Maryland · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,733 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences does
Mission
Informs leads in the development, dissemination and implementation of knowledge, research, and technologies in operations research, analytics, the management sciences, and related methods of improving operational processes, decision making, and management.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conferences and meetings - informs arranges an annual meeting and a meeting for practicing professionals to give the members the opportunity to interact with colleagues, present research, and learn the latest methods and technologies. Other meetings are offered in addition to these two major meetings each year.
$4,225,419 spent$6,220,300 earned by the program29% of program spendingPublications - informs produces seventeen scientific and scholarly journals which are published on a monthly, bi-monthly, and quarterly basis that describe the latest operations research and analytics methods and application, and an industry and membership magazine with news from across the profession.
$3,915,638 spentof which $52,500 as grants$5,843,506 earned by the program27% of program spendingMember programs - membership in informs provides members many personal and professional career enhancing resources. The programs include informs connect, communities, professional recognition, volunteer opportunities, informs online and career resources.
$3,522,891 spentof which $200 as grants$1,301,029 earned by the program24% of program spendingInstitute committees and programs - various committees and programs designed to further the organization's mission.
$838,720 spentof which $229,749 as grants$332,398 earned by the program6% of program spendingSubdivision program - subdivisions consist of societies, forums, special interest groups, chapters, and student chapters. They provide an opportunity for members to network with others in their regional and technical areas of interest. Subdivisions sponsor meetings, web pages, newsletters, workshops, and awards and co-sponsor select informs journals.
$514,138 spent$486,834 earned by the program4% of program spendingInformation technology
$1,385,603 spent10% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,402,409.
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 2023 to 2024, from $26M to $32M (+24%).
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 6% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Elena A Gerstmann
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $62 → $37.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES’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 OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 59% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 43 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 social science nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
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 Maryland
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
91%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES?
- INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,733 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $53,733 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES?
- Carnegie Mellon University is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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