· Public charity
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $942k
- $250k+21 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,746,812 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON | $2,500,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $2,500,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,223,474 |
| SWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER | $2,000,000 |
| TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH | $1,709,281 |
| AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA) | $1,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES | $1,344,764 |
| TWO BLADES FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | $881,526 |
| TECHNOLOGY MATTERS | $749,999 |
| RICH EARTH INSTITUTE | $669,739 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $450,000 |
| CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $449,989 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII | $449,942 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $645k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $4.0M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: DRUG DISCOVERY APPROACH TO IDENTIFY NEW BIOLOGICAL NITRIFICATION INHIBITORS · THIS PROGRAM IS MEANT TO ADVANCE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE CEA SECTOR, MAKING IT POTENTIALLY NET POSITIVE IN TERMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND GHG EMISSIONS. THE CEA SECTOR, WHICH SPAN MULTIPLE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FROM GREENHOUSES TO VERTICAL FARMS, IS THOUGHT OF AS A MORE SUSTAINABLE FORM OF AGRICULTURE THAT MAKES NUTRITIOUS, REGIONALLY PRODUCED FOOD AVAILABLE YEAR-ROUND. AS PRODUCTION FACILITIES, CEA CLAIMS TO USE LESS LAND, WATER, FERTILIZER, AND PESTICIDES, WITH THE DRAWBACK OF HIGHER ENERGY USE ATTRIBUTED TO LIGHTING AND TEMPERATURE REGULATION. THESE CLAIMS ARE BASED ON INTERNAL PRODUCTION ANALYSES, E.G., LESS WATER IS ACTUALLY USED WITHIN THE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND MORE HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCE CAN BE GROWN IN A GIVEN AREA. WHAT THEY MISS IS THAT IN THE CONTEXT OF A REGIONAL SYSTEM, THERE ARE TRADE-OFFS ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT SOURCES OF WATER, ENERGY, AND LAND THAT COULD INCREASE.
Stated purpose: FAST-TRACK ON-FARM IMPACT FROM THE COOL SOIL INITIATIVE TO ENHANCE THE CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF AUSTRALIA'S GRAIN PRODUCERS
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $24M · revenue +42%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2022 · $3.8M · revenue +196%- TOTHE ORGANIC CENTER INC2× · 2021–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- ESECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue +60%
- ESECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM LLCone grant, 2019 · $10M
- TETHE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATIONone grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue +14%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
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To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
How this is measured
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 163 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC ↗
- Who funds ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MARKET CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds Dairy Science Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation ↗
- Who funds SWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ORGANIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Native American Agriculture Fund ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds KIRCHNER IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGLAUNCH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Chemical Society · Patagoniaorg · Cornell University · Gates Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Extension Foundation · United States Golf Association · University of Delaware · West Virginia University Research Corporation · Community Foundation for San Benito County
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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