Virginia · Nonprofit
FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION
FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,017 to it, the largest being The Andersons Inc Charitable Foundation ($54,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $998k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Fertilizer Education Research and Training Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the fertilizer education, research, and training foundation is to provide science-based information to help educate people about the benefits of fertilizer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Resources and education: the foundation provides numerous educational materials to teachers, students and the public with resources about nutrients, including posters, videos, recipe cards, message cards and activity books. Over 201,057 materials were distributed and over 3.7 million students reached.
$867,600 spent$237,928 earned by the program99% of program spendingOutreach: the foundation reaches out to teachers and students with soil science and stem resources for grades k-12. There are more than 40 resources which are distributed digitally by mail and through onsite meetings and workshops.
$9,481 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $877,081.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.7M to $3.1M (+16%).
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.
63% of FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Harriet Wegmeyer
Executive director
Board chair
Sarah Terrell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $13k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $309k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Fertilizer Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION’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
FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“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
FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Fertilizer Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION: 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 FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION?
- FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,017 to it, the largest being The Andersons Inc Charitable Foundation ($54,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $71,017 in grants to FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION?
- The Andersons Inc Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $54,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FERTILIZER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 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