Arkansas · Nonprofit
National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization
National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,199 to it, the largest being CHS FOUNDATION ($424,025). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $491k
- Net assets
- $553k
What National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization does
Mission
To increase agricultural literacy among K-12 education levels so that agriculture is valued by all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Organization continues to provide web-based lesson plans and companion resources to its members in forty six states and six territories. In addition, it provides website development services for its members so that they can link their websites to the organization's curriculum matrix database of hundreds of rigorous K-12 lesson plans and companion resources. The Organization also provides for a national conference, a national teacher and volunteer awards program, and regional professional development meetings for its members.
$1,966,376 spent$1,882,390 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,966,376.
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 $298k to $511k (+72%).
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 57% · 2018 64% · 2019 48% · 2020 53% · 2021 60% · 2022 59% · 2023 74% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $93k → $110k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization’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
National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 84% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 89% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174 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
National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$6.3M
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 National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% 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 National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization: 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 National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization?
- National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization (Arkansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,199 to it, the largest being CHS FOUNDATION ($424,025). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $491,199 in grants to National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization?
- CHS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $424,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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