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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences

Iafns is a non-profit scientific organization that advances food safety and nutrition science for the benefit of public health. We bring together scientists from governments, academia, and industry to work cooperatively and with shared purpose.

$429k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2024: 11
Organizations funded FY2023: 18%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $338k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $45,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $68,199
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 16; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $7.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	9	$338k	11%
FY2023	11	$280k	18%
FY2022	16	$399k	31%
FY2021	9	$503k	44%
FY2020	10	$370k	20%
FY2019	8	$273k	25%
FY2018	8	$376k	25%
FY2017	11	$513k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$1.5MHealth$879kEducation$492kFood & Nutrition$244kYouth Development$98kSocial Science$68k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College	$650,727	7	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$274,415	6	n/a
Johns Hopkins University	$213,835	3	0%
William & Mary	$170,961	3	n/a
Michigan State University	$150,140	6	n/a
Trustees of Purdue University	$138,304	2	n/a
Uc Physicians Company LLC	$130,000	3	n/a
Iowa State University	$127,536	4	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$107,303	3	0%
University of Massachusetts	$104,688	2	n/a

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All grantees of Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College	$650,727	7	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$274,415	6	n/a
Johns Hopkins University	$213,835	3	0%
William & Mary	$170,961	3	n/a
Michigan State University	$150,140	6	n/a
Trustees of Purdue University	$138,304	2	n/a
Uc Physicians Company LLC	$130,000	3	n/a
Iowa State University	$127,536	4	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$107,303	3	0%
University of Massachusetts	$104,688	2	n/a
Florida State University Research Foundation Inc	$98,369	2	0%
Rutgers the State University	$98,000	2	n/a
Cornell University	$95,000	8	0%
Washington State University	$89,101	3	n/a
Nc State University	$70,000	4	n/a
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc	$69,169	3	n/a
National Opinion Research Center	$68,199	1	0%
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation	$52,672	2	1%
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	$52,475	3	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$45,000	3	n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$42,500	1	n/a
University of Chicago	$38,700	1	0%
University of Maryland College Park	$27,699	2	n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation	$25,000	2	0%
University of Minnesota	$13,000	2	n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology	$10,000	1	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$10,000	1	n/a
American Society for Nutrition Inc	$8,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences

How much does Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences give?: Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences reported 9 itemized grants totaling $337,502, out of $429,454 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (46%), Health (27%), Education (15%).
Who are Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Trustees of Tufts College ($651k), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($274k), Johns Hopkins University ($214k).
Does Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences based?: Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences is based in DC.