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Fund for Innovation and Public Services

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$534k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$310,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$7.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Fund for Innovation and Public Services funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCivil RightsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$531k22%
FY202317$413k18%
FY202220$461k10%
FY202123$477k26%
FY202021$279k29%
FY201924$403k21%
FY201825$423k40%
FY201724$387kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$2.7MEducation$130kEnvironment$67kPublic Benefit$54kEmployment$51kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$15kCivil Rights$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ashoka$2,593,17782%
First Book$64,70070%
Gender Action$58,700815%
Environmental Protection Network$55,75081%
Get America Working Inc$51,000448%
Turnout Activism Inc$42,00042%
Youth Venture Inc$15,00012%
Global Fairness Initiative$12,0001n/a
New Georgia Project Inc$10,00010%
Meridian Institute$6,00010%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($459k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fund for Innovation and Public Services supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAshoka: $2,593,177 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFirst Book: $64,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGender Action: $58,700 over 8y, 15% of budgetEnvironmental Protection Network: $55,750 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGet America Working Inc: $51,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetTurnout Activism Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYouth Venture Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNew Georgia Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeridian Institute: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDemocracy 21: $1,625 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Inspired Teaching: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Coaching Alliance: $485 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlayworks Education Energized: $450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Rock Forest Consortium Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Arts & Sciences: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $280 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $270 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Corps Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLearnserve International: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Sustainable Energy: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buckley School: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp to Belong: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSing for Hope Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlas Service Corps Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Services in Iowa Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Fund for Innovation and Public Services through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Fund for Innovation and Public Services

How much does Fund for Innovation and Public Services give?
Fund for Innovation and Public Services reported 20 grants totaling $534,470 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fund for Innovation and Public Services fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (79%), Education (4%), Environment (2%).
Who are Fund for Innovation and Public Services's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ashoka ($2.6M), First Book ($65k), Gender Action ($59k).
Does Fund for Innovation and Public Services fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fund for Innovation and Public Services accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Innovation and Public Services?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Fund for Innovation and Public Services based?
Fund for Innovation and Public Services is based in VA.

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 63 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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