Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY
CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,400,000 to it, the largest being Walton Education Coalition Inc ($850,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,604 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,604 international 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.
- Edison Electric Institute Incshared funders
- State Policy Networkportfolio match
- R Street Instituteportfolio 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.
100% of CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $135k → $225k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest America Works USA). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY’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 INNOVATIVE POLICY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INNOVATIVE POLICY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 80% · 2019 57% · 2020 80% · 2021 57% · 2022 67% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edison Electric Institute Incshared fundersDC · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- State Policy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R Street Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chestnut Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americans for Tax Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center on Budget and Policy Prioritiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- NetChoiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mywirelessorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlas Economic Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Purple Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Policy Instituteportfolio 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.
Organizations like CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Jobs and Opportunity · exempt
- Guarantee Our Votes Project · exempt
- Democratic Governors Association · exempt
- American Opportunity · exempt
- Democratic Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY: 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 INNOVATIVE POLICY?
- CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,400,000 to it, the largest being Walton Education Coalition Inc ($850,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,400,000 in grants to CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY?
- Walton Education Coalition Inc is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY 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 13funders 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