Minnesota · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY
INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,167,890 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($987,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy does
Mission
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Iatp is a policy and advocacy organization that works at the intersection of food and economic systems. Our program is organized in interconnected core areas according to content, relationships with partners and the policy institutions associated with our focus areas. The three interconnected areas are agriculture & food systems, climate solutions, and trade & governance. In 2025, iatp continued to advance our mission while navigating a rapidly changing domestic economic context and big changes in international relations. (continued on schedule o)climate solutions: iatp has fought to end the harms of exploitive animal factory farm systems for decades. We are committed to food and farm systems that serve independent family farmers and workers, rural communities, and human and ecosystem health. In 2025, our climate team published timely information and critical analysis as federal climate regulation was derailed by the trump administration. We published the meat and dairy emissions dashboard, an interactive data tool that tracks corporations on their climate risk and emissions reporting. We also published a scorecard, which showed that livestock companies are falling short on their…
$1,604,363 spentof which $21,000 as grants$6,066 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,604,363.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $4.2M (+69%).
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 4% · 2019 6% · 2020 20% · 2021 18% · 2022 3% · 2023 6% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Sophia Murphy
Executive director
Board chair
Marie Clarke
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $561k → $989k.
17 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 30% · 2019 41% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 31% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $112k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$112k
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 INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Iatpaction · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: 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 INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY?
- INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,167,890 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($987,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $7,167,890 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $987,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 46 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