About Food Allergy Research & Education
To improve the lives of people with food allergies by accelerating research, advancing treatments and diagnosis, supporting patients and families, raising awareness, and advocating for policies that protect and empower the food-allergic community.
Focus Areas
food allergy researchclinical trialspatient registrybiobankdiagnosticstreatment developmenteducation and trainingadvocacy and public policyawareness campaigns
Who They Fund
medical researchers / scientistspatients enrolled in disease registriesacademic medical centers / healthcare institutions
About Food Allergy Research & Education
Food Allergy Research & Education Inc. put $5,000,000 behind the Food Allergy Science Initiative in 2023, signaling a grantmaking approach centered on research infrastructure and biomedical progress rather than small discretionary awards. Across its recent grants, the foundation supports medical research tied to food allergy science, with repeated funding to universities, children’s hospitals, and research institutions working on diagnosis, treatment development, registries, and clinical trials. Northwestern University received multiple awards, including $1,105,330 in 2025, $1,002,971 in 2023, and $828,998 in 2024, showing sustained support for the same research partner over several years. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia also appears repeatedly in the recent grant list, alongside other academic medical centers such as Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Michigan. The portfolio is national in scope and heavily oriented toward scientific and clinical capacity, with education, awareness, and policy work appearing alongside research-focused grants.
What Food Allergy Research & Education Funds
The foundation’s research agenda includes clinical and translational work, especially where scientific tools can improve diagnosis and treatment. For example, it gave $743,000 in 2024 to Beckman Coulter Inc for medical research and $206,700 in 2023 to the same organization for medical research, indicating continued support for a research partner in diagnostic or biomedical development. It also funded university-based research at The University of Chicago with $200,000 in 2023 and $100,000 in 2025, as well as Johns Hopkins University with $200,000 in 2023 and $100,000 in 2024. Beyond laboratories and clinics, the foundation made a $146,042 grant in 2025 to Top Box Foods, showing that its portfolio also reaches into community-facing food and health work.
How Food Allergy Research & Education Gives
Typical grants cluster at a median of $75,000, with the lower quartile at $28,019 and the upper quartile at $177,318. The structure is grant-based rather than individual giving, and it does not make program-related investments. The recent record shows repeated support to the same institutions across multiple years, including Northwestern University, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Chicago, which points to ongoing relationships rather than one-off awards. The active funding area is listed as Research Funding Opportunities, and the website content says it accepts neither unsolicited applications nor details the application process.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.4M
Total Assets
$33.2M
Total Revenue
$20M
Total Expenses
$19M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $28K and $177K, with a median of $75K.
25th Percentile
$28K
Median
$75K
75th Percentile
$177K
Geographic Reach
National16 states funded
About 6% of grants go to recipients in IL.
Funding intensity
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Leadership
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