· Public charity
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation
Innovations for poverty action discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $1,833,777 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,482,661 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,648,884 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $406k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $360,457 |
| THE FREEDOM FUND | $207,542 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $174,485 |
| UNIV OF PENN TRUSTE | $127,091 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL | $115,673 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $110,972 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $104,138 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $95,056 |
| THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY | $60,000 |
| BUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INC | $51,429 |
| THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $49,453 |
| END MODERN SLAVERY INITIATIVE FOUND | $41,316 |
| INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $27,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $26,013 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $630k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.6M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: WOMEN AND GIRLS FIRST · RESEARCHER DIVERSIFICATION INITIATIVE- RWANDA · CAN RADIO REDUCE IPV?
Stated purpose: ECD TECH INTERVENTION · PREVENTING HOMICIDES BY IMPROVING HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY IN COLOMBIA · GUARDIAN - SCHOOL DROP OUT GUATEMALA
Stated purpose: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE IMPACT OF WORK PERMITS · IMPROVEMENTS OF SAFE AND EMPOWERING RESPONSES TO CHILD TRAFFICKING DISCLOSURES · UCL (GREECE)
Stated purpose: EVALUATION OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME · THE IMPACTS OF FAST RETAIL PAYMENTS ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND INNOVATION
Stated purpose: REFUGEE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL MARKETS IN A HUMANITARIAN SETTING
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC7× · 2017–2024 · $951k · revenue +81%
- SFSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND6× · 2017–2023 · $512k · revenue +29%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL3× · 2022–2024 · $460k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- IBINTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $255k
- IINTUITone grant, 2017 · $130k
- PDPRECISION DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Eleison Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM FUND ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds END MODERN SLAVERY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRECISION DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ELEISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Network for Empowerment & Progressive Initiatives - Nepi Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Gates Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Family Health International Inc · Humanity United · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Network for Empowerment & Progressive Initiatives - Nepi Inc — 48% of income from government
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- International Youth Foundation — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.