Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION
COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,500 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIAL CONVENTION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Council for Responsible Nutrition does
Mission
To protect and advance a climate for our members to responsibly create and market science-based dietary supplements, functional food, and their ingredients, for better human health and nutrition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Communications - promotes the goals of crn to non-government decision makers, thought leaders and consumers through conventional, electronic and social media.
Science & regulatory affairs - interprets and promotes an appropriate scientific basis for evaluating the quality, safety & benefits of dietary supplements, functional food and nutritional ingredients.
Government relations - advocates for appropriate regulation of dietary supplements and functional food which includes addressing federal and state legislative proposals that would affect the industry.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $5.7M (+65%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Steven Mister
President & CEO
Board chair
Bruce Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION’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
COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION draws 100% 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. 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.
Organizations like COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Crn Foundation · exempt
- Crn Political Action Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION?
- COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,500 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIAL CONVENTION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $46,500 in grants to COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION?
- UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIAL CONVENTION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE NUTRITION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing