New York · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC
THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being THE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $65k
What The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding Inc does
Mission
This entity is an educational organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the impact of intellectual property on individuals and businesses. It tracks attitudes towards patents, copyrights and trademarks, and seeks to convey accurate information and facilitate intellectual property awareness. Cipu provides and education framework for understanding for how ip rights encourage sharing, promote fair competition and create jobs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Organized, produced and held the sixth ip awareness summit at the center for research innovation,northeastern university, boston, produced written reports on ip trends and developments, created and maintained ip information resources, wrote and published information about ip awareness in the media. It has designed, launched and curated ipbasics.org, an ip information portal for educators, creators and students.
$94,833 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,833.
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 2021 to 2022, from $104k to $87k (−17%).
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.
100% of THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Bruce Berman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING 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.
Where its funders are
THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING 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 THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC?
- THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being THE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,000 in grants to THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC?
- THE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UNDERSTANDING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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