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Hop Research Council

Hop Research Council (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $88,000 to it, the largest being HOP QUALITY GROUP INC ($88,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$88k
Net assets
$230k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Hop Research Council does

Mission

Solicit & provide funds for scientific investigation and research related to agricultural production & quality of hops in the United States. To serve the needs of all segments of the hop industry by maintaining a membership which covers the entire industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided research grants to various non-profits or educational institutions for studies relating to the production and quality of hops in the United States of America.

    $1,378,317 spentof which $384,979 as grants
    86% of program spending
  2. Hop breeding and Genomics - breeding program trials in the form of funding grow outs, processing, and plant costs is one of the six core research priorities of the Council and benefits the entire industry by contributing toward the development of new public varieties, which are available to all growers.

    $227,884 spent
    14% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,606,201.

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 ($611k) Expenses 100 ($551k) Net assets 100 ($261k)2018 Revenue 93 ($570k) Expenses 34 ($188k) Net assets 260 ($681k)2019 Revenue 87 ($534k) Expenses 117 ($643k) Net assets 218 ($571k)2020 Revenue 101 ($615k) Expenses 112 ($617k) Net assets 216 ($564k)2021 Revenue 121 ($740k) Expenses 112 ($617k) Net assets 263 ($687k)2022 Revenue 112 ($683k) Expenses 111 ($612k) Net assets 290 ($758k)2023 Revenue 146 ($890k) Expenses 169 ($932k) Net assets 274 ($716k)2024 Revenue 143 ($876k) Expenses 178 ($982k) Net assets 234 ($610k)2025 Revenue 173 ($1.1M) Expenses 261 ($1.4M) Net assets 88 ($230k)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (261)Net assets (88)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $656k (−42%).

$314k
$688k
$571k
$654k
$687k
$843k
$1.1M
$656k
$489k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 19% · 2024 21% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’17
$381k
’18
−$110k
’19
−$2k
’20
$123k
’21
$71k
’22
−$42k
’23
−$106k
’24
−$381k
’25
2.8
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed444454544
Joined·+0+1+0+2+1+1+1+1
No longer listed·01012021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17k → $35k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
$88k
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Hop Research Council’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

Hop Research Council draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

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

Organizations like Hop Research Council

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hop Research Council: 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 Hop Research Council?
Hop Research Council (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $88,000 to it, the largest being HOP QUALITY GROUP INC ($88,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Hop Research Council have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $88,000 in grants to Hop Research Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hop Research Council?
HOP QUALITY GROUP INC is the largest funder on record, with $88,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hop Research Council find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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