· Public charity
The Peanut Institute Foundation Inc
To provide research on peanuts and peanut products.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $151,200 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $63,150 |
| LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | $52,597 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - ARLINGTON | $30,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% of its 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: $36k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PEANUT BUTTER AS A STRATEGY TO IMPROVE OLDER ADULTS PHYSICAL CAPACITY
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of The Peanut Institute Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center2× · 2018–2024 · $239k · revenue +110%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON2× · 2019–2020 · $225k
- RURUTGERS UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $147k
Funded once
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $175k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $150k
- PFPESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 18 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Peanut Institute Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peanut Institute Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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