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Foundation for Improvement of Public Services

The FOUNDATION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES (formerly u.s. Communities foundation) is a nonprofit organization that provides charitable and educational support to state and local governmental agencies, by sponsoring conferences, commissioning and and publicizing studies on public policy and public benefit, and supporting public…

$145k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
4
Organizations funded FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$50,000
States reached, FY2018
2

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$50,00010%
Kids in Need Foundation$31,8251n/a
National Institute of Governmental Purchasing Inc$12,81010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

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About Foundation for Improvement of Public Services

How much does Foundation for Improvement of Public Services give?
Foundation for Improvement of Public Services reported 4 grants totaling $145,195 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Foundation for Improvement of Public Services fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (35%), Philanthropy (35%), Education (22%).
Who are Foundation for Improvement of Public Services's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($50k), Kids in Need Foundation ($32k), National Institute of Governmental Purchasing Inc ($13k).
Where is Foundation for Improvement of Public Services based?
Foundation for Improvement of Public Services is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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