Maryland · Nonprofit
MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN
MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,309,388 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,031,388). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $437k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $252k
What Mid-Atlantic 4r Nutrient Stewardship Assn does
Mission
Educate farmers on 4r nutrient stewardship
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educate farmers on 4r nutrient stewardship
$328,425 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $328,425.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $153k to $252k (+65%).
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: 2022 39% · 2023 6% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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.
Board chair
Ben Hushon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14k → $347k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN’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
MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
85% 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 MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 72% — 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
MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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
MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% 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 MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN: 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 MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN?
- MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,309,388 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,031,388). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,309,388 in grants to MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,031,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-ATLANTIC 4R NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP ASSN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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