Colorado · Nonprofit
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,353,466 to it, the largest being QUADRIVIUM ($8,298,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Unite America Institute Inc does
Mission
The unite america institute, inc. Is a non-profit organization that seeks to encourage broad-based, non-partisan civic engagement, and engages in research and scholarly analysis on important issues of public concern, including the root causes, effects, and potential solutions to political polarization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Programmatic grantmaking:the institute conducts diligence on potential grants that carry out its mission through the support of programs and scholarly research that strengthen the field of nonpartisan organizations working to address political polarization.
$10,745,251 spentof which $8,449,102 as grants82% of program spendingEducational outreach: the institute disseminates nonpartisan educational materials (including books, videos, op-eds, and white papers) explaining public policy issues and analyzing proposed solutions to the media, the public, policymakers, and aligned nonpartisan organizations.
$1,527,349 spent12% of program spendingResearch: the institute conducts its own original research on the root causes, effects, and potential solutions to political polarization. The focus of the research is on primary elections and nonpartisan election refinements such as instant runoff voting and open primaries. The institute also engages in grantmaking to other research institutions and vendors to conduct research on similar topics related to public policy.
$697,167 spent5% of program spendingEvents:the institute hosts events and conferences to disseminate research, engage partners, collaborate on common-sense policy ideas, and cultivate a community of aligned nonpartisan organizations.
$173,641 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,143,408.
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 $3.2M to $10.0M (+214%).
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 UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (30% 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
Nick Troiano
Executive director
Board chair
Charlie Wheelan
Chair (thru 11/24)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $130k → $8.3M.
26 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 54% · 2019 87% · 2020 44% · 2021 63% · 2022 25% · 2023 21% — 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
50% of UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
57% of UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 269 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 269 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE 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 UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC?
- UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,353,466 to it, the largest being QUADRIVIUM ($8,298,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $46,353,466 in grants to UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC?
- QUADRIVIUM is the largest funder on record, with $8,298,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 56 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