California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC
INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,387 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($281,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $836k
- Net assets
- $372k
What Institute for Food and Development Policy Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the institute for food and development policy (food first) is to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger. Our grand strategy is to change consciousness, awakening people to the possibility of their own power to bring about social change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research and education for action: the goal of the institute for food and development policy (food first's research work) is to generate information and analysis for food sovereignty locally and globally. Food first also utilizes participatory action research with community organizations to help them generate their own information and analyses. The combination of our applied and participatory research produces real-time information and insights. Our research brings the perspective of community-based struggles to broader development debates. The core of food first's long-time work, our research and analysis, is disseminated through a variety of research publications, including backgrounders, policy briefs, and development reports.
$319,392 spentof which $202 as grants$49,500 earned by the program93% of program spendingThe outreach & engagement program: a) technical assistance/ capacity building/ skill development training/ education - (organic farming education, training on ...the outreach & engagement program: a) technical assistance/ capacity building/ skill development training/ education - (organic farming education, training on use of drones to support cost efficient agriculture); b) community organization support - (fiscal sponsorship, seed+ grants type assistance)
$12,606 spentof which $3,778 as grants4% of program spendingFood first has published books and hundreds of articles and research reports highlighting the root causes of hunger and amplifying the voices of the communities and movements advancing real solutions.
$11,757 spent3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,755.
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 $620k to $1.2M (+97%).
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 14% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Lmichael Green
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $61k → $11k.
6 of 14 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 FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC’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
INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 39% · 2019 45% · 2020 47% · 2021 55% · 2022 55% · 2023 95% — 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
18% of INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $408k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC?
- INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,387 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($281,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $836,387 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $281,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 14 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