California · Nonprofit
POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER
POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,000 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($130,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $255k
- Net assets
- $441k
What Policy & Innovation Center does
Mission
The Policy & Innovation Center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. Our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional collaborations. Pic develops, tests, and implements world-class research and policy-driven solutions to support climate resilience, critical infrastructure, affordable housing, quality jobs, and building community wealth for disinvested communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule o.using research and data analysis, the Policy & Innovation Center produced regional plans, informed the county of san diego's climate action plan, and developed municipal financing and housing solutions, also, the Policy & Innovation Center identified local gaps in baccalaureate degrees to assist a community college district to offer four-year degree programs.
$0 spent0% of program spendingSee schedule o.applying equity focused research to our region's most pressing challenges. Found significant disparities in every domain and demographic, but some of the starkest were racial disparities in employment and income. Countinued to track progress san diego county youth have made despite a variety of obstacles from discrimination to homelessness and identified opportunities for targeted assistance. Examined drivers on water prices and potential financial solutions to mitigate water poverty.
$0 spent0% of program spendingSee schedule o.applications, contract proposals and research led to awards totaling over $15 million to the region, alongside continued grants of $4.5 million.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe organization has been:(1) bringing together and fostering collaboration and consensus among local governmental bodies, community leaders, researchers, subject matter experts, and stakeholders from across the region;(2) collecting and analyzing data and conducting rigorous original research to help effectively address the region's public infrastructure, health, housing, environmental and other community needs, and making the results publicly available;(3) developing and helping implement innovative strategies and solutions based on that data research;(4) helping local governmental bodies increase federal grant funding and identify and obtain other funding resources to address public needs across the region; and(5) sharing the research, results, policies and innovations nationally, to benefit the public in other regions of the u.s.
$3,028,528 spent$580,834 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,028,528.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $4.0M to $11M (+180%).
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: 2022 14% · 2023 27% · 2024 26% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Susan L Guinn
CEO, president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100k → $130k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER’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
POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
100% of POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER's grant income comes from California 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
POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $323k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$323k
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 POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The San Diego Foundation · exempt
- Alliance to the San Diego Regional Policy and Innovation Center · exempt
- Innovation & Resilience Ventures · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER: 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 POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER?
- POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,000 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($130,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $255,000 in grants to POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER?
- THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), 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