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Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences at a glance

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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.

$429k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Science & Tech$1.5MHealth$879kEducation$492kFood & Nutrition$244kYouth Development$98kSocial Science$68k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $337,502, the rows itemized in this filing. The $429,454 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $91,952 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $232k
$45,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER$68,199
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$60,868
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$52,295
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST$50,344
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$45,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$32,821
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$14,475
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$6,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $61k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $54k → 12%MAYO CLINIC: $150k → 9%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $31k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $20k → 14%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $89k → 19%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 16%CHILDREN'S MERCY: $43k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADA DENVER: $20k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI PHYSICIANS COMPANY - UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL HEAL: $60k → 16%NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $68k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $55k → 19%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $65k → 8%WILLIAM & MARY: $86k → 7%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (GOVERNMENT AGENCY): $70k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $20k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS: $81k → 19%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $34k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $50k → 12%MAYO CLINIC: $25k → 9%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $28k → 12%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI PHYSICIANS COMPANY: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $27k → 19%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $33k → 8%WILLIAM & MARY: $60k → 7%JOHNS HOPKINS: $119k → 19%TUFTS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICAL CENTER: $69k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICAL CENTER: $194k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $75k → 9%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $39k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $51k → 19%WILLIAM & MARY: $25k → 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICAL CENTER: $154k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $28k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $71k → 14%TUFTS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICAL CENTER: $78k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $38k → 14%TUFTS UNIVERSITY AND MEDICAL CENTER: $62k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $32k → 14%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $55k → 16%ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION: $26k → 14%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $33k → 16%ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION: $26k → 14%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CO
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
SC
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $85k 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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$50k · 59% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS · WORKSHOP SPONSOR

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$35k · 41% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 22 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
6

Total granted

$2.8M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+27%

Still filing today

32%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther
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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    7× · 2017–2024 · $651k · revenue +50%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $214k · revenue +42%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $107k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (GOVERNMENT AGENCY)
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • VP
    VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $43k
  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $39k · revenue +22%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
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
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Illinois Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 30 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $274,415 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISWILLIAM & MARY: $170,961 · OtherWILLIAM & MARYMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $150,140 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $138,304 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYUC PHYSICIANS COMPANY LLC: $130,000 · OtherUC PHYSICIANS COMPANY LLCIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $127,536 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $107,303 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $104,688 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $98,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $89,101 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (GOVERNMENT AGENCY): $69,662 · OtherPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC: $69,169 · Other+6 more: $190,674 · Other+6 moreTrustees of Tufts College: $650,727 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $213,835 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $98,369 · EducationFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUN…Cornell University: $95,000 · EducationCornell UniversityUniversity of Chicago: $38,700 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationMAYO CLINIC: $249,762 · HealthMAYO CLINICACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION: $52,672 · HealthACADEMY OF …Children's Hospital Corporation: $25,000 · HealthChildren's …NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $68,199 · Social ScienceAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR NUTRITION INC: $8,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,789,953Education$1,106,631Health$327,434Social Science$68,199Food & Nutrition$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $650,727 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $249,762 over 3y, 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
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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR NUTRITION INC ↗

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 …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • American Society for Nutrition Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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.
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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.

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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