Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE
ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,755,858 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($5,951,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Democracy Fund Incshared funderslocal
- Climateworks Foundationportfolio match
- Advocates for Climate Innovationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 10% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300k → $2.3M.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 87% · 2022 82% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
61% of ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.8M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Democracy Fund Incshared funderslocalDC · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 123 organizations near you
- Climateworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advocates for Climate Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Resources Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Air Task Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reset Techportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bipartisan Policy Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Imperative Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of State$2.2M
- Department of the Treasury$476k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE?
- ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,755,858 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($5,951,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $9,755,858 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,951,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATIVE REGULATION INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing