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International Food Policy Research Institute

INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE's (ifpri) vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$819k
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.

Education$3.5MScience & Tech$642kFood & Nutrition$326kPhilanthropy$167k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $881,171, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,429,187 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,548,016 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

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
  • $250k+1 grant · $819k
$818,671
Median grant
2
States reached
$145M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$818,671
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$62,500
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $53k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $16k → 17%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $72k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 16%DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CTR: $92k → 11%ENVERITAS INC: $167k → 9%UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA: $45k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $63k → 13%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $78k → 19%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $90k → 19%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $16k → 17%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $27k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $857k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $63k → 13%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $26k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $819k → 16%ILSI-RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $343k → 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

IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
CT
MO
NC
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $4.5M on the FY2024 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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$3.7M · 80% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

South America$741k · 16% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

South Asia$122k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$25k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 3 repeat orgs$991k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$3.5M
$991k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechPhilanthropyFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.3M
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue -9%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $77k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2023 · $303k · revenue +16%
  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $181k
  • EI
    ENVERITAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $167k · 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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
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
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
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
10
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
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Science in the Public Interest; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,292,042 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $181,076 · Other+4 more: $228,257 · Other+4 moreEmory University: $302,581 · EducationEmory Univers…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $125,000 · EducationUniversity of…Cornell University: $77,286 · EducationCornell Unive…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $32,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …ENVERITAS INC: $167,209 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $125,203 · Food & NutritionDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $91,543 · Science & TechAGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Science & Tech
Other$3,701,375Education$536,867Philanthropy$167,209Food & Nutrition$125,203Science & Tech$111,543

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 budgetEmory University: $302,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVERITAS INC: $167,209 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $125,203 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $91,543 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $77,286 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Food Policy Research Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Food Policy Research Institute. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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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    How do I get to International Food Policy Research Institute?

    Find your warmest path to International Food Policy Research Institute 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 14 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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