Virginia · Nonprofit
FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC
FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 209 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,309,874 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($12,144,584). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 209
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Food Allergy Research & Education Inc does
Mission
Fare's mission is to improve the quality of life and health of those with food allergies through transformative research, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research: fare makes grants aimed at breakthroughs in medical research and improvements in the quality of life of individuals with food allergies and providing them hope through the promise of new treatments. This includes but is not limited to the fare clinical network, the data commons, and other medical trials and studies.
$6,887,376 spentof which $5,412,083 as grants$673,185 earned by the program39% of program spendingAdvocacy and education: fare's advocacy priorities address challenging public policy issues facing the food allergy community including removing legislative and regulatory barriers to the development of food allergy therapies and enabling more treatment options for the full and diverse population of food allergy patients. Fare educates and trains those working in food allergies as well as professionals such as dietitians, allergists, school staff and food service personnel in a variety of settings.
$5,628,921 spentof which $460,352 as grants32% of program spendingShared awareness and outreach: fare is focused on ensuring the voice of the patient is heard across the broader community with a dedication to diversity, equity, inclusion and access. Fare works to create standards and qualifications across the public health and medical communities. Fare's programs aim to amplify the voices of patients with food allergies and to engage in promoting life, health and hope for all those managing food allergies.
$5,280,448 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,796,745.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $62M to $50M (−20%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2023 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Sung-Ah Poblete Phd
CEO
Board chair
David Jaffe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 76 funders, grant income rose $971k → $4.7M.
29 of 209 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 209 funders by total. 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
FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 19% · 2020 23% · 2021 74% · 2022 54% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 32 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states 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.
Against its field
FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$750k
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 FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC
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 Virginia
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
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: 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 FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC?
- FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 209 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,309,874 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($12,144,584). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 209 organizations giving $32,309,874 in grants to FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC, 118 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $12,144,584 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 209 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing