Rhode Island · Nonprofit
INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES
INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,060,204 to it, the largest being WILLIAM T GRANT FOUNDATION INC ($510,204). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporatedlocal
- State Policy Networkportfolio match
- Digital Harbor Foundationportfolio match
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 17% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $306k → $350k.
From the IRS filings of INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES’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 POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 84% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 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.
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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- June Rockwell Levy Foundation IncorporatedlocalRI · funds 124 organizations near you
- State Policy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Digital Harbor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mywirelessorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlas Economic Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter G Peterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chestnut Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Redwood Creek Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Koch Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Security Project Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center on Budget and Policy Prioritiesportfolio 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 POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES: 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 POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES?
- INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,060,204 to it, the largest being WILLIAM T GRANT FOUNDATION INC ($510,204). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,060,204 in grants to INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES?
- WILLIAM T GRANT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $510,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2018–2024), 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. 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