Maryland · Nonprofit
THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION
THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,181,298 to it, the largest being Alamance Community & Health Foundation ($1,268,305). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation does
Mission
The harwood institute is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that equips people, organizations, communities, and networks with the tools to bridge divides, build capacity, and tackle shared challenges.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community programsharwood works with local partners across the country to build more equitable, inclusive and hopeful communities rooted in a culture of shared responsibility where community is a common enterprise. This work helps communities come together to strengthen their civic culture while effectively addressing society's growing fault lines.
$1,097,501 spent52% of program spendingConvenings and trainingsthrough various convenings and trainings, harwood teaches people how to turn outward and to unleash a chain reaction of actions to catalyze change in their communities.
$950,972 spent$252,817 earned by the program45% of program spendingResearch programsharwood conducts various research programs to unearth how communities and the country are affected by prevailing conditions, as well as how people are dealing with and responding to challenges.
$53,520 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,101,993.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $3.5M (+83%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 13% · 2019 20% · 2020 4% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% 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.
Board chair
Forrest Moore
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $290k → $812k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION’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
THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 64% · 2019 55% · 2020 98% · 2021 68% · 2022 32% · 2023 59% — 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
20% of THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION?
- THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION (Maryland) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,181,298 to it, the largest being Alamance Community & Health Foundation ($1,268,305). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,181,298 in grants to THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION?
- Alamance Community & Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,268,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 12 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