Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Promoting better public understanding, providing factual information and data, and analyzing impacts of government programs and policies that affect the lives of low and moderate income families and individuals at federal and state levels.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 148
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 63
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 42
- Total assets, FY2024
- $172M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Center on Budget and Policy Priorities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 55 | $11M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $11M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $8.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $14M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $13M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $13M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $8.2M | 20% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $7.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy Matters Ohio | $4,291,000 | 8 | 53% |
| The Commonwealth Institute for | $3,855,000 | 8 | 35% |
| Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc | $3,544,000 | 8 | 27% |
| Colorado Fiscal Institute | $3,391,500 | 8 | 49% |
| Childrens Action Alliance Inc | $3,056,000 | 8 | 27% |
| New Jersey Policy Perspective | $2,802,250 | 8 | 36% |
| Center for Public Policy Priorities | $2,716,500 | 8 | 21% |
| Florida Policy Institute Inc | $2,631,000 | 8 | 42% |
| Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc | $2,541,000 | 8 | 33% |
| Oregon Center for Public Policy | $2,487,250 | 8 | 45% |
Show all 112 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 24 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Economic Policy Institute · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · Community Catalyst Inc · The Ford Foundation · Center for Law and Social Policy · WK Kellogg Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · Economic Security Project Inc
How this is measured
Compare Center on Budget and Policy Priorities with peer funders
About Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- How much does Center on Budget and Policy Priorities give?
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported 148 grants totaling $10,726,910 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Center on Budget and Policy Priorities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (52%), Social Science (12%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Center on Budget and Policy Priorities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Policy Matters Ohio ($4.3M), The Commonwealth Institute for ($3.9M), Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc ($3.5M).
- Does Center on Budget and Policy Priorities fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Center on Budget and Policy Priorities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger, Economic Policy Institute.
- Where is Center on Budget and Policy Priorities based?
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is based in DC.
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