Tennessee · Nonprofit
AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COTTON ALLIANCE ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What American Cotton Shippers Association does
Mission
1. Encourage the production of an adequate and diverse supply of cotton at competitive prices to meet the needs of our domestic and foreign mill customers. 2. Educate producer and mill customers on the prudent and appropriate use of the available risk management instruments that will enable them to maximize their profit potential in the market. 3. Contract for the forward purchase and sale of cotton to lock in a market price for each of our customers. 4. Facilitate the prompt harvesting, processing, shipment and delivery acsa members are engaged in a great enterprise, the purchasing, storing, transporting, and merchandising of america's most valuable cash crop and its most abundant natural fiber. Our objectives, our challenges, our vital mission requires us to.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization exists to protect and enhance the cotton merchandising industry.
The organization exists to protect and enhance the cotton merchandising industry.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $8.0M to $6.0M (−24%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Darren Long
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION: 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 AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COTTON ALLIANCE ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION?
- CALIFORNIA COTTON ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN COTTON SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION 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.
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 1 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