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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by PUBLIC POLICY LAB.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,718,014
Total expenses
$1,713,920
Contributions and grants received
$162,143
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$1,555,871
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$842,415
Total liabilities, end of year
$458,496
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$383,919
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,136,957
Management and general expenses
$513,327
Fundraising expenses
$63,636
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,136,957

Program services were 66.3% 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)

    $150,000

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $12,143

  • 2a · Program service revenue: CONTRACTED SERVICES

    total $1,555,871 · related or exempt $1,555,871

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0

  • 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 $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 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 $207,471 · program services $141,078 · management and general $58,094 · fundraising $8,299

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,085,260 · program services $737,979 · management and general $303,871 · fundraising $43,410

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $200,064 · program services $136,043 · management and general $56,018 · fundraising $8,003

  • 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 $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $11,886 · program services $3,487 · management and general $8,399

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $37,912 · program services $26,538 · management and general $8,720 · fundraising $2,654

  • 17 · Travel

    total $32,011 · program services $14,623 · management and general $17,388

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $8,426 · management and general $8,426

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $5,166 · program services $3,616 · management and general $1,188 · fundraising $362

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $24,836 · program services $13,429 · management and general $11,407

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROFESSINAL FEES

    total $81,227 · program services $46,712 · management and general $34,515

  • 24b · Other expenses: TELEPHONE & INTERNET

    total $15,606 · program services $10,613 · management and general $4,369 · fundraising $624

  • 24c · Other expenses: PAYROLL SERVICE FEES

    total $2,130 · program services $1,491 · management and general $490 · fundraising $149

  • 24d · Other expenses: COMPUTER EXPENSES

    total $1,925 · program services $1,348 · management and general $442 · fundraising $135

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $184,244 · end of year $604,593

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $12,000 · end of year $8,000

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $307,084 · end of year $199,714

  • 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 $17,881 · end of year $8,713

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $26,561

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $5,166

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $21,395

  • 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 $44,101 · end of year $36,854

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $324,500

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $97,283 · end of year $97,142

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $379,825 · end of year $383,919

Mission and programs · 2022

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.

  • For the Executive Office of the President, the Public Policy Lab partnered with staff from White House's Office of Management and Budget to design policy concepts to measurably improve the experience of Americans dealing with key life events that involve multiple federal agencies. We focused on two life events: facing a sudden financial shock and birth/early childhood for low-income children and their families. Pilots of the concepts are expected to launch in 2023.For the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD), we are launching a two-year effor to redesign the applicant, landlord, and staff experience of using and administering HPD's Section 8 voucher program.For the NYC Administration of Children's Service and the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, PPL researched how families connect with and experience mental health and therapeutic support services, then began to develop strategies to prioritize resource distribution in city agencies, refine referral pathways for families, better engage young clients in therapeutic sessions, and create sustainable feedback channels for families and providers' voices to be heard. We are continuing to support the agencies' management and implementation of these strategies.

    Expenses $1,136,957 · Revenue $1,555,871

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Chelsea Mauldin

    Exec Dir.& Dire

    Total calculated
    $199,393
    From this org
    $187,480
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,913
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,480
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,913
    Filer's total
    $199,393
  • Shanti Mathew

    Managing director

    Total calculated
    $147,923
    From this org
    $136,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,913
    Hours/week
    40
  • John Buckley

    Design Strateg Dir

    Total calculated
    $125,794
    From this org
    $113,881
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,913
    Hours/week
    40
  • Miya Osaki

    Director

    Total calculated
    $20,000
    From this org
    $20,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Gibson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Deborah Marton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bryan Boyer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Payne

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keith White

    Director

    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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
17 July 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202301989349301210

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