Louisiana · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC
INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,869,450 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($450,000). 8 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $625k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $14k
What Institute for Local Innovations Inc does
Mission
ILI fosters equitable community-centered solutions to social economic environmental and public health challenges through innovation collaboration storytelling and capacity building. ILI empowers local leaders community-based organizations practitioners and residents by providing tools technical assistance structured inquiry methods strategic facilitation and implementation support that strengthen community-driven problem solving and long-term resilience. ILI facilitates collaboration among nonprofits philanthropy public agencies businesses academic institutions and community stakeholders through research training media-enhanced storytelling fiscal sponsorship technology-supported knowledge sharing and practitioner-informed frameworks that advance sustainable community development civic engagement environmental justice and systems change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Institute for Local Innovations ILI has made remarkable strides in empowering women-led not-for-profit organizations through its robust capacity-building initiatives and sponsorship support. ILI has consistently supported these organizations by providing comprehensive training programs mentoring and resources tailored to their needs. By enhancing their strategic planning project management fundraising and leadership skills ILI has effectively enabled these women leaders to address social and community challenges. Through its commitment to fostering gender equality and inclusive development ILI has created a supportive ecosystem for women leaders fostering collaboration networking and knowledge sharing. As a result women-led not-for-profit organizations have significantly impacted lives and created sustainable change in their communities.
$320,000 spentof which $147,615 as grants$225,000 earned by the program63% of program spendingILI contributed its expertise in strategic facilitation and community-centered planning to support visioning and engagement efforts in Africatown Mobile AL in collaboration with the Eastern Research Group ERG. Through a series of stakeholder sessions listening tours and capacity-building dialogues ILI helped elevate resident voices and align community priorities with environmental justice and redevelopment goals. This work included designing and leading culturally competent engagement strategies identifying local assets and barriers and co-developing actionable pathways to support environmental restoration and economic revitalization. By fostering trust and transparency between residents public agencies and technical partners ILI helped advance a shared vision for Africatowns future that honors its history centers its people and builds a foundation for long-term resilience.
$30,000 spent$30,000 earned by the program6% of program spendingILI utilized its Mi Rialiti platform to capture and preserve the lived experiences of senior residents-primarily those aged 70 and older-in Atlantas historic Pittsburgh neighborhood in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation Civic Site. This initiative focused on documenting the stories of long-time community members who have lived in the neighborhood for over 50 years using place-based and media-enhanced storytelling tools to archive their memories insights and reflections. By serving as a digital container of the neighborhoods history while it remains in living memory Mi Rialiti allowed residents to share their voices in their own words and images fostering intergenerational dialogue and cultural continuity. The project not only honored the elders contributions but also informed future planning and development efforts by grounding them in authentic community-rooted narratives.
$40,000 spent$40,000 earned by the program8% of program spendingILI advanced practitioner-led innovation collaboration storytelling and implementation-focused initiatives designed to foster equitable community-centered solutions to social economic environmental and public health challenges. Through its Ideation Studios STEM storytelling initiatives and the continued development of COMPENDIUM ILI strengthened community-driven problem solving knowledge sharing civic engagement and leadership development across multiple sectors and communities. ILI empowered local leaders community-based organizations practitioners entrepreneurs students and residents through structured inquiry methods strategic facilitation technology-supported knowledge sharing media-enhanced storytelling and implementation-oriented engagement designed to strengthen long-term resilience and community capacity. Through the University of Chicago Leadership Society Initiative LSI ILI expanded its Communities of Practice model connecting practitioners mission-driven organizations community stakeholders and emerging leaders through collaborative learning practitioner-informed frameworks and implementation-focused engagement. ILIs work aligned innovation entrepreneurship…
$116,615 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $506,615.
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 2024 to 2025, from $412k to $14k (−97%).
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.
95% of INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income fell $421k → $303k.
10 of 24 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.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS 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
INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2020 56% · 2021 65% · 2022 42% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
59% of INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC'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 $770k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC's revenue grew 17% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$150k
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 INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC?
- INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,869,450 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($450,000). 8 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 LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,869,450 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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