Tennessee · Nonprofit
AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC
AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,656 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL OF AMERICA ($233,004). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $479k
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Agricenter International Inc does
Mission
Agricenter international, the education, agribusiness, research and agricultural hub of the mid-south, has a $524 million annual economic impact on the region, hosts over 1.5 million visitors annually, and educates over 18,000 students annually.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Farm and farm research: the worlds largest urban farm and research test facility provides a professional forum for unbiased development, evaluation, demonstration, education, and marketing of the latest and most advanced agricultural technologies and products.
$991,343 spent$584,975 earned by the program24% of program spendingExpo center and office leases: agricenter international leases offices and facilities to agricultural related businesses such as the university of tennessee ag extension, the national weather service, and the usda.
$1,520,401 spent$1,344,082 earned by the program36% of program spendingShow place arena: the agricenter show place arena is a multi-purpose facility for equestrian events, festivals, concerts, circuses, trade shows, car & boat shows, and more. The facility offers a beautiful main arena, a covered mulit-purpose arena, an outdoor arena, and an indoor warm up arena. There are (6) barns offering over 600 total stalls. Other amenities include a show office, show trailer, indoor & outdoor ticket booths.
$1,017,105 spent$873,175 earned by the program24% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$683,285 spent$1,770,204 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,212,134.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.7M to $12M (+152%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 26% · 2019 6% · 2021 33% · 2022 17% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Sean Mccarty
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $86k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $87k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.2M
- Department of Labor$2.0M
- Delta Regional Authority$450k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Shelby County Government · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC?
- AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,656 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL OF AMERICA ($233,004). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $478,656 in grants to AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC?
- NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $233,004 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Agricenter International →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing