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American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
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What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $4,203,677 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,598,862 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,395,185 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $750,000 |
| CENTER FOR POLICING EQUITY | $604,405 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $342,500 |
| THE CAMPBELL COLLABORATION | $250,000 |
| THE URBAN INSTITUTE | $187,712 |
| POVERTY AND RACE RESEARCH ACTION COUNCIL | $176,426 |
| THINKLIVE INC | $172,360 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $161,172 |
| CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND | $158,600 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $149,342 |
| NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION | $127,384 |
| THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION | $112,500 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $100,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE CENTURY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.9M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: IMPACT NETWORK (ZAMBIA) (5&6) · IMPACT NETWORK - PROMOTING EQUALITY IN AFRICAN SCHOOLS (7) · AMPLIFYING WOMENS VOICES (8)
Stated purpose: CASH TRANSFERS- MEXICO, BRAZIL, COLUMBIA (2)
Stated purpose: CASH TRANSFERS- MEXICO, BRAZIL, COLUMBIA (1)
Stated purpose: IMPACTS OF INEQUITY-INDIA (3&4) · MENSTRUAL HEALTH HYGIENE (4)
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 49% of American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCampbell Collaboration5× · 2020–2024 · $970k · revenue +1%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $555k · revenue +19%- KFKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS3× · 2017–2019 · $486k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- NINATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $156k · revenue +100%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHISone grant, 2023 · $136k
- NRNORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USAone grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Century Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds POLICING EQUITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN POLICE REFORM INC ↗
- Who funds Campbell Collaboration ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GASTON & PORTER HEALTH IMPROVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH POLICY FORUM ↗
- Who funds Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Poverty and Race Research Action Council ↗
- Who funds THE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM ↗
- Who funds FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING ↗
- Who funds LIV Recovery Sober Living ↗
- Who funds RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · William T Grant Foundation Inc · The Spencer Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Education Northwest — 44% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Justice System Partners — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.