Maryland · Nonprofit
Innovative Learning Inc
Innovative Learning Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,497,083 to it, the largest being Harbour School Foundation Inc ($3,385,088). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Innovative Learning Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Family League of Baltimore City Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore Cityshared fundersportfolio match
- Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Incshared funders
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.
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.
4% of Innovative Learning Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $403k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Innovative Learning Inc’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
Innovative Learning Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
99% 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 Innovative Learning Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 92% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% — 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
99% of Innovative Learning Inc's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Family League of Baltimore City Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore Cityshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- The Heal Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Education Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hsc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wiessner Foundation for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Add Impact Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacob C Koch Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thomas W Bradley Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like Innovative Learning Inc
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.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Harbour School Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Innovative Learning Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Innovative Learning Inc?
- Innovative Learning Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,497,083 to it, the largest being Harbour School Foundation Inc ($3,385,088). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Innovative Learning Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,497,083 in grants to Innovative Learning Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Innovative Learning Inc?
- Harbour School Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,385,088 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Innovative Learning Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing