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INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY

INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,550 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($87,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.8M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$148k
Grants received
$5.2M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve33.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−43% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($170k) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 19 ($1.1M) Expenses 545 ($928k) Net assets 103 ($5.6M)2025 Revenue 33 ($1.8M) Expenses 969 ($1.7M) Net assets 97 ($5.2M)
202320242025
Revenue (33)Expenses (969)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 26% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.4M
23
$136k
24
$166k
25
34
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $7.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY raised.

From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY’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

INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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

100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY.

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

59% of INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 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.

Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY: 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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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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY?
INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,550 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($87,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $147,550 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY.
Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY?
President and Fellows of Harvard College is the largest funder on record, with $87,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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