Your support feeds a safer future.
Every contribution to Lucian's Food helps fund awareness, education, school inclusion, and access programs for children and families navigating food allergies and dietary challenges.
Advocacy, access, and family support
Your gift funds allergen-aware education, school inclusion programs, family scholarships, and community outreach.
Family education & resources
Free materials, label literacy, and allergy-aware cooking guides.
School & community programs
Pilot inclusive-meal initiatives and family advocacy.
Awareness & storytelling
Lifting up the families and children too often unheard.
Recognized sponsorship for organizations and major donors
Family Friend
$25+
Funds awareness materials and educational outreach.
Community Supporter
$100+
Helps deliver inclusive nutrition resources to schools.
Mission Partner
$500+
Backs program development and family scholarships.
Founding Sponsor
$2,500+
Underwrites a major Lucian's Food initiative.
Can't donate? Pledge your name.
Teachers, parents, school faculty, healthcare workers, and community members — add your voice to a growing movement for safer, allergen-free food access.
- Your name joins a public wall of supporters.
- Anonymous? Just check the box — only your role is shown.
- We'll never sell your information.
We're not building small. We're building a federally backed standard.
Donor and pledge support directly fuels our research lab partnership and our SBIR application — the federal funding pathway designed for high-impact innovation like ours.
32M+
Americans living with food allergies
$2M+
SBIR Phase I/II target funding
10K+
Signatures we're rallying for federal support
SJSU Research Lab Partnership
Collaborating with a San José State University professor and student researchers on shelf-stable, healthier, allergen-free product formulations and next-generation food concepts.
SBIR Grant Application In Progress
We're preparing a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) submission to fund AI-driven, allergen-free manufacturing R&D at federal scale.
Public Signatures = Public Mandate
Every pledge below strengthens our SBIR narrative. Grant reviewers want proof of community demand — your name helps unlock federal funding.
We're building seven research teams. We can't do it alone.
From manufacturing engineering to AI infrastructure, robotics, packaging, product design, web/social, and policy — we're recruiting universities and student research teams to help build this mission alongside us.
Active partnership
San José State University · Food Science Lab
A SJSU professor and student research team are already partnering with us on shelf-stable, healthier, allergen-free formulations and next-generation product concepts. This is the model we want to replicate at six more universities.
University Partnership InquiriesEngineering & Facility Design
Lead university partner to design our allergen-free, AI-driven manufacturing facility from the ground up — process engineering, mechanical systems, clean architecture.
Seeking
Mechanical / chemical / industrial engineering programs
Robotics
Ongoing robotics partnership to prototype new automation concepts as we scale — pick-and-place, sanitation, inspection arms.
Seeking
Top robotics labs (CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Stanford-tier)
AI Infrastructure
Computer vision for contamination detection, predictive quality, traceability, and supply chain optimization across the entire factory.
Seeking
AI/ML and applied data science programs
Packaging & Shipping Systems
Sustainable, allergen-safe packaging design plus cold-chain and logistics planning for schools, hospitals, and DTC.
Seeking
Packaging engineering and supply-chain programs
Product Design Studio
Design teams shaping the next generation of bars, cookies, formulas, beverages, and supplement-replacement nutrition.
Seeking
Industrial design, food science, and culinary innovation programs
Social Media & Web Development
Student-led team keeping the brand on track — content, community, brand storytelling, and continuous web product development.
Seeking
Communications, marketing, and CS / web programs
Government, Policy & Grants
Team focused on getting safe meals into public schools nationwide, securing federal grants, and advancing FDA labeling reform.
Seeking
Public policy, public health, and political science programs
Brain. Gut. Allergies. Autism. Sensory. School access.
These crises are converging — and food is the common denominator. Lucian's Food handles access and advocacy. Sentinel Biosystems builds the manufacturing platform that makes safe food possible at scale. You can't have one without the other.
Brain & Gut Health
The gut-brain axis is foundational. Allergen-free, nutrient-dense food supports cognition, mood, and developmental health from day one.
Autism & Sensory Sensitivity
Sensory and dietary needs are rising. Predictable, safe textures and ingredients matter — and they're nearly impossible to find at scale.
Severe Food Allergies
Cross-contamination is the silent risk. Top-15 allergen-free manufacturing eliminates the daily calculation families currently make alone.
School Access & Affordability
Districts can't always afford safe food. Lucian's Food (nonprofit) closes that gap so no child eats less because they're allergic.
Bars
Medical-grade nutrition bars engineered to be top-15 allergen-free.
Cookies & Formulas
From the Hempty Dempty cookie to clinical formulas and supplement-replacement nutrition — all made in America, free of cross-contamination.
The Facility
Sentinel Biosystems' clean manufacturing vision: real robotic systems, stainless equipment, conveyors, packaging lines, and controlled production flow.
Make top-15 allergen labeling mandatory on every consumer good.
Today, only the top 9 allergens are required to be disclosed in the U.S. — and "may contain" disclosures are voluntary, inconsistent, and confusing. We're petitioning the FDA to require clear, mandatory disclosure of the top 15 allergens (and shared-facility statements) on every consumer good.
- Mandatory top-15 allergen disclosure on every label.
- Mandatory shared-facility / cross-contamination statements.
- Standardized language so families don't have to decode 'may contain' fine print.
Let families, teachers, and supporters tell the story with us
Supporters can share their name, photo, allergies, and real-life impact. Every submission stays pending until we approve it for the website.
Share how this would help you, your child, or your family
This short questionnaire becomes evidence in our SBIR grant application. Your responses (anonymized) help prove the real-world demand for safer, allergen-free food.
Help us reach the changemakers who can scale this mission
Endorse a sponsor we're already pursuing — or nominate a company, leader, or institution we should approach.
Tesla / Elon Musk
Robotics, automation, and bold engineering at scale.
Meta
Reach families and educators through inclusive technology.
SMUD
Local energy partner for a Sacramento-based clean facility.
USDA / FDA
Set a new federal standard for allergen-free food safety.
Davis Joint Unified
Already an approved vendor — scale safe meals district-wide.
UC Davis
Food science research and alternative protein collaboration.
San José State University
Active research partnership — student-led work on shelf-stable, healthier allergen-free formulations.