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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,350 to it, the largest being CROPLIFE AMERICA ($105,850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$38M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$143k
Net assets
$7.9M
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What National Association of State Departments of Agriculture does

Mission

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (nasda) enhances american food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Nasda-nass cooperative program:this program's objective is to serve the united states, its agricultural producers, and rural communities by providing meaningful, accurate, and objective statistical information and services. Under the cooperative agreement, nasda employs over 2,000 part-time enumerators who collect and supply nass with statistical data from producer surveys. This cooperative agreement has been in place since 1972.

  2. Policy:nasda policy staff work on behalf of nasda members in the development, implementation and communication of sound public policy. Nasda's policy staff work on legislative and regulatory initiatives that help support nasda's mission to enhance american food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement.nasda impacts national food and agriculture policy by harnessing our members' unique role in the nexus between federal and state policy-making. Nasda is especially focused on our primary policy priorities: 1. Farm bill 2. Food systems 3. State cooperative agreement funding 4. Pesticide regulations 5. Pfas.

  3. Since 1983, nasda has held a cooperative agreement (ca) with the foreign agricultural service (fas) of usda. Nasda uses funds from the market access program (map) to produce two annual domestic trade show pavilions in partnership with the national restaurant association and the world trade center miami (wtcm). Nasda works with staff in the usda/fas overseas offices to recruit qualified buyers from all over the world to attend these trade shows. The primary goal is to promote u.s. Agriculture and food products by helping small and medium size u.s. Food and beverage companies export their products all over the world. Nasda has hosted a taste of the states: chicago at the national restaurant show for more than 20 years. The pavilion features more than 100 small and medium u.s. Food and beverage companies who are seeking international markets for their products. The show is visited by more than 50,000 food service leaders from all 50 states and 120 countries. Nasda has hosted a taste of the states: miami at the americas food & beverage (afb) show, in partnership with the world trade center miami, since 2005. Given its prime location for reaching latin america, exhibitors gain valuable…

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The 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 ($47M) Expenses 100 ($47M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 91 ($43M) Expenses 91 ($42M) Net assets 129 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 80 ($38M) Expenses 80 ($37M) Net assets 147 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 68 ($32M) Expenses 67 ($31M) Net assets 176 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 48 ($23M) Expenses 47 ($22M) Net assets 228 ($5.3M)2022 Revenue 58 ($27M) Expenses 57 ($27M) Net assets 249 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 83 ($39M) Expenses 81 ($38M) Net assets 295 ($6.8M)2024 Revenue 81 ($38M) Expenses 81 ($38M) Net assets 317 ($7.4M)2025 Revenue 80 ($38M) Expenses 81 ($38M) Net assets 341 ($7.9M)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (81)Net assets (341)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $7.9M to $12M (+47%).

$4.3M
$6.7M
$6.3M
$6.6M
$7.9M
$12M
$14M
$12M
$15M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$557k
’17
$685k
’18
$404k
’19
$677k
’20
$985k
’21
$635k
’22
$1.3M
’23
$337k
’24
$245k
’25
1.0
months of
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.

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Listed202223182021232222
Joined·+9+9+5+9+8+6+7+5
No longer listed·781077485
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $33k.

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE’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 ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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

97% 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 ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE.

74%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.

Where its funders are

74% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

IN
CO
VA
NM
DC

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

’19
’21
’22
’23
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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Nasda Research Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE?
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,350 to it, the largest being CROPLIFE AMERICA ($105,850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $143,350 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE?
CROPLIFE AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $105,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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