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Bipartisan Policy Center Inc

To drive principled solutions through rigorous analysis, reasoned negotiation, and respectful dialogue.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Public Benefit$3.2MEnvironment$1.1MCivil Rights$90kFood & Nutrition$20kSocial Science$20kHealth$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $343k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ELECTIONS GROUP LLC$1,325,000
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$93,000
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$75,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$62,500
HACKHACKERS INC$62,094
ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC$50,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$49,418
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$43,306
REGENTS OF UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$37,000
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$30,700
THE URBAN INSTITUTE$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $90k → 11%CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $90k → 16%REGENTS OF UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $37k → 14%THE URBAN INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $63k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $10k → 15%CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $31k → 11%FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVESLAND ASSISTANCE FUND: $20k → 13%THE ELECTIONS GROUP LLC: $1.3M → 7%TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $93k → 11%ENERGY INNOVATION REFORM PROJECT: $100k → 7%ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC: $50k → 8%CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE: $83k → 16%THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE ELECTIONS GROUP LLC: $1.3M → 7%AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION: $175k → 14%HACKHACKERS INC: $62k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10k → 14%CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $90k → 14%THIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $145k → 14%THIRD WAY: $83k → 14%THIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $18k → 14%CLEARPATH INC: $250k → 14%THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN ENERGY: $75k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 3 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +558% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$3.0M
$913k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+558%
+37%

Still filing today

67%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsEducationSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TE
    The Elections Group LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.6M
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $173k · revenue +558%
  • TW
    THIRD WAY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $163k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CI
    CLEARPATH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +64%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $175k · revenue +81%
  • EI
    ENERGY INNOVATION REFORM PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -64%

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc

The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…

Science & Tech
3
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…

4
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
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
Energy and Policy Institute

Expose the harms posed by fossil-fuel and monopoly utility interests to ratepayers and the environment.

Environment
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

9
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

10
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
11
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
12
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Small Business Association. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Elections Group LLC — $2,650,000 · OtherThe Elections Group LLC+8 more — $310,200 · Other+8 moreCLEARPATH INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentCLEARPATH INCAMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC — $175,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FLOOD CO…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $173,300 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FO…ENERGY INNOVATION REFORM PROJECT — $100,000 · EnvironmentENERGY INNOVATION…THIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $162,957 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY…CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC — $90,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLIN…THIRD WAY — $83,300 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAYELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsELECTION …The Trustees of Princeton University — $93,000 · EducationHACKS HACKERS — $62,094 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $49,418 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $43,306 · EducationArizona Small Business Association — $90,000 · Community ImprovementFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES — $20,000 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Social Science
Other$2,960,200Environment$698,300Civil Rights$386,257Education$247,818Community Improvement$90,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Social Science$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLEARPATH INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC — $175,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $173,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $162,957 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetENERGY INNOVATION REFORM PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $93,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Small Business Association — $90,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHIRD WAY — $83,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHACKS HACKERS — $62,094 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $49,418 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $43,306 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Bipartisan Policy Center Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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