Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$23,708,518

Total expenses

$25,232,234

Contributions and grants received

$0

Grants paid

$23,654,916

Program service revenue

$23,146,710

Investment income

$561,808

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$21,044,256

Total liabilities, end of year

$256,529

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$20,787,727

Program services expenses (Part IX)

— not reported

Management and general expenses

— not reported

Fundraising expenses

— not reported

Program service expenses (Part III)

— not reported

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• RESEARCH: THE IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARD INVESTS IN RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TO DEVELOP HIGHER VALUE INDUSTRIAL USES FOR CORN TO INCREASE THE DEMAND AND THE VALUE OF CORN AS A RAW MATERIAL. THE RESEARCH PROGRAMS ALSO PUT CORN GROWER DOLLARS TO WORK BY DEVELOPING CORN TRAITS TO IMPROVE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY OF GROWING CORN. SEVERAL PATENTS HAVE BEEN AWARDED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOPLASTICS AND BIOCHEMICALS TO MAKE REVEWABLE PLASTIC MATERIAL. THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS INVEST IN COMPANIES AND LEVERAGE THE PATENTS TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LONG TERM PROFITABILITY OF CORN GROWERS.

• MARKET DEVELOPMENT: THE IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARD (ICPB) PARTICIPATES IN ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS THAT EXPAND DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL MARKETS TO INCREASE DEMAND FOR CORN IN ALL FORMS. ICPB PARTNERS WITH THE US MEAT EXPORT FEDERATION AND THE US GRAINS COUNCIL TO BUILD DEMAND INTERNATIONALLY FOR CORN AND CORN PRODUCTS/MEAT. ICPB INVESTMENT IN THOSE TRADE PARTNERS IS MULTIPLIED THROUGH THE INVOLVEMENT OF MANY CORN STATES AND MATCHED WITH GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT. IN STATE, ICPB WORKS TO MAINTAIN AND GROW IOWA'S LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY THROUGH THE COALITION TO SUPPORT IOWA'S FARMERS (CSIF), A COALITION EFFORT WITH 7 OTHER COMMODITY GROUPS. ETHANOL IS A LEADING MARKET FOR IOWA CORN AND THE ICPB WORKS TO PROMOTE THE USE OF CORN ETHANOL THROUGH PUBLIC EVENTS AS WELL AS MULTI-PLATFORM ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS THAT INCLUDE BROADCAST, PRINT, RADIO, DIRECT MAIL, DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA. ICPB IS ALSO WORKING TO INCREASE HIGHER BLENDS OF ETHANOL IN IOWA AND ACROSS THE U.S. WITH INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS.

• EDUCATION/PROMOTIONS: THE IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARD (ICPB) EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WORK TO REACH BOTH PRODUCER AND CONSUMER AUDIENCES ABOUT THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL VITALITY OF THE CORN INDUSTRY IN THE STATE OF IOWA. EDUCATION ABOUT CORN AND THE PRODUCTS MADE FROM CORN HAPPENS THROUGH ADVERTISING, EARNED MEDIA, AND VARIOUS PROMOTIONAL EVENTS. THROUGH A MULTI-PLATFORM PROMOTION AND OUTREACH CAMPAIGN CALLED THE IOWA CORN CYHAWK SERIES, THE ICPB PROMOTES IOWA CORN AND THE FARMERS THAT GROW IT. THE IOWA CORN MOBILE EDUCATION CENTER (ICMEC) TELLS THE STORY OF FARMERS AND THE OVER 4,000 PRODUCTS MADE FROM CORN. THE ICMEC TRAVELS THE STATE TO REACH CONSUMERS, FARMERS, AND STUDENTS. DISTRICT AND COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS USE CORN MATERIALS TO TALK WITH STUDENTS AND CONSUMERS ABOUT FARMERS AND FOOD, FEED AND FUEL MADE FROM CORN. EDUCATION OF CONSUMERS AND PRODUCERS HAPPENS IN STATE AND ON A NATIONAL LEVEL THROUGH WORKING WITH NATIONAL AND OTHER STATE CORN ASSOCIATIONS ON JOINT PROGRAMS, SUCH AS COMMONGROUND. IN IOWA, EDUCATION ALSO TAKES PLACE BY LEVERAGING PEOPLE AND INVESTMENTS WITH AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN AGRICULTURE.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• IOWA CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION

  $23,654,916

  GRANT TO CARRY OUT PROGRAMS OF THE IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARD

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

2 March 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202620639349300017

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