Indiana · Nonprofit
MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION
MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $727 to it, the largest being Alliance for Low Input Sustainable ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $331k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $727
- Net assets
- $209k
What Midwest Regional Turf Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation (mrtf) is to support turf research and education at purdue university for the advancement of the turfgrass industry. To this end, we fund turfgrass researchers at purdue university, financially support operations at the w.h. Daniel turfgrass research and diagnostic center, and sustain the purchase of turf research equipment and operations through endowments. We champion student scholarship and learning on campus by funding undergraduate student scholarships and experiential learning opportunities. We support turf professionals through regional educational and networking opportunities and we recognize the service achievements and professionalism of our members through annual awards.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: we support turf professionals through regional educational and networking opportunities. These opportunities include the indiana green expo, turf & landscape field day, diagnostic training, turf & landscape seminar, and the herbicide workshop. We also recognize the service achievements and professionalism of our members through the award of achievement and the distinguished service award which are presented annually.
$120,103 spent$159,256 earned by the program41% of program spendingResearch: purdue university is home to one of the top turf science programs in the country. The mrtf financially supports turf research at purdue university on turf species and cultivar studies, management trials involving pesticide and biopesticide applications, nutrient cycling and management, drought survival, as well as weed, insect, and disease biology and control. Aside from monies directed to faculty turfgrass research programs, the mrtf financially supports operations at the w.h. Daniel turfgrass research and diagnostic center and funds turf research equipment and operations through endowments.
$167,710 spent$11,801 earned by the program57% of program spendingStudent scholarship: the mrtf values giving back. As part of its mission, the mrtf supports undergraduate student scholarships at purdue university through one endowment and experiential learning opportunities via a second endowment.
$6,750 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $294,563.
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 2017 to 2018, from $250k to $200k (−20%).
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.
44% of MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $81.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF 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
MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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 MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 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
MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227 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
MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $727 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF 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 MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION?
- MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $727 to it, the largest being Alliance for Low Input Sustainable ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $727 in grants to MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION?
- Alliance for Low Input Sustainable is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST REGIONAL TURF FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 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