Iowa Specialty Crop Growers Associa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 426075850
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Ames, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152960586
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,671
- Expenses
- $22,210
- Assets
- $55,835
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAURY WILLS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEVEN BLACK (BOARD MEMBER)
- MAURY WILLS (PRESIDENT)
- BENJAMIN DEAL (SECRETARY/TR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Iowa specialty crop growers association promotes Iowa grown fruits, vegetables, and specialty crops and advocates for the industry. The organization shares ideas and experiences among growers that leads to effective problem solving and innovative growing practices. The organization strives to strengthen specialty crop production in the state and create a higher quality product.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote Iowa grown fruits, vegetables, and specialty crops and provide a strong advocacy for the industry. Share ideas and experiences among growers for problem solving and innovative growing practices to produce high quality products.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.51; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.