North Carolina · Nonprofit
SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE
SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,267,642 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($9,942,278). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Soil Health Institute does
Mission
The Soil Health Institute is a global non-profit with a mission of safeguarding and enhancing the vitality and productivity of soils through scientific research and advancement. The institute brings(continued on schedule o) together leaders in soil health science and the industry to conduct research and empower farmers and other landowners with the knowledge to successfully adopt regenerative soil health systems that contribute economic and environmental benefits to agriculture and society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Soil Health Institute's comprehensive strategy to safeguard and enhance the vitality and productivity of soil employs four levers of change: business case, measurement, research & development, and education & outreach. We collaborate with farmers and ranchers, advisors, government officials, and industry professionals to enable standardized, scientifically credible soil health decision making at scale. In the business case, shi published research on more than 160 north american farms that demonstrates long-term adoption of soil health (continued on schedule o)systems reduces costs, increases net income, and mitigates risks across climates and production systems. In measurement, shi recommended 3 essential soil health indicators and established how healthy soils can become on more than 19 million acres of cropland so farmers, advisors, and industry can set soil health goals and track progress. In research and development, shi is developing tools to more accurately model and measure improvements in soil health, like water storage and availability, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient availability, and erosion. In education, shi established and conducted soil health…
$7,711,867 spentof which $1,015,238 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,711,867.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.2M to $11M (+47%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 14% · 2024 45% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Charles Wayne Honeycutt
President/CEO
Board chair
Diana Jerkins
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $10M → $3.5M.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE’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
SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 78% · 2019 98% · 2020 70% · 2021 34% · 2022 88% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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
22% of SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record.
- Department of Energy$4.3M
- Department of Agriculture$1.2M
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 SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE: 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 SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,267,642 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($9,942,278). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $33,267,642 in grants to SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH is the largest funder on record, with $9,942,278 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing