Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
RESULTS FOR AMERICA
RESULTS FOR AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,168,201 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($34,060,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $156M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Results for America does
Mission
Results for America helps governments find, fund, and implement solutions that measurably improve economic mobility. Rfa's mission is to make investing in what works the "new normal", so that government decision-makers will regularly and effectively use evidence and data to increase the impact of government spending to improve the lives of young people, their families and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Standards of excellence: Results for America works to build the capacity of government decision makers and non-profit leaders to implement evidence-based practices, with the long-term goal of helping them make more effective use of resources, to scale effective solutions, and to achieve better outcomes for their residents. Our standards of excellence - what works cities certification, state standard of excellence, and federal standard of excellence - help governments benchmark their existing data and evidence capacity and provide a roadmap for how to accelerate their progress and deliver better results.
$19,053,654 spentof which $6,577,371 as grants$751,297 earned by the program74% of program spendingImplementation support: rfa helps government decision-makers implement policies, practices and systems around three issues: (1) education: helps states, school districts and schools build and use evidence to improve outcomes for our nation's students, which includes the state education fellows program and edresearch for recovery program. (2) economic mobility: helps local government leaders identify evidence-based approaches to their economic mobility-related challenges through our economic mobility catalog and implement promising ideas through solutions sprints. (3) workforce: helps state and local workforce leaders improve outcomes for job seekers and employers by investing federal, state, and local workforce dollars in evidence-based, results-driven solutions through our state & local workforce fellowship and good jobs and equity project.
$4,835,764 spentof which $50,000 as grants19% of program spendingMovement building: rfa continues to build a movement around evidence-based policymaking with the current goal of getting the majority of "early adopters" of the practices to support and implement evidence-based policies. To accomplish this goal, rfa communicates research and solutions to policy makers at all levels of government and to the general public, through a variety of channels and media.
$1,715,945 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,605,363.
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 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $35M (+90%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of RESULTS FOR AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Michele Jolin
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $32M.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 RESULTS FOR AMERICA’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
RESULTS FOR AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 RESULTS FOR AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 57% · 2019 67% · 2020 34% · 2021 50% · 2022 37% · 2023 36% — 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
40% of RESULTS FOR AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
RESULTS FOR AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
RESULTS FOR AMERICA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like RESULTS FOR AMERICA
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 15 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESULTS FOR AMERICA: 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 RESULTS FOR AMERICA?
- RESULTS FOR AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,168,201 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($34,060,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESULTS FOR AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $156,168,201 in grants to RESULTS FOR AMERICA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESULTS FOR AMERICA?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESULTS FOR AMERICA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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