Soybean Export Council: $120k → 11%Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation In: $43k → 10%Quality Roasting Inc: $150k → 11%Cross Plains Solutions LLC: $298k → 13%United States Meat Export Federatio: $90k → 12%Education Projects & Partnerships L: $30k → 15%NHS Global Events: $8k → 14%Agricultural Utilization Research: $6k → 11%MEG Corp: $53k → 11%Specialty Soy & Grains Alliance LLC: $135k → 15%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $350k → 10%US Soybean Export Council: $56k → 11%WI Soybean Association: $35k → 10%Cross Plains Solutions LLC: $77k → 13%United States Meat Export Federatio: $60k → 12%Education Projects & Partnerships L: $30k → 15%MEG Corp: $31k → 11%Specialty Soy & Grains Alliance LLC: $118k → 15%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $350k → 10%US Soybean Export Council: $34k → 11%Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation In: $5k → 10%Specialty Soy & Grains Alliance LLC: $57k → 15%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $350k → 10%US Soybean Export Council: $15k → 11%Wisconsin Biomass Energy Coalition: $10k → 10%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $290k → 10%American Soybean Association: $142k → 11%WI Soybean Association: $45k → 10%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $243k → 10%American Soybean Association: $74k → 11%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $212k → 10%American Soybean Association: $54k → 11%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $180k → 10%American Soybean Association: $25k → 11%North Central Soybean Research Prog: $70k → 10%Soybean Research & Development Coun: $65k → 10%Iowa Soybean Association: $5k → 10%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

MN
IL
WI
IA
OH
CO
MO
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 14 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$10M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+31%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
Community ImprovementFood & NutritionScience & TechOther
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

  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL SOYBEAN RESEARCH PROGRAM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +70%
  • CF
    CLEAN FUELS ALLIANCE AMERICA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $685k · revenue +8%
  • SS
    SPECIALTY SOYA & GRAINS ALLIANCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $492k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • WB
    WISCONSIN BIOMASS ENERGY COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • NG
    NHS Global Events
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • IS
    IOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -12%
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
North Dakota Soybean Growers Association

Support Policy that benefits North Dakota Soybean growers through farmer-led advocacy and partnerships.

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2
Soy Aquaculture Alliance Inc

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…

Membership Benefit
3
Minnesota Soybean Growers Association

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…

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4
Natural Soybean and Grain Alliance Inc

To research and analyze seed production for soybeans

Food & Nutrition
5
Indiana Soybean Alliance Inc

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…

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6
Missouri Soybean Association

Leading missouri soybean producers into the future through legislative advocacy, communication and outreach. and by advancing and protecting the interests of missouri soybean producers.

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7
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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8
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
9
Us Grains Council

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,…

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10
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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11
Mid-South Soybean Board

To promote soybeans, soybean products, and soybean research & development.

Food & Nutrition
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Soybean Association; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Wisconsin Madison: $5,325,486 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonCLEAN FUELS ALLIANCE AMERICA: $684,658 · OtherCLEAN FUELS ALLIANCE AMERICASPECIALTY SOYA & GRAINS ALLIANCE: $492,000 · OtherSPECIALTY SOYA & GRAINS ALLIANCECross Plains Solutions LLC: $374,935 · OtherAMERICAN SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION: $295,900 · Other+10 more: $795,431 · Other+10 moreNORTH CENTRAL SOYBEAN RESEARCH PROGRAM: $2,428,500 · Science & TechNORTH CENTRAL SOYBEAN RES…UNITED STATES SOYBEAN EXPORT COUNCIL INC: $224,935 · Community ImprovementWISCONSIN BIOMASS ENERGY COALITION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation Inc: $48,081 · Food & NutritionAgricultural Utilization Research Institute: $17,200 · Food & Nutrition
Other$7,968,410Science & Tech$2,428,500Community Improvement$234,935Food & Nutrition$65,281

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH CENTRAL SOYBEAN RESEARCH PROGRAM: $2,428,500 over 9y, 10% of budgetCLEAN FUELS ALLIANCE AMERICA: $684,658 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSPECIALTY SOYA & GRAINS ALLIANCE: $492,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION: $295,900 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES SOYBEAN EXPORT COUNCIL INC: $224,935 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION INC: $149,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWisconsin Soybean Association Inc: $145,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $65,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation Inc: $48,081 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAgricultural Utilization Research Institute: $17,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN BIOMASS ENERGY COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMISSOURI SOYBEAN MERCHANDISING COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Indiana Soybean Allia…
Indiana Soybean Alliance IncIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indiana Soybean Alliance 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 Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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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