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SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC

SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,894 to it, the largest being AGRONOMIC SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC ($33,330). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.3M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$50k
Grants received
$4.7M
Net assets
0/2 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 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2018 Revenue 81 ($2.5M) Expenses 88 ($2.7M) Net assets 87 ($3.5M)2019 Revenue 134 ($4.1M) Expenses 129 ($4.0M) Net assets 106 ($4.3M)2020 Revenue 84 ($2.6M) Expenses 84 ($2.6M) Net assets 116 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 97 ($3.0M) Expenses 84 ($2.6M) Net assets 136 ($5.4M)2022 Revenue 104 ($3.2M) Expenses 104 ($3.2M) Net assets 111 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 106 ($3.3M) Expenses 104 ($3.2M) Net assets 116 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 112 ($3.4M) Expenses 118 ($3.7M) Net assets 113 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 108 ($3.3M) Expenses 110 ($3.4M) Net assets 118 ($4.7M)
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Revenue (108)Expenses (110)Net assets (118)

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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
17
$237k
18
$101k
19
$25k
20
$363k
21
$12k
22
$31k
23
$238k
24
$80k
25
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

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 SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $245k on record.

Federal$245k
grants $245kcontracts $0
21
23
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$245k

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 SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 30%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • American Society of Agronomy · exempt
  • Crop Science Society of America Inc · exempt
  • Agronomic Science Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Alliance of Crop Soil and Environmental Science Societies Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: 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 SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC?
SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,894 to it, the largest being AGRONOMIC SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC ($33,330). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $49,894 in grants to SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC.
Who is the largest funder of SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC?
AGRONOMIC SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing