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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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$338k11%
FY202311$280k18%
FY202216$399k31%
FY20219$503k44%
FY202010$370k20%
FY20198$273k25%
FY20188$376k25%
FY201711$513kn/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

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Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College$650,72770%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$274,4156n/a
Johns Hopkins University$213,83530%
William & Mary$170,9613n/a
Michigan State University$150,1406n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$138,3042n/a
Uc Physicians Company LLC$130,0003n/a
Iowa State University$127,5364n/a
Trustees of Boston University$107,30330%
University of Massachusetts$104,6882n/a
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College$650,72770%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$274,4156n/a
Johns Hopkins University$213,83530%
William & Mary$170,9613n/a
Michigan State University$150,1406n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$138,3042n/a
Uc Physicians Company LLC$130,0003n/a
Iowa State University$127,5364n/a
Trustees of Boston University$107,30330%
University of Massachusetts$104,6882n/a
Florida State University Research Foundation Inc$98,36920%
Rutgers the State University$98,0002n/a
Cornell University$95,00080%
Washington State University$89,1013n/a
Nc State University$70,0004n/a
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc$69,1693n/a
National Opinion Research Center$68,19910%
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation$52,67221%
University of Arkansas Fayetteville$52,4753n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$45,0003n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$42,5001n/a
University of Chicago$38,70010%
University of Maryland College Park$27,6992n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation$25,00020%
University of Minnesota$13,0002n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology$10,00010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$10,0001n/a
American Society for Nutrition Inc$8,00010%

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

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $650,727 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $213,835 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $107,303 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida State University Research Foundation Inc: $98,369 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCornell University: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Opinion Research Center: $68,199 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation: $52,672 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $38,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Nutrition Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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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Find your warmest path to Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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