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Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation

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Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation

Q: How much does Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation give?

Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation reported 32 itemized grants totaling $1,833,777, out of $3,482,661 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Q: What does Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), International (29%), Education (26%).

Q: Who are Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents of the University of California at Berkeley ($2.0M), International Rescue Committee INC ($951k), University of California San Francisco ($895k).

Q: Does Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation based?

Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation is based in DC.

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$3.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$360k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.5MInternational$3.3MEducation$3.0MEnvironment$370kRecreation & Sports$368kFood & Nutrition$348kCommunity Improvement$195kEmployment$186kOther$0

02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 32 grants below total $1,833,777, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,482,661 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,648,884 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k19 grants · $406k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
$250k+1 grant · $360k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its 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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$618k · 38% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: WOMEN AND GIRLS FIRST · RESEARCHER DIVERSIFICATION INITIATIVE- RWANDA · CAN RADIO REDUCE IPV?

South America$609k · 37% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: ECD TECH INTERVENTION · PREVENTING HOMICIDES BY IMPROVING HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY IN COLOMBIA · GUARDIAN - SCHOOL DROP OUT GUATEMALA

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$299k · 18% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE IMPACT OF WORK PERMITS · IMPROVEMENTS OF SAFE AND EMPOWERING RESPONSES TO CHILD TRAFFICKING DISCLOSURES · UCL (GREECE)

South Asia$103k · 6% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: EVALUATION OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME · THE IMPACTS OF FAST RETAIL PAYMENTS ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND INNOVATION

North America (Canada and Mexico)$10k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: REFUGEE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL MARKETS IN A HUMANITARIAN SETTING

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 30% of Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 4%.

Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.6M · 28 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.6M

$869k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+18%

Still filing today

61%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEmploymentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

IR
International Rescue Committee INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $951k · revenue +81%
SF
SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND
6× · 2017–2023 · $512k · revenue +29%
CP
COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
3× · 2022–2024 · $460k · revenue +68%

Funded once

IB
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
one grant, 2021 · $255k
I
INTUIT
one grant, 2017 · $130k
PD
PRECISION DEVELOPMENT INC
one grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue +18%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

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,…

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University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Lehigh University

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…

Education

The George Washington University

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…

Education

William Marsh Rice University

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…

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

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

Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

Drexel University

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…

Education

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Western New England University

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…

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

31/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,913,438Education$2,238,641International$1,693,548Human Services$648,009Philanthropy$425,559Recreation & Sports$368,006Food & Nutrition$291,835

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund IncNY19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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