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Foundation for Food and Agriculture

Name: Foundation for Food and Agriculture grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

126
grants reported: $165.1M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $594,908
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

research

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Land-grant university crop, soil and plant science research
Soil carbon markets, ecosystem services and regenerative practice validation
Livestock and animal health, especially swine disease surveillance
Co-funded projects with USDA Agricultural Research Service
Ag-tech startups, sensors and translational venture vehicles
Nutrient recovery, organic systems and food-nutrition research

Typical grant

The median award is about $595,000, with the middle half between $400,000 and $1.6 million, and a very visible cluster right at $448,000 to $450,000 that reads as a standard smaller project tier. The eight-figure checks go to institutional hubs and market-building intermediaries (Kansas State University Foundation at $19.5 million, Ecosystem Services Market Consortium at $10.3 million, the Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation at $10 million), while single-investigator style projects land in the $130,000 to $650,000 band. Repeat funding is common: Swine Health Information Center appears all three years, and USDA ARS, Rich Earth Institute, Texas Tech, Oregon State, Florida, Clemson, Texas A&M AgriLife, South Dakota State, NC State and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station all show up more than once.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“RESEARCH”
“Agricultural Research Service (USDA)”
“AgriLife Research”
“Ecosystem Services”
“Regenerative Agriculture”

Positioning adjacent work

Route the proposal through a land-grant institution or experiment station; nearly all money lands there.
Ask $450,000 for a first project; that price point recurs across many 2023 and 2024 awards.
Tie the work to soil carbon measurement, ecosystem services markets, or livestock disease surveillance.
Name a commodity group, industry, or ARS co-funder; those partnerships appear throughout the portfolio.

Worth knowing: Three 2023 awards (Kansas State, Ecosystem Services Market Consortium, Schmidt Fund) account for roughly a quarter of all dollars on file, so the headline total overstates what a typical new grantee can expect. Award sizes dropped sharply in 2024, with the largest at $3.7 million and most under $500,000, and every grant in the file is coded simply as research rather than program or operating support.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Kansas State University Foundation1 grant · $19.5M
Ecosystem Services Market Consortium1 grant · $10.3M
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation1 grant · $10.0M
Agricultural Research Service (Usda)2 grants · $7.5M
Ohio State University1 grant · $5.3M
North Carolina State University3 grants · $5.0M
The Nature Conservancy3 grants · $3.9M
University of Wisconsin System1 grant · $3.6M
Clemson University2 grants · $3.5M
University of California Davis1 grant · $3.3M

Giving over time

$39.2M

2022

$100.2M

2023

$25.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 126 grants.

$19.5M
Kansas State University Foundation · Manhattan, KS · 2023
Research
$10.3M
Ecosystem Services Market Consortium · Falls Church, VA · 2023
Research
$10.0M
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Research
$6.0M
Agricultural Research Service (Usda) · Beltsville, MD · 2023
Research
$5.3M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
Research
$3.7M
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Research
$3.6M
The Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2023
Research
$3.6M
University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2023
Research
$3.3M
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
Research
$3.2M
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2023
Research
$3.0M
Regents of the University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023
Research
$2.9M
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2023
Research
$2.5M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Research
$2.5M
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
Research
$2.5M
Native American Agriculture Fund · Fayetteville, AR · 2022
Research
$2.5M
Rf Catalytic Capital · New York, NY · 2022
Research
$2.4M
The Organic Center · Washington, DC · 2023
Research
$2.4M
Practical Farmers of Iowa · Ames, IA · 2023
Research
$2.4M
Clemson University · Clemson, SC · 2023
Research
$2.3M
Colorado State University · Fort Collins, CO · 2023
Research
$2.3M
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2022
Research
$2.2M
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2024
Research
$2.1M
Kirchner Impact Foundation · Jacksonville, FL · 2023
Research
$2.0M
Washington State University · Pullman, WA · 2023
Research
$2.0M
Swine Health Information Center · Ames, IA · 2024
Research
$2.0M
United Soybean Board · Chesterfield, MO · 2022
Research
$1.9M
Danone Institute North America · White Plains, NY · 2023
Research
$1.8M
Pitzer College · Claremont, CA · 2023
Research
$1.7M
Texas a&M Agrilife Research · College Station, TX · 2024
Research
$1.7M
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2023
Research
$1.7M
University of Georgia Research Foundation · Athens, GA · 2023
Research
$1.6M
Cornell · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Research
$1.6M
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
Research
$1.5M
Agricultural Research Service (Usda) · Beltsville, MD · 2024
Research
$1.4M
Land Core · Grass Valley, OH · 2023
Research
$1.3M
University of California Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources · Davis, CA · 2024
Research
$1.2M
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Research
$1.1M
Swine Health Information Center · Ames, IA · 2022
Research
$1.1M
Clemson University · Clemson, SC · 2022
Research
$1.0M
Usda · Washington, DC · 2022
Research
$1.0M
Two Blades Foundation · Evanston, IL · 2024
Research
$1.0M
Swine Health Information Center · Ames, IA · 2023
Research
$1.0M
Tuskeegee University · Tuskegee Institute, AL · 2022
Research
$999,991
Case Western University · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Research
$999,736
Washington State University · Pullman, WA · 2022
Research
$970,931
New Mexico State University · Las Cruces, NM · 2022
Research
$966,273
The Land Institute · Salina, KS · 2022
Research
$913,875
Iowa State University of Science and Technology · Ames, IA · 2023
Research
$881,526
University of Kansas · Lawrence, KS · 2024
Research
$758,136
University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2022
Research
$750,000
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2022
Research
$749,999
Technology Matters · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
Research
$701,627
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2022
Research
$669,739
Rich Earth Institute · Brattleboro, VT · 2024
Research
$660,518
Rich Earth Institute · Brattleboro, VT · 2023
Research
$653,035
Sasya · St Paul, MN · 2022
Research
$645,391
Mississippi State University · Starkville, MS · 2022
Research
$642,086
Savanna Institute · Madison, WI · 2023
Research
$637,733
Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2023
Research
$633,463
Texas Tech University · Lubbock, TX · 2023
Research
$600,667
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$600,340
West Texas a&M University · Canyon, TX · 2023
Research
$600,000
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2023
Research
$589,817
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2022
Research
$575,000
Foodshot Global · New York, NY · 2023
Research
$541,173
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University · Blacksburg, VA · 2023
Research
$522,608
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2023
Research
$500,086
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2023
Research
$499,817
South Dakota State University · Brookings, SD · 2023
Research
$499,158
Texas a&M Agrilife Research · College Station, TX · 2023
Research
$494,956
Sensit Ventures · Davis, CA · 2023
Research
$488,339
Texas a&M University · College Station, TX · 2022
Research
$475,000
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2022
Research
$456,535
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2022
Research
$450,000
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Research
$450,000
Asu Enterprise Partners · Tempe, AZ · 2023
Research
$450,000
The Scripps Research Institute · La Jolia, CA · 2023
Research
$450,000
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023
Research
$450,000
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2023
Research
$450,000
North Dakota State University · Fargo, ND · 2022
Research
$449,989
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Research Foundation · New Haven, CT · 2024
Research
$449,942
University of Hawaii · Honolulu, HI · 2024
Research
$449,897
The University of Massachusetts · Westborough, MA · 2023
Research
$449,841
Rodale Institute · Kutztown, PA · 2023
Research
$449,697
Montana State University · Bozeman, MT · 2022
Research
$449,607
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station · New Haven, CT · 2023
Research
$448,852
East Tennessee State University · Johnson City, TN · 2024
Research
$448,491
University of Arkansas - Division of Agriculture · Little Rock, AR · 2024
Research
$446,474
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2024
Research
$446,474
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2022
Research
$445,585
Texas Tech University · Lubbock, TX · 2024
Research
$434,038
University of Tennessee at Knoxville · Knoxville, TN · 2024
Research
$430,485
University of Massachusetts · Hadley, MA · 2022
Research
$405,111
Pipestone Applied Research Llc · Pipestone, MN · 2023
Research
$400,000
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Research
$338,039
Tennessee State University · Nashville, TN · 2022
Research
$322,129
Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2024
Research
$317,400
Ichthus Unlimited Llc · West Des Moines, IA · 2023
Research
$300,000
Audiot · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
Research
$300,000
World Vision · Federal Way, WA · 2022
Research

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.