Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,698 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($484,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC is better cushioned than half of the 481 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 481 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Incshared funders
- The Ann C and John a Henry III Foundationportfolio match
- Ibis Groupportfolio 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: 2020 1% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $194k → $48k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT 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
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 78% · 2019 77% · 2020 67% · 2021 75% · 2022 81% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $77k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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.
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- The Ann C and John a Henry III Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ibis Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thomas W Bradley Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Genave K Rogers Charportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dodge Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teamsters Local 25 Autism Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacob C Koch Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Family Assistance Center for Education Training and Support Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Disability Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Claure Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thompson Family 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT 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.
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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC?
- RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,698 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($484,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $616,698 in grants to RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $484,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING & DEVELO DEVELOPMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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