California · Nonprofit
RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC
RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,237,044 to it, the largest being HOPEWELL FUND ($1,087,044). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Responsible Innovation Labs Inc does
Mission
Building infrastructure that helps high-performing startups drive competitive advantage while advancing human flourishing and avoiding downstream harms to people, communities, and planet.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Responsible Innovation Labs ("RIL") continues to refine its purpose, priorities, and business model. We exist to make responsible innovation ("RI") actionable for startups and their investors. We believe this new mindset and operating norm will help the next generation of companies to win - accelerating transformative innovation for people and planet, building trust in ambitious technologies, and leading responsibly in an increasingly complex world. We have made progress on three fronts: (1) iterating on RIL activities as part of our learning agenda; (2) launching a strategy sprint; and (3) reflecting on lessons learned to inform our go forward strategy. First, we continue to pilot programs and activities. We launched our Responsible AI ("RAI") Framework for startups and VCs in Nov. 2023. This framework led to an ongoing community of practice of VCs who rarely occupy the same learning environment together. The framework was endorsed by 100+ organizations, including more than 50 VCs. We continued publishing our weekly newsletter on AI, policy, and RIL's activities. Our convenings continue to provide a service to investors, operators, and LPs. RIL's nascent attempts to engage LPs…
$422,822 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $422,822.
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 2023 to 2024, from $208k to $1.6M (+661%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Gaurab Bansal
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $353k → $631k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS 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
RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS 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 RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC?
- RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,237,044 to it, the largest being HOPEWELL FUND ($1,087,044). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,237,044 in grants to RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC?
- HOPEWELL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,087,044 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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