Michigan · Nonprofit
HILLSDALE COUNTY AG
HILLSDALE COUNTY AG (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,822 to it, the largest being HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($141,260). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Hillsdale County Ag does
Mission
To promote and advance the interest of agriculture, horticulture, household arts and mechanic arts & sciences and all kindred sciences and arts in their varied branches; to develop all forms of youth club work, through education, training, and demonstrations of new skill techniques and knowledge in the arts and sciences related to the youth program conducted in cooperation with and by the michigan state university extension; to promote and conduct agricultural, industrial, educational and recreational fairs and exhibitions, and to provide entertainment and amusement therewith for the purpose of drawing the attention of the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To promote and advance the interest of agriculture, horticulture, household arts and mechanic arts & sciences and all kindred sciences and arts in their varied branches; to develop all forms of youth club work, through education, training, and demonstrations of new skill techniques and knowledge in the arts and sciences related to the youth program conducted in cooperation with and by the michigan state university extension; to promote and conduct agricultural, industrial, educational and recreational fairs and exhibitions, and to provide entertainment and amusement therewith for the purpose of drawing the attention of the general public.
To promote and advance the interest of agriculture, horticulture, household arts and mechanic arts & sciences and all kindred sciences and arts in their varied branches; to develop all forms of youth club work, through education, training, and demonstrations of new skill techniques and knowledge in the arts and sciences related to the youth program conducted in cooperation with and by the michigan state university extension; to promote and conduct agricultural, industrial, educational and recreational fairs and exhibitions, and to provide entertainment and amusement therewith for the purpose of drawing the attention of the general public.
$1,098,669 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,098,669.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $1.8M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 7% · 2019 1% · 2020 14% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of HILLSDALE COUNTY AG’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $20k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HILLSDALE COUNTY AG’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
HILLSDALE COUNTY AG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 HILLSDALE COUNTY AG.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 72% · 2020 100% · 2021 38% · 2022 75% · 2023 89% — 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
80% of HILLSDALE COUNTY AG's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
HILLSDALE COUNTY AG's revenue grew 111% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HILLSDALE COUNTY AG
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILLSDALE COUNTY AG: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HILLSDALE COUNTY AG?
- HILLSDALE COUNTY AG (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,822 to it, the largest being HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($141,260). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HILLSDALE COUNTY AG have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $200,822 in grants to HILLSDALE COUNTY AG, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLSDALE COUNTY AG?
- HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $141,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLSDALE COUNTY AG find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Hillsdale County Ag →
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 7 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