Maryland · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC
CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,952,905 to it, the largest being The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($1,064,230). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter 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.
- Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporationlocal
- Digital Harbor Foundationportfolio match
- Contina Impactportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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: 2017 0% · 2020 16% · 2021 21% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $565k → $313k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC’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
CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“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
CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Anne Arundel Economic Development CorporationlocalMD · funds 699 organizations near you
- Digital Harbor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Contina Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Democracy Matters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impetus Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Global Development Incubator Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Quadriviumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- PGBeil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acumen Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progressportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future Now Actionportfolio 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 CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$49k
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 CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC: 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 CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC?
- CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,952,905 to it, the largest being The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($1,064,230). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,952,905 in grants to CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC?
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,064,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR INNOVATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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