Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,064,329 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($92,091,374). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $126M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $145M
- Net assets
- $28M
What International Food Policy Research Institute does
Mission
International Food Policy Research Institute's (ifpri) vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. Ifpri's mission is to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Development strategies and governance:conducts on-demand policy analysis for country governments and regional partners to identify policy options and market opportunities that can best enable agriculture and the rural economy to promote sustainable growth and poverty reduction; and which public investments have the highest returns in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction. Governance work addresses key issues related to political economy constraints to implementing sustainable food system policies, how governance structures affect the enabling environment for service provision, and the impacts of political crisis on transformation pathways and development strategies.
$25,557,490 spentof which $4,549,033 as grants24% of program spendingInnovation policy and scaling:research to advance evidence-based policies and practices that accelerate inclusive and sustainable innovation via the exchange of science and technology and by catalyzing private sector and civil society investment. Includes research on science and technology policy and workstream on policies for innovation scaling aimed at translating agricultural and food systems research and development into socially and economically beneficial use.
$21,271,965 spent20% of program spendingNutrition, diets, and health:research aimed at improving diets and reducing malnutrition and related health issues that can save lives, improve people's quality of life, and increase their productivity. This entails working closely with a wide range of stakeholders to understand the drivers of all forms of malnutrition and to identify and test contextually relevant solutions.
$20,523,383 spent19% of program spendingPoverty, gender, and inclusion:activity involves working with governments and other partners and stakeholders to conduct rigorous mixed-methods multidisciplinary research on social protection and poverty reduction programs, women's empowerment and gender equality, governance and civil society, agriculture, and nutrition in order to provide evidence-based guidance to inform policy. Focus is on multiple impact pathways to improve wellbeing for poor and vulnerable women and men and their communities.
$10,624,037 spentof which $50,716 as grants10% of program spendingMarkets, trade, and institutions:research analyzes local, regional, and global economic environments, trade conditions, and value chains to provide innovative, evidence-based market and policy solutions to help drive inclusive economic growth and job creation along food value chains, build household and agrifood value-chain resilience to food system shocks, and provide incentives for healthy and sustainable choices by food producers and consumers.
$14,592,038 spentof which $829,437 as grants13% of program spendingForesight and policy modeling:uses advanced data and modeling systems to track and anticipate food system trends at global, national, and local scales. Works with government and research partners to share modeling capabilities and ensure that decisionmakers have access to improved data and analytics to help identify technologies and policies to drive inclusive and sustainable transformation.
$6,584,527 spent6% of program spendingNatural resources and resilience:research at the intersection of nature, agriculture, and development to support tangible progress toward more equitable, resilient, and environmentally sustainable food systems that thrive on healthy ecosystems and deliver nutrition, better livelihoods, and economic opportunities for men and women.
$9,320,489 spent9% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $108,473,929.
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 2022 to 2023, from $167M to $144M (−14%).
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 29% · 2018 38% · 2019 32% · 2020 34% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 2023 21% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Pascal Lamy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $25M → $11M.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest International Water Management Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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: 2017 89% · 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 57% · 2021 56% · 2022 52% · 2023 66% — 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
50% of INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 42 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 42 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $92.9M on record.
- Agency for International Development$88.2M
- Millennium Challenge Corporation$4.3M
- Department of Agriculture$231k
- National Science Foundation$100k
- Department of State$24k
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 INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,064,329 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($92,091,374). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $145,064,329 in grants to INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $92,091,374 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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