Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,241,284 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($27,717,732). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $130M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation does
Mission
Innovations for poverty action discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: ipa partnered with the lego foundation and ministries of education in five countries to establish embedded evidence labs aimed at improving early learning outcomes for children. The primary objective is to enhance the use of data and evidence for education policy by embedding teams within the ministries. This approach fosters a horizontal learning process, enabling both parties to learn from each other while simultaneously building capacity in data and evidence utilization.in rwanda, ipa and the georgetown university initiative on innovation, development and evaluation (gui2 de) have established an embedded evidence lab to support the ministry of education in scaling a successful pay-for-performance contract scheme. The lab's current focus is on supporting the government of rwanda's new comprehensive assessment in public schools, which is necessary for an effective scale-up of the contract initiative. Its broader vision is to serve as a central hub providing services related to diverse educational themes, engaging with academics, strengthening policy-analytic capabilities, and fostering iterative feedback loops for policy design, evaluation, and adaptation. Ultimately,…
$13,045,825 spentof which $3,610,664 as grants$1,505,221 earned by the program31% of program spendingThe financial inclusion program seeks to inform programs that can ensure low-income households have access to affordable and safe services to manage their financial resources. In 2022, ipa launched an embedded lab at the central bank of nigeria to strengthen the use of data and evidence-based decision-making within the department to enhance consumer protection policies and programs. It established the financial inclusion program scientific advisor group and the interoperable payment systems group and convened the annual researcher gathering. It completed a project in indonesia and lesotho on women entrepreneurs' access to financial services, which included working directly with financial service providers on prototyping new products and services based on rigorous evidence. In addition, ipa published five financial inclusion briefs and developed and launched new projects in bangladesh, the philippines, and tanzania.
$5,940,239 spent14% of program spendingOne notable rct conducted by ipa in partnership with researchers michael kremer and edward miguel in kenya examined the impact of a free deworming program for children at schools. The results were remarkable. The program reduced serious worm infections by 61 percent and even had positive effects on untreated children in nearby areas (known as spillover effects). These health improvements translated into significant educational benefits, including a 25 percent reduction in school absenteeism and increased attendance in secondary school, particularly for girls.
$5,546,491 spent13% of program spendingPeace & recovery: ipa's work on peace and recovery aims to build rigorous evidence on effective ways to increase peace and stability in conflict and crisis-affected contexts. In 2022, ipa supported new research projects in this sector through a competitive research fund, including work on peacebuilding in nigeria, militarized policing in brazil, and integration of venezuelan migrants in colombia. Ipa also launched the displaced livelihoods initiative, a dedicated research fund to generate evidence on livelihoods programs for displaced populations.
$4,739,254 spent11% of program spendingSocial protection: the social protection sector program aims to support countries to identify and implement the most effective poverty reduction program that they can afford, given their financial and political contexts. Ipa has a growing body of research on identifying and scaling effective social protection programs, including cash transfers, graduation programs, and job training. In 2022, ipa continued to expand its work with the united states agency for international development (usaid) and bureau for humanitarian assistance (bha) with new research targeting resilience and food security for vulnerable households in mozambique and continues to advance similar studies in uganda, zimbabwe and malawi. The sector also began a new partnership with the boma project in kenya, investigating adaptations to graduation programs sitting at the nexus of climate change and social protection with support from the ikea foundation.
$5,546,491 spent13% of program spendingInnovations for poverty action (ipa) is a global research and policy nonprofit that discovers and advances what works to improve the lives of people living in poverty. Limited evidence exists on what works to help people living in poverty, and the evidence that does exist often goes unused. This leads to programs that are either ineffective or not as effective as they could be, and often to wasted money and enduring poverty. Ipa exists to solve these problems. Ipa tests promising ideas across contexts and along the path to scale, proactively engages key decision-makers throughout the research process, shares findings with the right people at the right time, and equips partners with the skills and tools they need to use data and evidence.since ipa's founding in 2002, the organization has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 900 evaluations in 52 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.
$7,122,349 spent17% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,940,649.
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 $31M to $39M (+26%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 14% · 2019 11% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 5% · 2023 6% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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
Annie Duflo
Executive director
Board chair
Russell Siegelman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $14M → $24M.
19 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 funders by total. 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
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% 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 INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 32% · 2019 40% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 18% · 2023 36% — 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
53% of INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION is better cushioned than half of the 43 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 social science nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.9M on record.
- Department of State$16.8M
- Agency for International Development$12.6M
- Department of Labor$1.5M
- National Science Foundation$913k
- Millennium Challenge Corporation$99k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: 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 INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,241,284 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($27,717,732). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $130,241,284 in grants to INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,717,732 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION 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 89 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