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Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE INC (Washington, D.C.) is funded by 4 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $12,177,500 in grants to it, the largest being DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE ($12,150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 695 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
$28k from 3 funders in 2025, up from $12M and 1 in 2024.
From the IRS filings of INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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: 2024 100% · 2025 73% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE INC is locally rooted: 100% of its grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 179 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
90% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 30 states
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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. view filing