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SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,190,000 to it, the largest being IOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION ($1,125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$1.2M
Grants received
$928k
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%

Against its field

SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 324 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve10.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 324 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($808k) Expenses 100 ($813k) Net assets 100 ($87k)2018 Revenue 97 ($786k) Expenses 97 ($790k) Net assets 95 ($83k)2019 Revenue 97 ($787k) Expenses 97 ($787k) Net assets 96 ($83k)2020 Revenue 55 ($442k) Expenses 55 ($444k) Net assets 93 ($81k)2021 Revenue 85 ($687k) Expenses 85 ($689k) Net assets 90 ($79k)2022 Revenue 294 ($2.4M) Expenses 186 ($1.5M) Net assets 1080 ($942k)2023 Revenue 292 ($2.4M) Expenses 259 ($2.1M) Net assets 1363 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 245 ($2.0M) Expenses 224 ($1.8M) Net assets 930 ($811k)2025 Revenue 173 ($1.4M) Expenses 158 ($1.3M) Net assets 1064 ($928k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (173)Expenses (158)Net assets (1064)Peer revenue range

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

34% of SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 638 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
−$4k
’18
$205
’19
−$2k
’20
−$3k
’21
$863k
’22
$247k
’23
$160k
’24
$117k
’25
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $700k → $425k.

Funder
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

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

Where its funders are

95% of SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

WI
IA

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

’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

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.

Organizations like SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

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 Iowa

Soy Aquaculture Alliance Inc82%North Central Soybean Research Program80%Greene County Development Corp80%Soy Transportation Coalition80%Iowa Soybean Association79%Siouxland Regional Cancer Center78%University of Iowa Strategic Initiatives Fund77%Great River Health Foundation Inc77%

Nationally

Mid-South Soybean Board86%Ohio Soybean Council82%Soy Aquaculture Alliance Inc82%South Dakota Pork Producers Council81%Maryland Soybean Board81%South Central Economic Development District Inc81%Missouri Soybean Association81%North Central Soybean Research Program80%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Iowa Soybean Association · exempt
  • Ag Technology & Environmental Stewardship Foundation · exempt
  • Soy for Life Foundation · exempt
  • Isa Management Solutions Inc · corp_trust
  • Agoutcomes Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: 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 SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,190,000 to it, the largest being IOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION ($1,125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,190,000 in grants to SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
IOWA SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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