INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q05

Classification

1200

Street

3200 GREENFIELD RD STE 300

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• DISCOVER: ISPU DISCOVERS NEW DATA THROUGH RIGOROUS RESEARCH. OUR PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING OUR AMERICAN MUSLIM POLL, PROVIDE MUCH-NEEDED INSIGHT INTO ISSUES IMPACTING NOT JUST AMERICANS WHO ARE MUSLIM BUT ALL OF US.

  Expenses $624,641

• EDUCATE: ISPU USES WHAT WE LEARN TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND RAISE AWARENESS. WE REACH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EVERY YEAR THROUGH IN-PERSON AND DIGITAL EDUCATION EVENTS, EXHIBITS, CONVENINGS, MEDIA COVERAGE, AND MORE. TO MULTIPLY OUR IMPACT, WE PARTNER WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS TO INCREASE OUR REACH TO AUDIENCES WHO MAY NOT BE IMMEDIATELY FAMILIAR WITH ISPU.

  Expenses $350,677 · Revenue $17,317

• EQUIP: ISPU EQUIPS JOURNALISTS, POLICYMAKERS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, TEACHERS, ADVOCATES AND OTHERS BY PROVIDING EVIDENCED-BASED RESOURCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO USE IN THEIR OWN WORK. THROUGH WORKSHOPS, TOOLKITS, INFOGRAPHICS, VIDEOS AND MORE, WE HELP CHANGEMAKERS DO THEIR WORK SMARTER AND MORE EFFECTIVELY. EQUIPPING OTHERS MULTIPLIES OUR IMPACT AS THE DATA LIVES ON IN THE WORK OF THOSE WHO JOIN US IN CATALYZING CHANGE.

  Expenses $383,480

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $970,979

  Expenses

  $1,770,938

  Contributions

  $920,095

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,454,023

  Expenses

  $1,319,995

  Contributions

  $1,406,416

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,624,938

  Expenses

  $1,283,279

  Contributions

  $1,604,748

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,665,156

  Expenses

  $1,291,771

  Contributions

  $1,647,191

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,401,317

  Expenses

  $888,722

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,737,296

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,175,594

  Expenses

  $981,041

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,326,994

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $982,659

  Expenses

  $972,888

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,025,832

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,087,414

  Expenses

  $1,029,607

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,005,651

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $868,349

  Expenses

  $1,197,955

  Assets (EOY)

  $954,904

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $739,731

  Expenses

  $1,042,708

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,281,159

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,703,065

  Expenses

  $757,353

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,576,529

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $728,650

  Expenses

  $598,158

  Assets (EOY)

  $629,890

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $923,813

  Expenses

  $564,113

  Assets (EOY)

  $507,569

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $722,305

  Assets (EOY)

  $164,360

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• PILLARS FUND

  $125,000

  2022 · Program Support

• PILLARS FUND

  $125,000

  2023 · Program Support

• PROTEUS FUND INC

  $85,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• PROTEUS FUND INC

  $80,000

  2024 · RIGHTS & JUSTICE

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $75,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $75,000

  2022 · unrestricted support for research

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $75,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $75,000

  2023 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• PROTEUS FUND INC

  $66,700

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $37,000

  2023 · RELIGION

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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