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Institute for Feed Education and Research Inc

Ifeeder's mission is to advance understanding and trust in a sustainable animal feed and pet food supply chain through timely research and education.

$605k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$320k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$1.0MSocial Science$647kEducation$411kFood & Nutrition$148kCommunity Improvement$80kHealth$58k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $527,845, the rows itemized in this filing. The $605,001 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,156 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
  • $250k+1 grant · $320k
$54,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONS$319,895
CONTEXT NETWORK$105,712
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$54,500
NORTH AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE$25,000
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$16,667
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECH$6,071
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%CAL POLY: $6k → 12%UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $332k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $22k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $55k → 14%DECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONS: $320k → 10%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECH: $59k → 15%SWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER: $25k → 17%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%CENTER FOR FOOD INTEGRITY: $23k → 8%UGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 27%WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%THE NIELSEN COMPANY LLC: $37k → 14%ANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%FATS & PROTEINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 21%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 13%MITLOEHNER CONSULTING: $19k → 16%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50k → 14%DECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONS: $106k → 10%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECH: $38k → 15%SWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER: $22k → 17%UGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 27%ANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $38k → 14%DECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONS LLC: $105k → 10%SWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER: $11k → 17%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $30k → 14%DECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONS: $63k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: $5k → 14%DECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONS LLC: $53k → 10%NORTH AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%NORTH AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%NORTH AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%NORTH AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IL
SD
IA
CA
MO
WV
VA
KS
AR
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Institute for Feed Education and Research Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Institute for Feed Education and Research Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 12 repeat orgs$541k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$1.8M
$524k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHealthScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MI
    MEAT INSTITUTE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +50%
  • SH
    SWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $332k · revenue +112%
  • TN
    THE NIELSEN COMPANY LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $37k
  • FA
    FATS AND PROTEINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -41%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
7
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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8
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
9
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
10
National Academy of Engineering Fund

Naef supports the activities of the national academy of engineering (nae). nae operates within the charter and framework of the national academy of sciences (nas) and advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. nae…

Science & Tech
11
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
12
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Center for Food Integrity Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONS: $646,645 · OtherDECISION INNOVATION SOLUTIONSCONTEXT NETWORK: $575,622 · OtherCONTEXT NETWORKState University of Iowa: $97,114 · OtherState University of IowaIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $82,300 · Other+7 more: $166,281 · Other+7 moreTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $332,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDAT…VIRGINIA TECH SERVICES INC: $24,884 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH SERVIC…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,667 · Education+5 more: $37,080 · Education+5 moreMEAT INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $92,000 · Science & TechSWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER INC: $58,277 · HealthANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,567,962Education$430,631Community Improvement$180,000Science & Tech$92,000Health$58,277Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $332,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEAT INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $92,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSWINE HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER INC: $58,277 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFATS AND PROTEINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,333 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH SERVICES INC: $24,884 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FOOD INTEGRITY INC: $22,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $13,580 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for Feed Education and Research Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Feed Education and Research Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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