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GEORGIA CROP IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 58-0623886 ATHENS, GA

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Revenue 2024
$2,176,687
Expenses 2024
$1,778,154

Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
05
Classification
1000
Street
2425 S MILLEDGE AVE

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

Mission

TO PROVIDE UNBIASED, THIRD-PARTY INSPECTION/AUDITING SERVICES TO AGRICULTURE IN THE SEED, GRAIN, FOOD AND RELATED INDUSTRIES WITH PRIMARY EMPHASIS ON SEED AND TURFGRASS CERTIFICATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE GEORGIA CROP IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION IS AN INDEPENDENT, NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION PROVIDING UNBIASED, THIRD PARTY INSPECTION/AUDITING SERVICES TO AGRICULTURE IN THE SEED, FOOD AND RELATED INDUSTRIES WITH PRIMARY EMPHASIS ON SEED AND TURFGRASS CERTIFICATION.

  • THE PURPOSE OF THE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM IS TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY, PROFITABILITY AND EFFICIENCY OF AGRICULTURE BY PROVIDING UNBIASED INSPECTION/AUDITING AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES TO INCLUDE: 1. DEVELOPING AND ADOPTING STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF SEED GROWN BY MEMBERS UNDER THE RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 2. PROVIDING AN INSPECTION/AUDIT SERVICE FOR GROWING SEED CROPS, TURF AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. 3. COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION PERTINENT TO CLIENTS' NEEDS BY EXHIBIT, DEMONSTRATIONS, ETC. 4. PROVIDING INFORMATION AND PROMOTING ACTIVITIES OF INTEREST AND BENEFIT TO PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS OF SEED, TURF AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES.

    Expenses $909,719 · Revenue $1,376,276

  • THE GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES PROGRAM FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (GAPP)IS DESIGNED TO: 1. MINIMIZE MICROBIAL FOOD HAZARDS 2. MINIMIZE OR ELIMINATE DAMAGING PROCTICES TO THE ENVIRONMENT 3. PROMOTE WORKER HEALTH AND HYGIENE 4. PROMOTE FOOD SAFETY 5. PROMOTE THE USE OF FOOD SECURITY PRACTICES 6. PROVIDE THIRD PARTY INSPECTION/AUDITING SERVICE WHEN REQUIRED 7. PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION OF THE USE OF GAPP PROCEDURES BY PRODUCERS 8. EDUCATE CONSUMERS THE GAPP PROGRAM IS A JOINT EFFORT OF THE GEORGIA CROP IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, THE GEORGIA FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GROWERS ASSOCIATION, THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENTS OF FOOD SCIENCE AND HORTICULTURE.

    Expenses $53,940 · Revenue $91,469

  • THE GEORGIA CROP IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION'S (GCIA) ORGANIC CERTIFICATION PROGRAM IS A NATURAL EXTENSION OF THIRD-PARTY CERTIFYING ACTIVITIES REGULARLY PERFORMED FOR SEED, QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IDENTITY PRESERVED PROGRAMS CURRENTLY OFFERED. THE GCIA ORGANIC CERTIFICATION PROGRAM IS COMMITTED TO ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND AND ECONOMICALLY VIABLE PRODUCTION OF FOOD AND ENCOURAGES THE PRESERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES, THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOIL QUALITY AND HEALTH THROUGH ORGANIC AND SUSTAINABLE FARMING PRACTICES AND TO FOSTER THE PRODUCTION OF HEALTHY LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION.

    Expenses $443,089 · Revenue $605,464

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.

  • William D Skaggs

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $177,635
    From this org
    $172,555
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,080
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,000
    Bonus
    $14,784
    Other
    $7,771
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,080
    Filer's total
    $177,635
  • Bill Bullard

    2ND VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Chad Chandler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jutt Howard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Brian Ogletree

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Albert Rogers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Reed Rogers

    1ST VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Chris Roquemore

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Blake Shepard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Drew Watkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

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
    $2,176,687
    Expenses
    $1,778,154
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,894,175
    Expenses
    $1,763,391
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,625,905
    Expenses
    $1,624,501
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $5,000

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
    $1,565,826
    Expenses
    $1,393,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,567,153
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,623,314
    Expenses
    $1,378,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,364,963
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,537,570
    Expenses
    $1,378,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,099,008
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,471,394
    Expenses
    $1,417,678
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,954,226
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,654,007
    Expenses
    $1,379,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,912,394
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,681,309
    Expenses
    $1,312,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,639,894
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,535,257
    Expenses
    $1,190,175
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,316,898
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,331,182
    Expenses
    $1,120,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $957,802
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $999,247
    Expenses
    $1,063,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $870,953
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,138,710
    Assets (EOY)
    $801,483

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • AGRICULTURAL AUDITS LLC

    NO BUSINES · GA

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.