· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +138%
Funded once
- MIMeridian Instituteone grant, 2023 · $545k · revenue +15%
- CACLIMATE ADVISERS INCone grant, 2022 · $520k
- CNCharity Navigatorgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +80%
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.
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.
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…
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.…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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)
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Good Food Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Good Food Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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