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Criterion Institute

The organization's mission is to broaden what matters in our economic decisions by expanding who has power and influence in the work of reinventing the economy through research, training and institutional engagement.

$98k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$120k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Criterion Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$20k100%
FY20172$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Civil Rights$35kCommunity Improvement$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Global Fund for Women Inc$25,00010%
New Mexico Community Capital$20,00011%
Ms Foundation for Women Inc$10,00010%

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About Criterion Institute

How much does Criterion Institute give?
Criterion Institute reported 1 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $98,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Criterion Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Civil Rights (64%), Community Improvement (36%).
Who are Criterion Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Global Fund for Women Inc ($25k), New Mexico Community Capital ($20k), Ms Foundation for Women Inc ($10k).
Does Criterion Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Criterion Institute based?
Criterion Institute is based in CT.

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 3 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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