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Center for the Study of Social Policy

The CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY, inc. (cssp) is a nonprofit public policy, research, and technical assistance organization. Headquartered in washington, dc, cssp works with states and federal policymakers and with communities across the country. Cssp's mission is to achieve a racially, economically, and socially just society in…

$180k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
3
Organizations funded FY2022
67%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 14
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 67% of the organizations Center for the Study of Social Policy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Civil RightsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20223$180k67%
FY20215$129k0%
FY20205$155k80%
FY201910$486k10%
FY20189$545k22%
FY201714$722kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$954kHuman Services$749kCrime & Legal$300kCommunity Improvement$84kPhilanthropy$81kCivil Rights$71kEducation$49k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First 5 Alameda County$351,7973n/a
Choc Foundation$315,00030%
Los Angeles County Children and Families First-Prop 10 Commission$311,6674n/a
Lamoille Family Center Inc$271,97745%
Children's Services Council of Palm Bearch County$192,5004n/a
Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc$111,00032%
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$76,12130%
County of Orange$70,5002n/a
Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc$60,00010%
Northwestern Counseling & Support Services$60,00010%
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All grantees of Center for the Study of Social Policy by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First 5 Alameda County$351,7973n/a
Choc Foundation$315,00030%
Los Angeles County Children and Families First-Prop 10 Commission$311,6674n/a
Lamoille Family Center Inc$271,97745%
Children's Services Council of Palm Bearch County$192,5004n/a
Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc$111,00032%
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$76,12130%
County of Orange$70,5002n/a
Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc$60,00010%
Northwestern Counseling & Support Services$60,00010%
Family Service of Rhode Island Inc$51,00020%
Allegheny County Department of Human Services$50,0001n/a
Denver Early Childhood Council$44,21031%
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette$40,00020%
Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey$40,00010%
Ready for School Ready for Life$40,00028%
Youth Policy Institute of Iowa$30,00012%
Effective Planning & Innovative Communication Inc$30,00010%
Multi-Agency Alliance for Children Inc$25,00010%
First 5 Ventura County$20,8831n/a
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation$10,00010%
University of Miss Medical Center$9,6771n/a
First Steps Kent$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Center for the Study of Social Policy supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChoc Foundation: $315,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLamoille Family Center Inc: $271,977 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetKentucky Youth Advocates Inc: $111,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $76,121 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwestern Counseling & Support Services: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service of Rhode Island Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Early Childhood Council: $44,210 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetReady for School Ready for Life: $40,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetYouth Policy Institute of Iowa: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEffective Planning & Innovative Communication Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMulti-Agency Alliance for Children Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNebraska Children & Families Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Steps Kent: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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 Foundation IncMD16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Center for the Study of Social Policy

How much does Center for the Study of Social Policy give?
Center for the Study of Social Policy reported 3 grants totaling $180,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Center for the Study of Social Policy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (33%), Crime & Legal (13%).
Who are Center for the Study of Social Policy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: First 5 Alameda County ($352k), Choc Foundation ($315k), Los Angeles County Children and Families First-Prop 10 Commission ($312k).
Does Center for the Study of Social Policy fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for the Study of Social Policy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Center for the Study of Social Policy based?
Center for the Study of Social Policy is based in DC.

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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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