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INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS

INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,500 to it, the largest being CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$751k
Revenue FY2023
3
Funders on record
$127k
Grants received
$-177256
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 288 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $30k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
$10k
funders
1
2
2

From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS’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 STATE POLICY LEADERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 STATE POLICY LEADERS.

47%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 67%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.

Where its funders are

INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.

CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

22
23
Virginia out of state home

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.

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.

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 STATE POLICY LEADERS

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 Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 21%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS: 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 STATE POLICY LEADERS?
INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,500 to it, the largest being CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $126,500 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS?
CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR STATE POLICY LEADERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 3funders 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