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IF FOUNDATION

IF FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,973 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($992,785). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$20M
5/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What If Foundation does

Program

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The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($27M)2018 Revenue 110 ($1.4M) Expenses 106 ($2.4M) Net assets 89 ($24M)2019 Revenue 58 ($738k) Expenses 99 ($2.2M) Net assets 98 ($26M)2020 Revenue 146 ($1.8M) Expenses 114 ($2.6M) Net assets 106 ($28M)2021 Revenue 231 ($2.9M) Expenses 155 ($3.5M) Net assets 111 ($30M)2022 Revenue 170 ($2.1M) Expenses 183 ($4.1M) Net assets 80 ($21M)2023 Revenue 174 ($2.2M) Expenses 198 ($4.5M) Net assets 82 ($22M)2024 Revenue 118 ($1.5M) Expenses 188 ($4.2M) Net assets 76 ($20M)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (188)Net assets (76)Peer revenue range

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 $30M to $22M (−27%).

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$24M
$26M
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$22M
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$21M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Joined·+0+2+4+0+2+5+0
No longer listed·3031241
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $73k → $1.4M.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 IF FOUNDATION’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

IF FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

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largest funder
70%
top three
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effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 53% · 2020 82% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.

“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

14% of IF FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

IF FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IF FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like IF FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IF FOUNDATION: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds IF FOUNDATION?
IF FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,973 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($992,785). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IF FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,028,973 in grants to IF FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IF FOUNDATION?
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $992,785 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IF FOUNDATION 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 14 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