California · Nonprofit
AgTech Innovation Alliance
AgTech Innovation Alliance (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $738,000 to it, the largest being ECMC FOUNDATION ($668,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $556k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $738k
- Net assets
- $413k
What AgTech Innovation Alliance does
Mission
We accelerate innovation in our global food system providing education mentorship & incubation services to startup companies commercializing Ag|Food|Health innovations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
AIA operates The LabAgStart, an incubator for science-based startup companies in Woodland, CA. The LabAgStart provides services to regional AgriFoodTech startups to advance innovation in our global food system and grow economic activity in Woodland and the surrounding Greater-Sacramento region. Revenues include user fees that help offset the cost of operations. Expenses include occupancy, equipment, maintenance, consumable supplies, and specialized services to operate and maintain the facility.
$383,392 spent$223,972 earned by the program69% of program spendingAgStart helps align and coordinate entrepreneur-support organizations and other stakeholders as a part of a regional AgriFoodTech innovation cluster in Californias Central Valley region, under an award from the U.S. Federal Small Business Administration.
$90,502 spent$123,969 earned by the program16% of program spendingEducation and mentorship of innovators and entrepreneurs pursuing Agri Food innovation in AgStarts Greater-Sacramento region and beyond. Monthly meetups, mentoring sessions, in-person and virtual speaker sessions. Revenue includes membership fees, and services agreements with sponsoring organizations. Expenses include staffing costs and contractor expenses for subject-matter experts to mentor entrepreneurs and meetup expenses.
$69,533 spent$47,495 earned by the program13% of program spendingAgStart leads AgTech Nation, a nationwide collaborative network of AgriFood Entrepreneur-Support organizations founded under a 2023 SBA grant.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $553,427.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $595k to $956k (+61%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 50% · 2022 26% · 2023 34% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of AgTech Innovation Alliance’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
John Selep
President Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 3 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.
From the IRS filings of AgTech Innovation Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AgTech Innovation Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 AgTech Innovation Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
AgTech Innovation Alliance draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AgTech Innovation Alliance receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $738k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AgTech Innovation Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Commerce$500k
- Small Business Administration$250k
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 AgTech Innovation Alliance
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AgTech Innovation Alliance: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AgTech Innovation Alliance?
- AgTech Innovation Alliance (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $738,000 to it, the largest being ECMC FOUNDATION ($668,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AgTech Innovation Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $738,000 in grants to AgTech Innovation Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AgTech Innovation Alliance?
- ECMC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $668,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AgTech Innovation Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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