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.
Against its field
POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Lily Lai Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Legler Benbough Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
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.
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 400 organizations that share them.
- Lily Lai Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 104 organizations that share your funders · funds 157 organizations near you
- The Legler Benbough Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Karney Flaster Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environmental Health Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maria Mandico and Benet Marquet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sizwin Itp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Patricia and Christopher Weil Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albatross Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dennis and Pamela Mudd Charitable Foundation C/O Baker Tilly US LLPportfolio 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.
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
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 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.
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 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.
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 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