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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,202 to it, the largest being CROPLIFE AMERICA ($6,202). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$352k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$817k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Association of American Plant Food Officials does

Mission

The association encourages and sponsors adoption of uniform and effective fertilizer inspection techniques by all member agencies, throughout the united states, canada and puerto rico. This includes encouraging and sponsoring the most effective and adequate sampling and inspection techniques, and enforcement practices, while promoting safe and effective use of fertilizers and protection of soil and water resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization has two meetings each year for all members and industry, which provide facilities and opportunities for the free exchange of information, discussion and cooperative study of problems in the fertilizer industry. Also, an administrators seminar is conducted annually. Special topical seminars are also held occasionally.

  2. The organization publishes an official publication, containing current standards, annual reports, uniform policy statements and official terms for its membership, state fertilizer control officials, industry, colleges, extension personnel and public libraries. An inspection manual and inspection video is also published/produced, for use by fertilizer inspectors.

  3. A website is maintained for members, industry and others.

  4. The organization maintains a check sample program for labs worldwide to compare their analysis results with other labs for accuracy.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($285k) Expenses 100 ($196k) Net assets 100 ($542k)2018 Revenue 95 ($272k) Expenses 131 ($257k) Net assets 103 ($558k)2019 Revenue 97 ($277k) Expenses 128 ($251k) Net assets 108 ($584k)2020 Revenue 96 ($275k) Expenses 111 ($217k) Net assets 118 ($641k)2021 Revenue 62 ($178k) Expenses 56 ($110k) Net assets 131 ($709k)2022 Revenue 86 ($246k) Expenses 114 ($223k) Net assets 130 ($703k)2023 Revenue 92 ($262k) Expenses 130 ($254k) Net assets 134 ($728k)2024 Revenue 104 ($298k) Expenses 145 ($285k) Net assets 142 ($771k)2025 Revenue 123 ($352k) Expenses 169 ($332k) Net assets 151 ($817k)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (169)Net assets (151)

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 $642k to $709k (+11%).

$542k
$558k
$584k
$642k
$709k
$703k
$729k
$771k
$817k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$89k
’17
$15k
’18
$26k
’19
$58k
’20
$68k
’21
$23k
’22
$8k
’23
$13k
’24
$20k
’25
15
months of
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.

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Listed899999889
Joined·+2+1+1+1+2+3+1+1
No longer listed·11112410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
Croplife Americaunclassified
$6k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS’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

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 1 state in all.

VA

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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.

State$3k
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Top programs
  • IT Data Services$2k
  • Membership Dues$450
  • Publications And Music$330

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS?
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,202 to it, the largest being CROPLIFE AMERICA ($6,202). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,202 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS?
CROPLIFE AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $6,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PLANT FOOD OFFICIALS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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