National Association of Wheat Growers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480668648
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025477800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,611,908
- Expenses
- $1,553,466
- Assets
- $1,233,467
- Liabilities
- $340,519
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
46 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENT CHEYNE (PAST PRESIDENT UNTIL MARCH 2025)
- PAT CLEMENTS VICE PRESIDENT (UNTIL MARCH 2025, THEN PRESIDENT)
- JAMIE KRESS TREASURER UNTIL (MARCH 2025, THEN VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHANDLER GOULE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- CHANDLER GOULE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $365,710 total reported compensation
- JACOB WESTLIN (V.P. OF POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS): $138,433 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and encourage the common interests and general welfare of wheat growers in the u.s., the advancement of the science of wheat growing, the development of markets, new uses and improved strains for wheat and wheat by-products, good farming and farm marketing practices, and the conservation of natural resources by the u.s. For the benefits of its members.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association's purposes are to initiate and carry out educational, economic and scientific programs related to wheat growers, to bring together in one association all wheat producers and wheat organizations in the united states with a view to coordinate their common interests and provide a means by which its members may benefit by the exchange of experience and views or obtain concerted action in matters affecting their common interests of solving common problems and making decisions for the future of america's wheat producers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 43 of 43 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $366K · 46 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $114K reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.