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ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION
ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,128,319 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS NUTRIENT RESEARCH & EDUCATION COUNCIL ($3,095,819). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association does
Mission
To assist and represent the crop production supply and service industry and promote the sound stewardship and utilization of agricultural inputs.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Regulatory compliance assistance: we provide assistance to our members to help them comply with a multitude of federal and state regulations pertaining to the storage, transportation and application of agrichemicals and crop nutrients.
Advocacy: we advocate for the industry and shape policy on behalf of the best interest of our members. This includes advocacy with government entities as well as with other agricultural organizations and related industries that interact with agriculture.
Education: we provide safety training and professional business training to our members at various events ifca sponsors throughout the calendar year, and also through the production of written and web-based educational materials.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $3.4M (+21%).
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 10 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.
Board chair
Nate Pierce
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $470k → $290k.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION’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
ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Organizations like ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION: 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 ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION?
- ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,128,319 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS NUTRIENT RESEARCH & EDUCATION COUNCIL ($3,095,819). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,128,319 in grants to ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION?
- ILLINOIS NUTRIENT RESEARCH & EDUCATION COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $3,095,819 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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