Self-description: IATP works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Actual: Anti-biotech, anti-trade group established with funds from Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program oil and gas money. Owned a for-profit coffee company that claims social / environmental superiority and influences non-profit groups to promote its product.

(Form 990 available at guidestar.org)

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy financial condition 2006

Revenue			Expenses
Contributions $2,573,270 Government Grants $190,531 Program Services $758,514 Investments ($57,476) Special Events $0 Sales $0 Other $0			Program Services $2,472,659 Administration $211,283 Other $284,117 Total Expenditures $2,807,988     Total Assets $2,968,119
Total Revenue	$3,526,978		NET GAIN/LOSS	$558,859

IATP Board of Directors, 2007

Name	Title
Rod Leonard	IATP Treasurer
Harriet Barlow	Director
Stephen Shrybman	Director
Dr. Joseph Rocher	Director
Dr. Candido Grzybowski	Director
Dr. Arie Van Den Brand	IATP Board Chair
Dr. Rudolph Buntzel	Director
Mary Ellen Lloyd	Director
Becky Glass	Director
Mika Iba	Director
Lucia Watson	Director
Ricks McMillan	VP of Operations and Finance
James Harkness	President

 

Jim Harkness President, salary $100,000, benefits $4,622 (612) 870-3403  jharkness@iatp.org Jim Harkness joined IATP in July 2006. Previously he served as Executive Director of the World Wildlife Fund in China from 1999-2005, where he expanded the organization's profile from a strict focus on conservation of biodiversity to also addressing the consequences of China's economic growth on a broader sustainable development agenda. From 1995-1999, Jim worked as the Ford Foundation's Environment and Development Program Officer for China. He has written and spoken frequently on China and sustainable development, and has served as an adviser for the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Jim grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has a B.A. in Asian studies from the University of Wisconsin and a master's in development sociology from Cornell University.

IATP Foundation Grants
Analysis provided by ActivistCash.com
 

Selected Grants
Wallace Global Fund
Grant	$100,000.00 in 1998
Source	The Foundation Center
Details	For [the] Consumer's Choice Council's Eco-Labeling Campaign
Bush Foundation
Grant	$100,000.00 in 2001
Source	The Foundation Center
Details	To engage health professionals in discussions concerning the environmental effects of industrial livestock agriculture and to advocate policy solutions
John Merck Fund
Grant	$80,000.00 in 1999
Source	IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
Details	To launch a public education program about the potential environmental and public health impacts, as well as the implications for agriculture, of genetically engineered foods
Marisla Foundation
Grant	$25,000.00 in 2001
Source	IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
Details	Antibiotics resistance
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Grant	$10,000.00 in 2001
Source	IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
Details	Promotion of book on effects of industrial agriculture

 

Top Funders and Grantees
Funding From Foundations & Corporations	Total Donated	Time Frame
Ford Foundation	$2,612,500.00	1994 – 2006
Rockefeller Brothers Fund	$2,320,000.00	1995 – 2005
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	$1,391,000.00	1994 – 2005
McKnight Foundation	$1,056,600.00	1995 – 2005
Joyce Foundation	$748,000.00	1996 – 2004
Bush Foundation	$610,000.00	2001 – 2006
Bauman Family Foundation	$600,000.00	1994 – 2006
Great Lakes Protection Fund	$580,000.00	1995 – 2000
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation	$554,100.00	1991 – 2003
John Merck Fund	$490,000.00	1992 – 2003
Harold K. Hochschild Foundation	$486,600.00	1997 – 2005
Foundation for Deep Ecology	$417,500.00	1991 – 2001
Jenifer Altman Foundation	$366,500.00	1992 – 2001
Rockefeller Foundation	$344,134.00	2000 – 2004
Educational Foundation of America	$300,000.00	1991 – 2005
Wallace Global Fund	$299,884.00	1998 – 2005
Warsh-Mott Legacy	$240,000.00	1997 – 2004
Beldon Fund	$225,000.00	2003 – 2005
Marisla Foundation	$215,000.00	1999 – 2005
Turner Foundation	$204,000.00	1995 – 2001
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Funding From Other Activist Groups	Total Donated	Time Frame
Tides Foundation & Tides Center	$323,678.00	1992 – 2002
Center for Health, Environment and Justice	$146,527.00	1999 – 2001
Center for Public Interest Research	$142,326.00	2000 – 2001
Environmental Defense	$70,863.00	2001 – 2001

 

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