North Carolina · Nonprofit
COTTON INCORPORATED
COTTON INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $116,700 to it, the largest being Texas Pest Management Association ($116,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $117k
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Cotton Incorporated does
Mission
Cotton Incorporated, funded by u.s. Growers of upland cotton and importers of cotton and cotton textile products, is the research and marketing company representing upland cotton. The program is designed and operated to improve the demand for and profitability of cotton.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Consumer marketing committee the advertising department continued into year two of the brand platform, the fabric of now. This full scale 360 effort launched in april 2025 with :15 second and :06 second videos (commercials). This campaign has been live since its launch on april 1 across both linear television (abc & fox) and streaming platforms to drive awareness of the campaign. The linear portion (abc & fox) ran for a six-week flight in the second quarter of 2025 and did not resume in 2025. The second quarter linear tv overall saw 21,370,000 impressions (women and men ages 18-49) as of may 31. Abc & fox were eliminated for the second half of the 2025 calendar year after careful evaluation of cost versus return on investment (Cotton Incorporated has shifted away from linear television completely in 2026). The streaming portion of the campaign is always-on through the end of the fourth quarter across amazon, discovery+, hulu, disney studio experience (dse), max, netflix, paramount+, peacock, roku, and youtube select. Streaming is projected to deliver 326,485,528 impressions (women and men ages 18-34). Digital campaigns extend across video ad serving networks, digital banners, site…
$0 spentGlobal supply chain marketing committee the global supply chain marketing (gscm) division works with manufacturers, brands, and retailers worldwide to influence the use of cotton in products. In 2025, there were an additional 13.5 million products in stores carrying the seal of cotton trademark. We had 29 new seal of cotton trademark licensees in 2025. There was more than $240m in cotton utilized. More than 40 million cotton products were influenced by technology marketing. More than 2.8m bales of cotton were consumed through licensed and technology-driven products. The mexico city staff hosted its major in-person annual promotional event, the sourcing & innovation forum 2025 in mexico city. The event gathered 180 executives from 95 key mexican brands, retailers, garment manufacturers, and textile mills. This event included an innovative sourcing display exhibiting over 550 cotton-rich fabrics and 115 garments from 47 latin american manufacturers. The purpose was to support the sales of cotton products by connecting buyers and producers in response to a potential new sourcing landscape in the region. Additionally, other major resources such as the fabricast collection, digital…
$0 spentAgricultural research committee the agricultural and environmental research department (aerd) manages the program area that most directly influences u.s. Cotton producers. Its unique mission is to improve the profitability of u.s. Cotton production by funding the creation of agricultural innovations and their adoption by cotton producers. Aerd has five key strategic areas for 2025: pest management, cottonseed, sustainability support, emerging technologies, and genomics. For pest management, aerd staff funded research to address resistant weeds and integrate other mechanical, non-herbicidal control options. Pathology research focused on expanding our understanding of environmental drivers of disease as well as to better understand the impacts on yield loss by state across the belt. This year, entomology focused on pests driving highest losses, costs and emerging threats to production such as deer and cotton jassid. The cottonseed program focused on understanding the dose necessary the benefits to human health and animal nutrition with an emphasis on publishing recent dairy trials utilizing whole cottonseed in rations. For emerging technologies research on alternative harvest…
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2019 to 2020, from $17M to $25M (+50%).
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
William Kimbrell
President & CEO
Board chair
Marvin Beyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $24k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cotton Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COTTON INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of COTTON INCORPORATED’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
COTTON INCORPORATED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state 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 COTTON INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $605k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$605k
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 COTTON INCORPORATED
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COTTON INCORPORATED?
- COTTON INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $116,700 to it, the largest being Texas Pest Management Association ($116,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COTTON INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $116,700 in grants to COTTON INCORPORATED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COTTON INCORPORATED?
- Texas Pest Management Association is the largest funder on record, with $116,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COTTON INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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