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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +558% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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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3
Alliance for Energy Innovation Llc

The mission of the alliance for energy innovation llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national laboratory of the rockies to lead research, innovation, and strategic partnership to deliver integrated solutions for…

Science & Tech
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
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…

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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.

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8
Energy and Policy Institute

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

Environment
9
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
10
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…

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11
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc

Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.

Science & Tech
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc; 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 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. 18 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

The William & Flora H…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% 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, 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 24 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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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home