Wisconsin · Nonprofit
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $21M
What American Society of Agronomy does
Mission
Promote effective research in crops and soils, foster high standards in crops and soils education, promote improvements in the agronomic profession, endeavor to maintain high standards of ethics in crop and soil science, make available information on crop and soil sciences and cooperate with other organizations in the consideration of agronomic problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scientific periodicals:agronomy journal 2900 subscribersjournal of environmental quality 2100 subscribersother scientific periodicals, meeting abstracts, books, monographs and special series
$678,101 spent$1,223,449 earned by the program15% of program spendingCertification program: provides certification & continuing education to promote improvement in the agronomic profession
$1,818,026 spentof which $43,628 as grants$2,478,675 earned by the program41% of program spendingMembership program: provides membership programs such as communication, publications, education, information, awards, fellowships, etc. For approximately 8,400 members.
$1,085,078 spent$420,244 earned by the program24% of program spendingAnnual meeting: a national conference featuring the presentation of approximately 3000 papers and honoring outstanding scientists
$605,927 spent$783,552 earned by the program14% of program spendingScience policy program: provides educational opportunities and awareness
$261,146 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,448,278.
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 2024 to 2025, from $21M to $37M (+76%).
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. 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.
Chief executive
James Cudahy
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17k → $100k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $57k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Agronomic Science Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY’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
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 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
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record — $24k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Agriculture$12k
- Department of Energy$9k
- Department of Defense$4k
- VT$930
- NJ$150
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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Crop Science Society of America Inc · exempt
- Soil Science Society of America Inc · exempt
- Agronomic Science Foundation Inc · exempt
- Alliance of Crop Soil and Environmental Science Societies Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY: 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 SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY?
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $130,000 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY?
- FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 4 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