Totals
- Total revenue
- $4,249,465
- Total expenses
- $4,404,207
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,092,977
- Grants paid
- $615,000
- Program service revenue
- $3,144,785
- Investment income
- $11,703
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,065,413
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $549,867
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $515,546
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $3,201,861
- Management and general expenses
- $1,031,534
- Fundraising expenses
- $170,812
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $3,201,861
Program services were 72.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
-
1e · Government grants (contributions)
$1,030,920
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$62,057
-
2a · Program service revenue: CONTRACTED SERVICES
total $3,144,785 · related or exempt $3,144,785
-
3 · Investment income
total $11,703 · excluded $11,703
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $345,000 · program services $345,000
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $270,000 · program services $270,000
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $191,128 · program services $129,967 · management and general $51,605 · fundraising $9,556
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $2,426,335 · program services $1,649,908 · management and general $655,110 · fundraising $121,317
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $619,955 · program services $421,569 · management and general $167,388 · fundraising $30,998
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $261,514 · program services $196,770 · management and general $64,744
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $34,192 · program services $23,251 · management and general $9,232 · fundraising $1,709
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $92,009 · program services $62,567 · management and general $24,842 · fundraising $4,600
-
17 · Travel
total $98,547 · program services $67,012 · management and general $31,535
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $7,679 · management and general $7,679
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $12,970 · program services $8,820 · management and general $3,502 · fundraising $648
-
23 · Insurance
total $5,178 · management and general $5,178
-
24a · Other expenses: TELEPHONE & INTERNET
total $24,827 · program services $16,883 · management and general $6,703 · fundraising $1,241
-
24b · Other expenses: COMPUTER EXPENSES
total $9,207 · program services $6,261 · management and general $2,486 · fundraising $460
-
24c · Other expenses: PAYROLL SERVICE FEES
total $5,666 · program services $3,853 · management and general $1,530 · fundraising $283
-
24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $974,558 · end of year $782,052
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $4,000 · end of year $3,974
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $36,000 · end of year $268,497
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $21,764 · end of year $0
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$38,910
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$28,020
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $23,860 · end of year $10,890
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $78,268 · end of year $160,798
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $220,000 · end of year $302,667
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $91,626 · end of year $86,402
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year -$271,808 · end of year -$262,131
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $942,096 · end of year $777,677
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Public Policy Lab is a nonprofit innovation lab. Our mission is to design policies and programs that help poor and marginalized Americans build better lives. To do that, we partner with government agencies, philanthropies, and NGOs and the communities they serve to develop more satisfying and effective services through ethnographic research, human-centered design, rapid prototyping, and formative evaluation.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Public Policy Lab is a nonprofit innovation lab. Our mission is to design policies and programs that help poor and marginalized Americans build better lives.
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For the National Science Foundation, and in collaboration with a diverse cohort of entrepreneurial innovators from historically underrepresented communities, PPL is leading a project to co-create and pilot a series of tools and resources to meaningfully increase the nationwide involvement of underrepsented groups in accessing federal seed funding to bring their innovations to market.For the Scan Foundation, we are working on the Public Prospective Longitudinal Understanding Study of 65+ Adults (PPLUS65), an initiative to accelerate policy change and health-systems improvement for and with older Americans, especially those from low-income;rural or geographically underserved; and/or Black, Indigenous,and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. In mid-2024, we will launch a public platform to showcase research data collected and outputs produced, with a goal to help policymakers and systems leaders better incorporate older Americans' needs and preferences into social-scale programs.With SUNY's Office of Higher Education in Prison (OHEP)and CUNY's Institute for State and Local Governance (ISLG), we aimed to strengthen the support network that's available to formerly incarcerated students during reentry in New York City, by enhancing collaboration amongst higher education institutions and reentry service providers.
Expenses $3,201,861 · Grants $625,484 · Revenue $3,144,785
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Chelsea MauldinCHELSEA MAULDIN
Exec Dir.
- Total calculated
- $204,295
- From this org
- $191,128
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,167
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $191,128
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,167
- Filer's total
- $204,295
-
Shanti MatthewSHANTI MATTHEW
MANAGING DIR.
- Total calculated
- $162,603
- From this org
- $149,436
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,167
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $149,436
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,167
- Filer's total
- $162,603
-
Rajesh Kottamasu
SP Design and Stra
- Total calculated
- $145,751
- From this org
- $133,293
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $12,458
- Hours/week
- 40
-
John Buckley
Design Strateg Dir
- Total calculated
- $140,420
- From this org
- $127,253
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,167
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Andrew EickmannANDREW EICKMANN
SP for POLICY&RESE
- Total calculated
- $137,654
- From this org
- $137,654
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Deborah MartonDEBORAH MARTON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Bryan BoyerBRYAN BOYER
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John PayneJOHN PAYNE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Miya OsakiMIYA OSAKI
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Keith WhiteKEITH WHITE
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
-
AGRICULTURE POLLUTION INNOVAT
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
AQUASAIC CORPORATION
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
EZANA TECHNOLOGIES LLC
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
KERATIN NAILS LLC
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
LULO VENTURES
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
MAPS BENFIT CORP
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
SHANNYN SMITH LLC
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
$25,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
-
AGATE HEALTH INC
$10,000
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 20 October 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202512939349300516
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