North Carolina · Nonprofit
IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION
IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,150,851 to it, the largest being THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION ($2,414,548). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $866k
What Impact Innovators and Entrepreneurs Foundation does
Mission
To create an impact on the lives of the disadvantaged, under-served populations by nurturing models of innovation and entrepreneurship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Impact Innovators and Entrepreneurs Foundation is a member-led network of impact incubators and accelerators in the global south. We exist to support the supporters providing peer learning, shared resources, connections, and programming that helps incubators grow stronger. We believe the ecosystem changes when incubators are strengthened from within. Impact Innovators and Entrepreneurs Foundation brings together incubators across east africa, south asia and southeast asia. Through shared best practice and collective action, Impact Innovators and Entrepreneurs Foundation is helping incubators provide more consistent, high-quality support while strengthening their voice within the ecosystem. By generating evidence and convening key stakeholders, the network is enabling incubators to influence funders, investors, and policymakers.
$562,219 spentof which $232,405 as grants$21,970 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $562,219.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $483k to $968k (+100%).
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: 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Arielle Molino
Chief convener/CEO
Board chair
Astou Dia
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $785k.
From the IRS filings of IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS 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
IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 88% — 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
IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, 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.
Against its field
IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS 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 IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION?
- IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,150,851 to it, the largest being THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION ($2,414,548). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,150,851 in grants to IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION?
- THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,414,548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMPACT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing