Minnesota Corn Growers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411369512
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burnsville, MN, USA
- Phone
- 9522330333
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,122,747
- Expenses
- $5,251,028
- Assets
- $3,635,166
- Liabilities
- $993,207
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Kanten (President)
- Wesley Beck (Vice President)
- Adam Birr (Executive Director/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Adam Birr (Executive Director/CEO): $305,999 total reported compensation
- Amanda Bilek (Sr. Public Policy Director): $146,589 total reported compensation
- Wuraola Olusanya-Oyebamiji (Sr. Finance Director/CFO): $127,830 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Identify and promote opportunities for corn growers while enhancing quality of life.
What it reported doing in 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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.1%; rating input score 95; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $306K · 23 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $593K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 15 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 49 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 20 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.