Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FEEDBACK LABS
FEEDBACK LABS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,455,688 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($4,142,937). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $653k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Feedback Labs does
Mission
Feedback Labs' mission is to support philanthropy, nonprofits, and other social sector organizations to regularly listen and act on feedback in high-quality, equitable, and inclusive ways. These supported organizations will exchange information and share power with people at the heart of their work for more effective and equitable outcomes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community: labstorms/feedback summit, blog posts & membership: Feedback Labs offers opportunities for nonprofits, foundations, and governments to participate in Feedback Labs' educational programming, such as problem-solving labstorms, issue-specific summits, and fellowship programs. Such educational events provide opportunities for these organizations to join the Feedback Labs' network of organizations and individuals interested in learning more about feedback loops and their potential to improve charities. In order for feedback to be the expected thing, people need to have a community to support them in their efforts, share experiences, and help create standards, incentives, tools, etc. Together. This program aims to maintain a community with scalable and systematic ways (continued on schedule o) to engage through a coherent membership structure and to provide meaningful benefits and engagements to community members. We convene the above organizations and hundreds more in large meetings (annual summits and crash course); and frequent smaller meetings (bi-weekly labstorms).
$635,930 spentof which $72,564 as grants$47,465 earned by the program73% of program spendingIncentives: collaborative research; irritants programming; and funder learning group: since our inception, we have worked with major foundations, aid agencies, government agencies, and impact investors to frame conceptual issues and carry out research related to feedback loops. This high level conceptual agenda supported nonprofits in taking their first step towards new feedback practices and behaviors. The development of the incentives strategy built from this early work. In order for feedback to become the expected thing, it needs to be easy to carry out and people need to be rewarded for doing it well. In this program, Feedback Labs works with existing platforms, philanthropic rating systems, and others working on good public practice to create rewards for organizations who are carrying out good feedback practice.
$161,086 spent$2,859 earned by the program18% of program spendingTools and training: feedback quiz; feedback resources & toolkit; feedback webinars; crash course and other tranings: Feedback Labs promotes effective feedback practices by engaging a growing community in-person and through online forums to support widespread experimentation of closing feedback loops. Feedback Labs supports practical action and experimentation needed to figure out how to close the loop by connecting practitioners, researchers, and funders with tools, approaches, and each other. In order for feedback to be the expected thing, there need to be easily accessible resources to help people to do feedback well. This program seeks to understand where the need and demand is for feedback-related tools and trainings, to create and curate tools and training to meet that (continued on schedule o) demand, and to cover the costs of these activities through earned revenue. Feedback Labs further drives the feedback discourse by providing common language and theoretical grounding for feedback concepts. We work at senior levels in aid agencies, foundations, governments, and impact investors to assist senior management to develop strategies and incentives for the adoption of feedback…
$76,150 spent$6,862 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $873,166.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $613k to $1.7M (+174%).
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: 2021 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FEEDBACK LABS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Britt Lake
CEO
Board chair
Bryan Simmons
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $770k → $1.7M.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 FEEDBACK LABS’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
FEEDBACK LABS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 FEEDBACK LABS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 86% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 91% · 2022 77% · 2023 84% — 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
29% of FEEDBACK LABS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
76% of FEEDBACK LABS'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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
FEEDBACK LABS is better cushioned than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FEEDBACK LABS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FEEDBACK LABS?
- FEEDBACK LABS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,455,688 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($4,142,937). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FEEDBACK LABS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $5,455,688 in grants to FEEDBACK LABS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEEDBACK LABS?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,142,937 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEEDBACK LABS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing