· Public charity
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
The mission of the GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of nutritious and safe foods, and reducing the consumption of unhealthy and unsafe foods.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TECHNOSERVE INC | $140,000 |
| ENGENDERHEALTH INC | $110,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its 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: $3.6M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: FORTIFICATION · CROSS CUTTING PROJECTS · ENHANCING VALUE CHAINS FOR UNDER CONSUMED FOODS
Stated purpose: FORTIFICATION · WORKFORCE NUTRITION · ENABLING COHERENT FOOD SYSTEMS POLICIES
Stated purpose: ENHANCING VALUE CHAINS FOR UNDER CONSUMED FOODS · CROSS CUTTING PROJECTS · THRIVING NUTRITION ENTERPRISE
Stated purpose: EMPOWERING FOOD SYSTEMS ACTORS · ENABLING COHERENT FOOD SYSTEMS POLICIES · CROSS CUTTING PROJECTS
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 +42% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IDINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +42%
Cornell University4× · 2019–2023 · $430k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BCBUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INCone grant, 2024 · $153k · revenue -9%
- ILINTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $119k · revenue -2%
- MFMicronutrient Forumgraduated2× · 2019–2021 · $63k · revenue +482%
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds BUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Micronutrient Forum ↗
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: Gates Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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