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American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences

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$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$4.0MEducation$2.9MHealth$1.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.6MSocial Science$958kYouth Development$459kEmployment$342kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $4,203,677, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,598,862 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,395,185 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $192k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
$75,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE CENTURY FOUNDATION$100,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$100,000
NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $35k → 10%AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING: $9k → 10%SHE'S THE FIRST INC: $10k → 17%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 7%FOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $7k → 6%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS: $75k → 16%FUNDS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS: $35k → 16%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $7k → 17%CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA (CWLA): $50k → 14%AYUDA: $50k → 14%AYUDA INC: $46k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.6M · 86% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: IMPACT NETWORK (ZAMBIA) (5&6) · IMPACT NETWORK - PROMOTING EQUALITY IN AFRICAN SCHOOLS (7) · AMPLIFYING WOMENS VOICES (8)

South America$127k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CASH TRANSFERS- MEXICO, BRAZIL, COLUMBIA (2)

North America (Canada and Mexico)$76k · 4% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CASH TRANSFERS- MEXICO, BRAZIL, COLUMBIA (1)

South Asia$55k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: IMPACTS OF INEQUITY-INDIA (3&4) · MENSTRUAL HEALTH HYGIENE (4)

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 49% of American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 0%.

American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Scienceslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 25 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
52

Total granted

$11M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    Campbell Collaboration
    5× · 2020–2024 · $970k · revenue +1%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $555k · revenue +19%
  • KF
    KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $486k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $156k · revenue +100%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS
    one grant, 2023 · $136k
  • NR
    NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA
    one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -24%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
3
The George Washington University

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…

Education
4
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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…

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5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
6
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
11
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Century Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Liv Recovery Sober Living. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/87
Grantees still filing
52/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POLICING EQUITY: $3,660,858 · Civil RightsPOLICING EQUITYTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $158,600 · Civil Rights+7 more: $141,387 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN POLICE REFORM INC: $2,499,068 · Crime & LegalINSTITUTE FOR AMERIC…NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM: $155,829 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL INSTITUTE F…+1 more: $5,460 · Crime & LegalCampbell Collaboration: $970,000 · Social ScienceCampbell Collabor…THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $750,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITU…THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $208,350 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INS…THE URBAN INSTITUTE: $187,712 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITU…Poverty and Race Research Action Council: $176,426 · Social SciencePoverty and Race …SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $452,871 · OtherSAY YES TO EDUCATION…AMERICAN YOUTH POLICY FORUM: $285,750 · OtherAMERICAN YOUTH POLIC…THINKLIVE INC: $172,360 · OtherTHINKLIVE INCNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $161,172 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $135,718 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $127,384 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100,428 · OtherBUILD INC: $99,500 · OtherNORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA: $105,000 · OtherNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $100,000 · OtherDEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING: $96,000 · Other+44 more: $831,435 · Other+44 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $555,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UN…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN …Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness: $272,038 · EducationSociety for R…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $174,902 · EducationAMERICAN UNIV…AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $142,500 · EducationAMERICAN EDUC…THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION: $112,500 · EducationTHE NEA FOUND…+8 more: $158,296 · Education+8 moreKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $486,368 · HealthTHE GASTON & PORTER HEALTH IMPROVEMENT CENTER INC: $328,756 · HealthLIV Recovery Sober Living: $95,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $145,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC: $96,000 · Human ServicesCHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $41,780 · Human Services
Civil Rights$4,135,845Crime & Legal$2,660,357Social Science$2,292,488Other$2,667,618Education$1,740,236Health$930,124Human Services$332,780

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOLICING EQUITY: $3,660,858 over 3y, 10% of budgetCampbell Collaboration: $970,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $750,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $555,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $486,368 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $452,871 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE GASTON & PORTER HEALTH IMPROVEMENT CENTER INC: $328,756 over 3y, 23% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH POLICY FORUM: $285,750 over 2y, 27% of budgetSociety for Research on Educational Effectiveness: $272,038 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $208,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $187,712 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPoverty and Race Research Action Council: $176,426 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $174,902 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $158,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM: $155,829 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $145,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $142,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $127,384 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION: $112,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA: $105,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100,428 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUILD INC: $99,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAYUDA INC: $96,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING: $96,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetLIV Recovery Sober Living: $95,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetRENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC: $87,187 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $74,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $46,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS: $41,667 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $39,968 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $38,476 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE: $32,176 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION NORTHWEST: $27,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $21,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $17,583 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDUSEED: $16,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $14,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Affairs Council: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Annie E Casey Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…Gates FoundationThe William & Flora H…The Ford FoundationTides FoundationWilliam T Grant Found…The Spencer FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…The Joyce FoundationLumina Foundation for…WK Kellogg Foundation
Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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