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INNOVATION WORKS INC

EIN 25-1588611 PITTSBURGH, PA

Revenue 2024
$14,610,000
Expenses 2024
$18,491,678

Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
ONE ALLEGHENY SQUARE NOVA TOWER 1 S

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).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MR ROB A RUTENBAR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • DR STEVEN REIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR JOE FERRARA

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MS DONNA MYERS

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR JIMMY WILLIAMS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR WILLIAM SANDERS

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 6/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR TOM JONES

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • MR RON BIANCHINI JR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR STEPHEN CHEN

    BOARD MEMBER (AS OF 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR DAVID ROGER

    BOARD MEMBER (AS OF 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR CARL DALEY

    BOARD MEMBER (AS OF 4/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MR VEN RAJU

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $625,271
    From this org
    $569,820
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,451
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $441,445
    Bonus
    $128,375
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $41,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,831
    Filer's total
    $626,051

  • MR KIRK BOTULA

    VP & CSOO

    Total calculated
    $450,853
    From this org
    $387,267
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $63,586
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $358,589
    Bonus
    $28,678
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $35,656
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,740
    Filer's total
    $458,663

  • MS KELLI MCMURRAY

    SECRETARY & CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $210,011
    From this org
    $179,828
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,183
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,330
    Bonus
    $34,083
    Other
    $415
    Deferred
    $17,733
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,042
    Filer's total
    $210,603

  • MS KELLEY BENSON

    VP HR & INCLUSION

    Total calculated
    $272,655
    From this org
    $228,676
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,979
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,390
    Bonus
    $46,773
    Other
    $513
    Deferred
    $21,934
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,777
    Filer's total
    $273,387

  • MR ROBERT STARZYNSKI

    VP BUSINESS DEV. & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $298,790
    From this org
    $251,690
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $47,100
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,094
    Bonus
    $50,050
    Other
    $546
    Deferred
    $24,462
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,408
    Filer's total
    $299,560

  • MS AFSHAN KHAN

    PORTFOLIO EXECUTIVE

    Total calculated
    $246,986
    From this org
    $198,145
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,841
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,103
    Bonus
    $18,562
    Other
    $480
    Deferred
    $20,540
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,987
    Filer's total
    $247,672

  • MR JEFFERY MCDANIEL

    PORTFOLIO EXECUTIVE

    Total calculated
    $259,392
    From this org
    $215,149
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,243
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $196,587
    Bonus
    $18,562
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,594
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,404
    Filer's total
    $260,147

  • MR AARON TAINTER

    DIRECTOR OF ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $216,364
    From this org
    $197,241
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,123
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,679
    Bonus
    $18,562
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,106
    Nontaxable benefits
    $655
    Filer's total
    $217,002

  • MS DEBORAH WALKER

    SR. LEGAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $240,727
    From this org
    $220,411
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,316
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,520
    Bonus
    $31,416
    Other
    $475
    Deferred
    $20,299
    Nontaxable benefits
    $695
    Filer's total
    $241,405

  • MR KEVIN DOWLING

    PORTFOLIO EXECUTIVE

    Total calculated
    $299,417
    From this org
    $250,939
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,478
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $218,127
    Bonus
    $32,252
    Other
    $560
    Deferred
    $25,637
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,620
    Filer's total
    $300,196

  • MR RICHARD R LUNAK

    FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $143,162
    From this org
    $129,630
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,532
    Hours/week
    10

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $78,001
    Bonus
    $51,629
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,532
    Filer's total
    $143,162

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 — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,610,000
    Expenses
    $18,491,678
    Contributions
    $11,707,979
    Grants paid
    $485,450
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,218,069
    Expenses
    $16,611,674
    Contributions
    $10,671,016
    Grants paid
    $559,460
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,798,085
    Expenses
    $15,866,669
    Contributions
    $12,537,505
    Grants paid
    $446,560

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.