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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $798k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions does
Mission
The Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions at st. Petersburg college is dedicated to advancing academic excellence, community engagement, economic vitality and public understanding through high-quality,solutions-directed,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions (isps) continued to expand its impact through thoughtful programming and meaningful community engagement. In the tampa bay area, isps hosted a dynamic panel on the future of florida's transportation, moderated by award-winning journalist vickie chachere and featuring jose de jesus of port tampa bay, jason jackman from the center for urban transportation research, and beau zimmer of tampa international airport. Former board chair judge irene sullivan also led a compelling panel on listening to children, in partnership with the st. Petersburg and clearwater bar associations. Isps also continued its
$314,653 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $314,653.
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 2021 to 2022, from $422k to $14M (+3296%).
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 (57% 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
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.
Board chair
Alysen Heil
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC POLICY SOLUTIONS
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 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.
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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.
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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 3 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