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Innovation Works Inc

The corporation will develop sustainable neighborhood economies in depressed areas by: igniting interest in sustainable social enterprise, helping individuals transform challenges into opportunities, creating sustainable social enterprises, growing family wage jobs, and scaling local solutions to national markets. Training and developing…

$8k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$5k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Innovation Works Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$5k100%
FY20213$88kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Education$43kHousing & Shelter$25kCommunity Improvement$20kArts & Culture$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Infinite Focus Inc$42,5001n/a
Parity Baltimore Incorporated$25,000111%
Chill Station$20,0001n/a
Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District$5,00010%

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About Innovation Works Inc

How much does Innovation Works Inc give?
Innovation Works Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,000, out of $7,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Innovation Works Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (46%), Housing & Shelter (27%), Community Improvement (22%).
Who are Innovation Works Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Infinite Focus Inc ($43k), Parity Baltimore Incorporated ($25k), Chill Station ($20k).
Does Innovation Works Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Innovation Works Inc based?
Innovation Works Inc is based in MD.

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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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