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RESOLVE INC

RESOLVE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,841,960 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($1,937,300). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.1M
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$4.2M
24/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Resolve Inc does

Mission

Resolve forges sustainable solutions to critical social, health, and environmental challenges by creating innovative partnerships where they are least likely and most needed. We envision a less polarized world with a shared commitment to transforming ambitious ideas into real benefits for people, communities, and ecosystems.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Healthy communities - we promote equitable health access and outcomes for all people, communities, and populations by fostering and supporting the development of policies, strategies, and partnerships. Our successes include improving food and water safety, championing sustainable agricultural practices, and enhancing community disaster preparedness and resiliency.

    $1,142,933 spent$96,929 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  2. Conservation - we protect ecosystems, species, and people through ground-breaking research and peer reviewed publications; by creating local, multi-sector constituencies for targeted land protection and restoration; producing leading edge biodiversity science that underpins global conservation efforts; and designing and scaling technology to protect species and communities. Our success includes land and watershed restoration agreements, ground-breaking peer reviewed publications, and breakthrough conservation technologies.

    $1,697,190 spentof which $18,266 as grants$1,076,372 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  3. Sustainable resources - we seek to improve the social, environmental, and development contribution of the natural resource sector and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future. We promote the ethical and sustainable production, use, and re-use of natural resources and the products made with them. We work at a local and global level to implement voluntary, market, policy, and development solutions to critical resource and social challenges. Our successes include more responsible minerals supply chains, tools for better company/community relationships, impact investment in social enterprise, and climate response innovations.

    $6,683,818 spentof which $2,297,301 as grants$4,116,669 earned by the program
    70% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,523,941.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.7M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2018 Revenue 81 ($5.5M) Expenses 114 ($5.7M) Net assets 93 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 96 ($6.5M) Expenses 107 ($5.4M) Net assets 126 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 84 ($5.7M) Expenses 115 ($5.8M) Net assets 125 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 91 ($6.1M) Expenses 138 ($7.0M) Net assets 102 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 127 ($8.6M) Expenses 121 ($6.1M) Net assets 157 ($6.3M)2023 Revenue 120 ($8.1M) Expenses 155 ($7.8M) Net assets 162 ($6.4M)2024 Revenue 147 ($9.9M) Expenses 210 ($11M) Net assets 150 ($6.0M)2025 Revenue 135 ($9.1M) Expenses 217 ($11M) Net assets 105 ($4.2M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (217)Net assets (105)Peer revenue range

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 $5.2M to $11M (+103%).

$5.1M
$5.0M
$5.8M
$6.3M
$5.2M
$11M
$12M
$15M
$12M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

36% of RESOLVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’17
−$239k
’18
$1.1M
’19
−$90k
’20
−$837k
’21
$2.5M
’22
$345k
’23
−$629k
’24
−$1.8M
’25
0.8
months of
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

Stephen D'Esposito

President and CEO

Board chair

Britt Banks

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed12101110101291212
Joined·+0+1+0+1+4+0+3+1
No longer listed·20112301
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $224k → $1.2M.

11 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 RESOLVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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

RESOLVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

63% 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 RESOLVE INC.

18%
largest funder
37%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 63% · 2019 51% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 55% — 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.

How long its funders stay

15% of RESOLVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

RESOLVE INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RESOLVE INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding RESOLVE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.4M on record — $8.4M federal, $150 state.

Federal$8.4M
grants $2.1Mcontracts $6.3M
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$3.3M
  • Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation$2.2M
  • Agency for International Development$1.3M
  • Department of State$782k
  • Department of Health and Human Services$614k
  • Department of Agriculture$177k
State$150
Top programs
  • Registration for Meetings&Conf$150

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

55%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Nightjar · partnership
  • Resolve Enterprises Holdings Inc · corp_trust
  • Regeneration Enterprises Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESOLVE 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 RESOLVE INC?
RESOLVE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,841,960 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($1,937,300). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RESOLVE INC have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $10,841,960 in grants to RESOLVE INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RESOLVE INC?
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,937,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RESOLVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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