· Public charity
The Good Food Institute Inc
To harness the power of food innovation and markets to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals by supporting efforts to make alternative proteins accessible, affordable, and delicious.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $1,019,935 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,573,258 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,553,323 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $764k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DECO LABS | $250,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $249,999 |
| CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $246,178 |
| DPROTEIN INC | $218,296 |
| CONSERVATION X LABS INC | $50,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $5,462 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $3.5M 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.
Stated purpose: UPCYCLING WHEAT BRAN TO A NEW GENERATION OF FERMENTATION-BASED INGREDIENTS VIA HIGH THROUGHOUT SCREENING AND PROCESS UPSCALING (WHEAT-UP) · KAZBAR INNOVATIVE MEAT PROTEIN ALTERNATIVES PRODUCED THROUGH COST-EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES · FEENIX - ADVANCING CIRCULAR FOOD VALUE CHAINS WITH THE REPURPOSING OF SUNFLOWER SEED PROCESSING SIDE STREAMS
Stated purpose: DEVELOPMENT OF OLEAGINOUS YEAST EXTRACT HYDROLYSATES FROM A SUSTAINABLE MULTI-STEP PROCESS USING LUPIN WASTE BIOMASS FOR THE CULTIVATED MEAT INDUSTRY · SOCCOL LOW-COST CULTIVATION MEDIA DERIVED FROM ALGAE AND EDIBLE FUNGI FOR CELLULAR MEAT PRODUCTION IN A CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPROACH · MATCH-FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS
Stated purpose: DEVELOPING FAT REPLACEMENT FOR BIO-PRINTED CULTIVATED MEAT IN THE FORM OF PICKERING EMULSIONS STABILIZED WITH NANOPARTICLES; ENHANCING S-BASED COMPOUND LEVELS IN CROPS; HARNESSING NATURALLY FIBRIL-FORMING PROTEINS OF THE EDIBLE FUNGUS NEUROSPORA INTERMEDIA TO FORM MEAT ALTERNATIVES: TOWARDS CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY, SUSTAINABILITY AND FOOD SECURITY · ROADMAP AND KEY STEPS FOR ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS TOWARD FOOD SECURITY · DEVELOPMENT OF SUNA: A SEAWEED BASED ALTERNATIVE TO CANNED TUNAMIMICKING FAT PERCEPTION - PEPTIDE-BASED CD36 ACTIVATION FOR ENHANCED FOOD SENSORY EXPERIENCE
Stated purpose: JUAN DU: OPTIMIZING SEAWEED PROTEINS TO CULTIVATED MEAT (SEATOMEAT) · R&D GAP ANALYSIS, NOMENCLATURE STUDY, NUTRITION AND ADVANCED MARKET SHAPINT WORKS
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +129% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $764k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS3× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS4× · 2020–2023 · $566k
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $518k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- MIMeridian Instituteone grant, 2023 · $545k · revenue +15%
- CACLIMATE ADVISERS INCone grant, 2022 · $520k
- CNCharity Navigatorgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
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.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Good Food Institute Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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