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NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL

NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,022 to it, the largest being The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems ($655,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$227k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$735k
Net assets
$165k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Nutrient Stewardship Council does

Mission

Provide nutrient stewardship education and certification

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Administer nutrient stewardship certification program

    $93,800 spent$83,334 earned by the program
    41% of program spending
  2. Provide nutrient stewardship educational programming and outreach

    $133,840 spentof which $83,010 as grants$118,906 earned by the program
    58% of program spending
  3. Provide nutrient stewardship communication

    $2,163 spent$1,921 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $229,803.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($184k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets 100 ($90k)2021 Revenue 131 ($240k) Expenses 134 ($207k) Net assets 175 ($158k)2022 Revenue 67 ($123k) Expenses 82 ($126k) Net assets 172 ($155k)2023 Revenue 82 ($151k) Expenses 87 ($134k) Net assets 191 ($172k)2024 Revenue 86 ($159k) Expenses 104 ($160k) Net assets 190 ($171k)2025 Revenue 123 ($227k) Expenses 151 ($233k) Net assets 182 ($165k)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (123)Expenses (151)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

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 $263k to $225k (−15%).

$241k
$275k
$261k
$233k
$263k
$225k
201920212022202320242025
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’19
$33k
’21
−$3k
’22
$17k
’23
−$970
’24
−$6k
’25
11
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.

Board chair

Nick Franks

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1211101111
Joined·+1+2+2+1
No longer listed·2311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $129k → $100k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
2
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL’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

NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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

89%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 78% · 2019 72% · 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.

FL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve11.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL?
NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,022 to it, the largest being The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems ($655,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $735,022 in grants to NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL?
The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems is the largest funder on record, with $655,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NUTRIENT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2025), 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