GAP IQ

Partnership highlights

Monuments across Appalachian Virginia Program

“The support of Foundation Relations has been critical to our project's success. Tracy Krauchun's insights into proposal preparation and project design helped us imagine the possibilities of our work. With her guidance we transformed our project's commitment to social justice into a multi-layered, community-based endeavor that reflects the Mellon Foundation's commitments.”

Katrina Powell, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of English, founding director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies

Sloan Foundation and Genentech Foundation Fund

“From my perspective as a faculty member, the Foundation Relations team has opened new doors to explore possibilities for advancing my research and educational agendas. The staff is highly knowledgeable, collaborative, persistent, and their support has been very fruitful in terms of securing new funding sources for my academic work I would have never considered.”

Wayne Scales, J. Byron Maupin Professor of Engineering, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Getting started

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Research to Advance  Racial Equality
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Funding from Evidence for Action is focused on studies about upstream causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals' options and behaviors.

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From Insight to action

Agricultural productivity growth is essential to sustainably meeting the escalating and evolving demands on our agri-food systems. Yet data that tracks trends in total factor productivity (TFP) growth—a critical measure of production efficiency and sustainability—is fragmented, underutilized, and difficult to use in decision making.

GAP IQ™ moves agricultural productivity growth insights beyond static reporting to a cohesive, decision-ready intelligence system—one that complements and enhances the GAP Report™ with interactive and regionally relevant data.

Three-stage progression graphic showing icons for data, intelligence and action, each labeled and connected by a dashed line. A bar chart represents data, a brain represents intelligence and a lightning bolt represents action. A green ring around each icon fills further at each stage, from about one third at data to complete at action, showing data being turned into intelligence and then into action.

Visualize siloed agricultural, economic, climate, and food security data and models that are harmonized to provide more precise intelligence and a more complete picture of agricultural productivity dynamics and how it contributes to outcomes such as economic growth and environmental resilience.

Frictionless Intelligence for Accelerated Decision Making

GAP IQ™ is designed to remove bottlenecks in data access, interpretation, and usability—providing targeted insights based on user needs.

Country-Specific Insights
Explore productivity growth dynamics and drivers.
Side-by-Side Comparisons
Compare productivity growth dynamics and drivers.
Scenario Modeling & Bundle Analysis
Use data-driven, AI-assisted analysis to assess available options without traditional delays.
Forecast Returns
Using machine learning and validated models, estimate financial or social ROI.

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Use the GAP IQ™ roadmap progression: Crawl → Walk → Run → Fly — from laying the foundation, to enhancing insights and exploration, to real-time decision intelligence,  to AI-powered automation.

Targeted Insights For Impact

GAP IQ™ personalizes insights based on user needs. Investors can forecast returns on agricultural investments, while policy makers can assess policy outcomes before implementation. Funding and strategic initiatives become increasingly data-driven, high-impact, and aligned with the three pillars of sustainability—social, environmental, and economic.

The platform will evolve to incorporate expanded real-time data sources, advanced data visualization and scenario exploration, enhanced AI-powered analytics, and localized intelligence.

co-creation for maximum utility

GAP IQ™ is built with and for stakeholders. By collaborating with leading economists, government agencies, multilateral organizations, private sector leaders, and civil society, the platform will reflect real-world needs and challenges.

The platform is at an early stage, with core design choices still open. We are seeking Founding Partners to co-develop the systems-intelligence infrastructure required for more resilient, productive agri-food systems—grounded in the realities of policy, investment, and implementation.