Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC
THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,631,922 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,002 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,002 public benefit 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.
- The Libra Foundationshared funders
- American Arbitration Association - Int'L Centre for Dispute Resolution Fndn Incportfolio match
- Chestnut Fundportfolio 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: 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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 broadened from 10 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.4M.
4 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 35% · 2020 29% · 2021 52% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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. Your 43 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Libra Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- American Arbitration Association - Int'L Centre for Dispute Resolution Fndn Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chestnut Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Winthrop Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tabachnick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ron and Susan Krump Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew & Julie Klingenstein Family Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progressportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Janelia Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen M Silberstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Limestone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Policy Instituteportfolio 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 THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION 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 THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC?
- THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,631,922 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $17,631,922 in grants to THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43funders 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