Illinois · Nonprofit
Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration
Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $477k
What Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration does
Mission
The innovation center for u.s. Dairy was organized for the purpose of fostering harmony, cooperation, and innovation through a pre-competitive collaborative forum of the dairy industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The innovation center for u.s. Dairy in coordination with other dairy industry organizations assisted in the fundraising for and facilitation of sustainability goals to drive a more sustainable future for agriculture. The innovation center for us dairy has a goal to advance a shared social responsibility platform and demonstrate u.s. Dairy's collective commitment to provide the world responsibly produced dairy foods that nourish people, strengthen communities and foster a sustainable future.
Innovation center for us dairy food safety committee - the goal of this group is to identify, document, and broadly distribute best practices in dairy manufacturing to ensure the safety of consumers by reducing pathogen risks in dairy products. This group is made up of the leadership and subject matter experts from dairy processors, owners of small dairy processors, academia, and extension professionals who volunteer their time and share their knowledge. Our stated mission is to "strengthen manufacturing practices in all dairy processing facilities and advance science-based tools to diminish food safety risks that could compromise the reputation of the u.s. Dairy industry".
The innovation center for u.s. Dairy's fundraising and administrative operations supported the innovation center.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 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. 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 $281k to $608k (+116%).
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.
61% of Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Barbara O'Brien
President & CEO
Board chair
Mike Durkin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 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 Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration’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
Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, 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.
Against its field
Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Dairy Management Inc · exempt
- National Dairy Council · exempt
- United Dairy Industry Association · exempt
- Dairy Science Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration: 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 Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration?
- Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration?
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dairy Center for Strategic Innovation and Collaboration find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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