South Dakota · Nonprofit
FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE
FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $551k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $190k
- Net assets
- $386k
What Fatty Acid Research Institute does
Mission
See schedule othe Fatty Acid Research Institute (fari) is a non-profit foundation that brings together nutrition scientists and biostatistical experts with strong publication records and expertise in fatty acids to accelerate discovery of the relationships between fatty acids, especially omega-3, and health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Fatty Acid Research Institute continued its work to access fatty acid data in existing studies, and subsequently analyzing and publishing the results of its analyses of fatty acids and health, leading to numerous peer-reviewed publications completed and many others in development.
$314,781 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $314,781.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $145k to $379k (+161%).
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: 2023 14% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Nathan Tintle
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As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $115k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FATTY ACID RESEARCH 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
FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 80% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state 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 state is 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.
Government funding FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $427k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$427k
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 FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FATTY ACID RESEARCH 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $190,000 in grants to FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FATTY ACID RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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