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NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION

NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,400 to it, the largest being CORN REFINERS ASSOCIATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.8M
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$20k
Grants received
$-2103768
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 132 ($1.4M) Expenses 145 ($2.0M) Net assets 45 ($493k)2019 Revenue 150 ($1.6M) Expenses 154 ($2.2M) Net assets -2 ($-23196)2020 Revenue 160 ($1.7M) Expenses 162 ($2.3M) Net assets -51 ($-561636)2021 Revenue 115 ($1.3M) Expenses 121 ($1.7M) Net assets -68 ($-747837)2022 Revenue 168 ($1.8M) Expenses 170 ($2.4M) Net assets -138 ($-1507664)2023 Revenue 276 ($3.0M) Expenses 231 ($3.2M) Net assets -115 ($-1260310)2024 Revenue 348 ($3.8M) Expenses 311 ($4.4M) Net assets -147 ($-1616632)2025 Revenue 443 ($4.8M) Expenses 382 ($5.4M) Net assets -192 ($-2103768)
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Revenue (443)Expenses (382)Net assets (-192)

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: 2017 89% · 2018 95% · 2019 92% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 93% · 2024 90% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

−$313k
’17
−$601k
’18
−$525k
’19
−$539k
’20
−$441k
’21
−$558k
’22
−$235k
’23
−$567k
’24
−$520k
’25
0.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $0.

Funder
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'18
'19
'23
total
Pet Food Instituteunclassified
$400
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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 ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 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

NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

’17
’18
’19
Virginia 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.9M on record — $48.9M federal, $88k state.

Federal$48.9M
grants $48.9Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$30.8M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$13.6M
  • Environmental Protection Agency$4.5M
State$88k
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Top programs
  • SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS$63k
  • AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$13k
  • INTERAGENCY LEASE PAYMENTS$10k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$2k

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 ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture83%Arcadia Food Inc74%National Association of State Boards of Education72%National Wildlife Federation72%Foodshed Capital72%Researchamerica72%School Nutrition Foundation71%Fats and Proteins Research Foundation71%

Nationally

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture83%Cooperative League of the United States of America77%American Farmland Trust77%Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota76%North East State Foresters Association76%National Save The Family Farm Coalition76%Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship Inc76%The New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association76%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • National Association of State Departments of Agriculture · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,400 to it, the largest being CORN REFINERS ASSOCIATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,400 in grants to NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
CORN REFINERS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing