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CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE RESEARCH

EIN 82-3264419 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$3,225,879
Expenses 2025
$2,934,470

Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S01
Classification
2000
Street
1717 K ST NW STE 900

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

Mission

We work with entrepreneurs, investors, policy experts, governments, humanitarians and new city developers to build a common understanding of charter cities and create relationships which can work toward implementing charter cities. Our goal is to lift tens of millions of people out of poverty by helping incubate dozens of charter cities around the world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Center for Innovative Governance Research is building the future of governance by creating the ecosystem for charter cities.

  • African Urban Lab - In 2025, the Africa Urban Lab (AUL) expanded its work in urban education, research, and policy engagement across Africa. AUL graduated the inaugural cohort of 38 professionals from 10 countries in its Professional Diploma in Urban Development and welcomed a second cohort of 50 students from 15 countries, reflecting strong demand for applied urban training and supported by 33 full scholarships and additional tuition waivers. The organization also strengthened knowledge exchange by hosting two public talks, participating in 11 international conferences and policy forums, and launching the Economics of Greenfield Urban Planning working paper series. In addition, AUL established new institutional initiatives, including the University Coalition on Curricula for Cities (UCCC) to modernize urban planning education in East Africa and the Urban Expansion and the Periphery (UXP) program to support evidence-based planning with municipal partners.

    Expenses $1,306,739 · Grants $314,699

  • Events and Media - The New Cities Summit in Nairobi, Kenya brought together 400+ delegates, 87 speakers, 14 panels, 7 keynotes, 7 Cities Catapult pitches, 5 side events, and 19 sponsors. This event serves as the annual catalyst for the charter cities movement. Additionally, CCI staff spoke at and attended dozens of other events throughout the year to promote charter cities.

    Expenses $726,672 · Grants $89,000 · Revenue $34,954

  • Special Projects - In 2025 CCI worked together with stakeholders from several new city projects including Astra (Kazakhstan), Sherbro Island (Sierra Leonne), and an upcoming project in Antigua. Additionally, CCI authored guidance and provided expert advice to other potential founders and projects.

    Expenses $483,266

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Dr Mark Lutter

    Executive Director, Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $172,916
    From this org
    $151,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,906
    Hours/week
    25

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,010
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,120
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,786
    Filer's total
    $172,916

  • Dan Grossman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WGyude Moore

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Professor Leonard Wantchekon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Nott

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Holstein

    Head of Communications

    Total calculated
    $159,699
    From this org
    $136,158
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,541
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,158
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,327
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,214
    Filer's total
    $159,699

  • John Hoyt

    Head of Operations

    Total calculated
    $123,842
    From this org
    $108,616
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,226
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $3,225,879
    Expenses
    $2,934,470
    Contributions
    $3,069,061
    Grants paid
    $403,699
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,260,681
    Expenses
    $2,680,500
    Contributions
    $1,105,836
    Grants paid
    $88,736
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,384,393
    Expenses
    $2,716,479
    Contributions
    $2,177,173
    Grants paid
    $204,550
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,953,036
    Expenses
    $2,526,647
    Contributions
    $1,805,386
    Grants paid
    $198,486

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
    $6,092,556
    Expenses
    $1,679,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,595,971

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,472,456
    Expenses
    $605,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,090,030

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $147,345
    Expenses
    $108,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,459

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Mark Lutter
Mailing address
636 Newton Pl NW apt 206Washington DC 20010
Website
InnovativeGovernance.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

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Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.