Minnesota · Nonprofit
POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC
POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,254,695 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,107,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Policy Innovators in Education Network Inc does
Mission
To build, support and promote a network of education advocacy organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pie network connects more than 186 organizations working in 37 states and washington, dc to provide resources, connections, and know-how to help make their work more efficient and effective. Pie network connects national partners to local and state-level advocacy leaders working with students, families, teachers, business and civic leaders, civil rights organizations, and others who work to improve public schools through organizing, advocacy, and policy change.
$3,077,320 spent$223,882 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,077,320.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.4M to $1.4M (−68%).
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: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Alexander
Executive director
Board chair
Maya Martin Cadogan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $250k → $1.5M.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC’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 INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2020 43% · 2021 47% · 2022 36% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC: 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 INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC?
- POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,254,695 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,107,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $11,254,695 in grants to POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,107,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLICY INNOVATORS IN EDUCATION NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 23 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