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Bank Policy Institute at a glance

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Bank Policy Institute

Promotes the business of banking and encourages the development of sound banking policy.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.6MPublic Benefit$380kEducation$245kSocial Science$75k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $220,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $225,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Americans for Tax Reform$75,000
Columbia University$50,000
The Heritage Foundation$50,000
Center Forward$35,000
Identity Theft Resource Center$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Committee on Capital Markets Regulation: $50k → 8%Identity Theft Resource Center: $10k → 11%Columbia University: $50k → 17%Cyber Risk Institute: $2.6M → 14%Center Forward: $35k → 6%Program on Int'l Financial Systems: $5k → 8%Columbia University: $50k → 17%Americans for Tax Reform: $75k → 14%Center Forward: $20k → 6%Program on Int'l Financial Systems: $5k → 8%Columbia University: $50k → 17%Americans for Tax Reform: $75k → 14%Columbia University: $50k → 17%Americans for Tax Reform: $50k → 14%Columbia University: $25k → 17%Americans for Tax Reform: $25k → 14%New York University: $35k → 17%National Bankers Association: $25k → 14%Black Economic Alliance: $25k → 14%Fund for Constitutional Gov: $15k → 14%The Heritage Foundation: $50k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

9%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$290k · 3 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$290k
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-29%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AF
    Americans for Tax Reform
    4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue -29%
  • CF
    CENTER FORWARD
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue -44%
  • PO
    PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CR
    Cyber Risk Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $2.6M · revenue -32% · 48% of their budget
  • CO
    COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +51%
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
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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2
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
3
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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4
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
5
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
6
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
7
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
8
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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9
The National Bureau of Asian Research

Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…

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10
International Federation of Accountants

Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…

Education
11
The Conference Board Inc

The Conference Board is the member-driven think tank that delivers trusted insights for what's ahead. We help Members anticipate "What's Ahead," improve their performance, and better serve society. Founded in 1916, we are a non-partisan,…

Community Improvement
12
Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Scientific research in information processing; fostering dev. of nat'l inf. infra.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cyber Risk Institute: $2,610,763 · Community ImprovementCyber Risk InstituteTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $225,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTT: $50,000 · EducationCOMMITTEE …New York University: $35,000 · EducationNew York U…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationAmericans for Tax Reform: $225,000 · OtherBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: $25,000 · OtherCENTER FORWARD: $55,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $15,000 · Public BenefitIDENTITY THEFT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Community Improvement$2,610,763Education$320,000Other$250,000Public Benefit$155,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCyber Risk Institute: $2,610,763 over 1y, 48% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform: $225,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FORWARD: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTT: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIDENTITY THEFT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Securities Industry a…
Securities Industry and Financial Markets AssociationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Bank Policy Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bank Policy Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 12 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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