Massachusetts · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,441,906 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($4,638,350). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc does
Mission
The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and sustainable. Inp offers year long certificate programs for nonprofit executives, managers, and emerging leaders in both national programs open to all around the country and a select portfolio of place-based programs in 11 locations: boston, ma, cape cod & the islands, ma, merrimack valley/essex county, ma, providence, ri, dallas, tx, detroit, mi, los angeles, ca, san francisco bay area, ca, seattle, wa, new york, ny and buffalo/western new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy25 the institute for nonprofit practice (inp) served 472 graduates from 372 unique organizations across a growing portfolio of programs designed for individuals working at social impact organizations. In addition, inp offered support and programming for its almost 5,000 students and alumni from coast to coast. Inp's programs are rooted in a practical, comprehensive, and highly effective curriculum that goes beyond weekly lectures to incorporate valuable peer-to-peer learning and cross sector collaboration in a hands-on, dynamic environment. Combining best-in-class management and leadership development, inp programs serve leaders at all levels of their careers. In fy25, inp served social impact sector professionals through both national programs open to all around the country and a select portfolio of place-based programs in 11 locations: boston, ma, cape cod & the islands, ma, merrimack valley/essex county, ma, providence, ri, dallas, tx, detroit, mi, los angeles, ca, san francisco bay area, ca, seattle, wa, new york, ny and buffalo/western new york.
$4,645,743 spent$765 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,645,743.
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.
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 $2.9M to $6.2M (+116%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
Yolanda Coentro
President & CEO
Board chair
Susan Cohen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $383k → $4.6M.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
41% 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 NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 32% · 2019 19% · 2020 30% · 2021 24% · 2022 24% · 2023 18% — 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
69% of INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
67% of INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$4k
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 NONPROFIT PRACTICE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE 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 NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC?
- INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,441,906 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($4,638,350). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $23,441,906 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,638,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 56 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing