Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE
AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,145 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,471,145). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 481 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cornell Universityshared funders
- Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigoportfolio match
- Seeding the Future Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 12% · 2020 55% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 57% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $211k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $79k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest International Life Sciences Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Cornell Universityshared fundersNY · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seeding the Future Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Sycip Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Soybean Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alexander Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bright Horizon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Food and Agriculture Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation International Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martin R Prince Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mishra Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.1M
- Department of State$36k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE?
- AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,145 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,471,145). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,526,145 in grants to AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,471,145 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing