· Public charity
Institute for Human Centered Design Inc
Institute for human centered design (ihcd) is an international non-profit committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages, abilities, and culture through excellence in design.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE ON DISABILITY | $25,000 |
| ADA COALITION OF CONNECTICUT INC | $24,075 |
| RHODE ISLAND GOVERNORS COMMISSION ON DISABILITY | $18,500 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNORS COMMISSION ON DISABILITY | $16,075 |
| ALPHA ONE | $16,000 |
| VERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $16,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AWAmericans with Disabilities Act Coalition of Connecticut Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue -7% · 75% of their budget
- CCCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $206k
- VCVERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- MOMASSACHUSETTS OFFICE ON DISABILITYone grant, 2017 · $29k
- RIRHODE ISLAND GOVERNORS COMMISSION ON DISABILITYone grant, 2017 · $21k
- NHNEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNORS COMMISSION ON DISABILITYone grant, 2017 · $19k
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.
3 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. 3 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Institute for Human Centered Design Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Human Centered Design Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Center for Independent Living Inc: 29% of income from government
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