MINNESOTA CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION

As filed

Subsection

05

Classification

1000

Street

500 E TRAVELERS TRAIL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Member and Consumer Engagement (MCE) Team The MCE team has a broad and diverse list of organizations with whom it partners. In addition to promoting and educating people about corn and corn farming and the items necessary to conducting those activities, the MCE team supports projects at venues such as the Minnesota State Fair, MN Landscape Arboretum and Farm America, along with agricultural organizations such as Minnesota Agri growth Council and Minnesota Agricultural Rural Leadership. The MCE team continues to sponsor work conducted by more than 100 community, state, regional and national groups and utilizes a partnership with Twin Cities Road Crew to promote corn at school and community events. Matching programs that support the activities of fifty-two county corn organizations are funded through this team. Four district field managers assist our county affiliates and participate in more than 200 events.

• Discovery & Development (D&D) Team The Discovery and Development team directs the investment of resources toward discovery of best practices maximizing sustainable production and discovery of new or increasing uses of corn. The team continues long term support of water quality, nutrient management, agricultural extension education specialist at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Agriculture Water Resources Center and Minnesota Discovery Farms. The team has supported multiple research projects focused on nitrogen use efficiency. The team invests in research to advance progression of basic research to practical technologies in bio-based products derived from corn. Farmer led innovation grants have produced notable success in discovery and implementation of improved nutrient management and sustainable practices.

• Utilization Team (UT) Team The Utilization Team is tasked with building value-added opportunities for all corn farmers in Minnesota. It is also tasked with expanding domestic and international markets, all towards increased profitability of corn farmers. To that end, the team takes published research from the Discovery and Development Team that requires implementation and/or scale production and marketability into the industrial sector for scale-up. One of the significant endeavors of the team this past year is ethanol marketing including Radio, television, billboards, and digital display resulting in more than 100 million impressions. The team continues to be involved in several national organizations such as U.S. Grains Council, U.S. Meat Export Federation, and Growth Energy.

• CommunicationsNumerous communications via broadcast, web-based, outdoor, special event, and print media activities are conducted each year through Minnesota's corn organizations. The communications efforts result in millions of media impressions throughout the state and region in addition to base communications projects planned and executed each year. Focus teams and committees direct special projects to communications staff when they involve a communications component. These may range from straight forward, one-time newspaper advertisements associated with an event or tradeshow, to months-long, multi-partner, coalition-based campaigns. Communications staff also oversee social media activities for the organization and act as the point of contact for journalists.

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,122,747

  Expenses

  $5,251,028

  Contributions

  $1,000

  Grants paid

  $865,575

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,564,983

  Expenses

  $5,616,571

  Contributions

  $1,000

  Grants paid

  $674,607

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,635,866

  Expenses

  $5,784,893

  Contributions

  $300

  Grants paid

  $1,050,868

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,629,781

  Expenses

  $6,738,061

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,976,064

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,971,118

  Expenses

  $6,183,836

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,037,719

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,494,392

  Expenses

  $5,750,645

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,637,072

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,156,214

  Expenses

  $6,040,604

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,284,488

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,836,574

  Expenses

  $5,770,745

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,161,466

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,809,358

  Expenses

  $5,633,404

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,189,321

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,125,464

  Expenses

  $4,849,088

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,984,581

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,864,385

  Expenses

  $4,642,688

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,691,636

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,308,531

  Expenses

  $4,996,903

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,579,704

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $5,221,826

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,367,468

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• Renewable Fuel Association

  $150,000

  2024 · Education & Awareness

• Gophers Sports Properties

  $107,600

  2022 · Education & Awareness

• MN Ag In The Classroom

  $100,000

  2024 · Education & Awareness

• Fluence Media

  $100,000

  2022 · Education & Awareness

• MN Agriculture in the Classroom

  $100,000

  2022 · Education & Awareness

• Gophers Sports Properties

  $77,700

  2024 · Education & Awareness

• Fluence Media

  $72,500

  2023 · Education & Awareness

• MN Agricultural & Rural Leadership

  $70,000

  2022 · Education & Awareness

• MN Agriculture and Rural Leadership

  $65,000

  2024 · Education & Awareness

• Fluence Media

  $60,000

  2024 · Education & Awareness

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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