Florida · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS
INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,078,005 to it, the largest being ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ($16,066,705). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS is better cushioned than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Hough Family Foundation Incshared funders
- The FY Chang Foundationportfolio match
- Chiavacci Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $314k → $14M.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS’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 STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 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
100% of INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 88 organizations that share them.
- Hough Family Foundation Incshared fundersFL · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- The FY Chang Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chiavacci Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting-Usportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pierre F & Enid Goodrich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apgar Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Telecom Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battier Take Charge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph D and Margit Ambersley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stiles-Nicholson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mitchell Wolfson Sr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- St Petersburg College · exempt
- St Petersburg College Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS: 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.
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 STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS?
- INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,078,005 to it, the largest being ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ($16,066,705). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,078,005 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS?
- ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,066,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), 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